Heartbreaking images! Artists pay tribute to Syrian toddler who drowned off Turkey coast

A look at the poignant tribute to the Syrian boy who died drowning.

Updated: September 4, 2015 5:13 PM IST

By Shweta Parande

Heartbreaking images! Artists pay tribute to Syrian toddler who drowned off Turkey coast

If the picture of the Syrian toddler who drowned off the Turkey coast broke your heart, like everyone else’s, these images in tribute to the three-year-old will break it even more. That photo wastaken by Nilufer Demir. Artists around the world shared their version of the now iconic image of Aylan Kurdi lying lifeless on the beach in Turkey.

Aylan’s elder brother Galip and mother also drowned when their boat capsized, as they were trying to migrate from Kobane, Syria to Europe. The family took this step when their efforts to gain refugee status in Canada failed, but some reports now say that they never applied to go to the north American country. Take a look at the paintings shared by the artists on social media:

Aylan’s father told CNN, “Everything I was dreaming of is gone. I want to bury my children and sit beside them until I die.”

Heartwrenching, is what these images are!

Earlier, artists around the globe had similarly shared their interpretations of the Charlie Hebdo assassination in Paris in 2014.

Now, Egyptian billionaire and CEO of Orascom TMT, Naguib Sawiris has expressed interest in buying an island in the Mediterranean for Syrian refugees.

The incident in Syria has brought to light the plight of the people their in the wake of terror activities and war of the Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Heartbreaking images! Artists pay tribute to Syrian toddler who drowned off Turkey coast

RIP, Aylan, Galip and their mother, as also the many other who died with them. Condolences to the family members.

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