This is what we know so far about the young boy who was found washed up on Bodrum resort beach in Turkey:
The father of a three-year-old boy photographed lying dead on a beach has said all he wants to do is "lie in a grave" with his children.
Abdullah Kurdi, a Kurdish Syrian who also lost another of his sons and his wife, described the moments before he realized his family had drowned.
He said he was forced to take control of the boat after the captain panicked and jumped into the sea in high waves.
"We went into the sea for four minutes and the captain saw that the waves were so high and as he tried to steer the boat we were hit immediately," he said.
"He panicked and dived into the sea and fled.
"I took over and started steering, but the waves were so high that the boat flipped immediately.
Abdullah described the harrowing last moments with his wife and sons:
“I wish I could transfer my breath to them, to breathe life into their bodies again,” he said. “We spent a whole hour holding on to the boat.
My children were still alive. The first one died because of the raging waves. I had to leave him to save my second son, who also drowned. I turned around to find that their mother had drowned as well.”
He added: "My kids were the most beautiful children in the world. Wonderful. They woke me up every morning to play with them and now, they are all gone.
"Now all I want is to lie in a grave next to my wife and children."
“I don't want anything else from this world,” their father, Abdullah, who tried to save his family, told CNN, “Everything I was dreaming of is gone.
After he spoke through a translator to reporters, TV footage showed him wailing in despair.
The local Coast Guard says the Syrian refugees had crowded onto two inflatable boats which were launched in darkness in the hope of reaching the holiday island Kos.
It's a 12-mile boat journey which thousands of Western tourists enjoy each year.
But as these ugly images reveal, Syrian migrants are paying with their lives.
The cheap dinghies carrying a total of 23 people, launched from the Akyarlar area of the Bodrum peninsula, disintegrated in the Mediterranean sea, sending those on board into the water.
The confirmed dead included five children and one woman.
The images have been shared widely on Twitter, especially in Turkey.
Seven people were rescued from the disaster and two reached the shore in life jackets.
A Turkish navy official said hopes were fading of saving the two people still missing.
Every day the world ignores the killing of innocent victims lives all over the world, not just"migrants" in war zones.
Every day in civilized countries no one pays any attention to the tragedies of innocent victims murdered, killed, while the media endlessly spoon feeds the public with reports about the daily stupidity coming out of Donald Trump's mouth, or what Justin Bieber has to say about anything, or the latest Taylor Swift "words of wisdom", and meaningless "news" about the other crap of the day.
"Civilized" society spends its time in denial, a deliberate ignorance of the crisis in Europe, plus the zero value of human life in most places of this sick world.
After all, these are not YOUR families, it can never happen to YOU, fed by the denial that is needed to remove any feelings about how far down our world has sunk.
There is nothing but cold blooded indifference by YOU in removing these images of all victims completely from your mind.
In this death of 3 years old Aylan Kurdi, dehumanizing words readily dismiss him and others as "migrants", somehow that means this child is not as important as your children, not a human being, and that his family is unlike yours.
Wrong!!!!
The innocent victims in your town, country, elsewhere in this world are sons, daughters, fathers and mothers, your neighbors.
They are that dead boy.
Your coldness and acceptance of the killing of innocent human victims all over the world, in your community, your country, whatever your reasons are that create ignorance, lack of compassion, not even a thought about those less fortunate than you, all are the excuses of cowards.
YOU are LOST in your cruelty of ignorance, self denial, self indulgence, and inhumanity to the suffering of others.
Do not look at these pictures.
Things could be done to avoid the killing of innocent victims in the future, but those things won’t be done.
YOU will keep forgetting, erasing the lives of others as cheap because they are not you, and no-one will take care of reducing the suffering in our world.
YOUR response will be to turn away when the body of a child washes up on a distant shore, or to ignore those innocent victims, their families, in your own community who are killed by injustice, indifference, negligence, and the reality that no one cares.
Rest in Peace little one, Aylan Kurdi such a waste of a short life.
My sincere condolences to Humanity for YOU are not human.
