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Alan Kurdi

The latest news and comment on Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea during the Syrian refugee crisis'

June 2019

  • Alan Kurdi<br>This handout photo courtesy of Tima Kurdi shows a photo of Alan Kurdi.  The body of 3-year-old Syrian Alan Kurdi was found on a Turkish beach after the small rubber boat he, his 5-year old brother Galib and their mother, Rehan, were in capsized during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece. The family stated that the spelling of the boys’ names had been changed by Turkish authorities to Aylan and Galip, but were in fact spelled as Alan and Galib.  (Photo courtesy of Tima Kurdi /The Canadian Press via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

    Steven Seagal film to tell story of Syrian toddler who drowned in Mediterranean

    Action star involved in Aylan Baby, about the three-year-old whose death widened awareness of the migrant crisis

December 2018

  • Ben Smoke

    The Christmas Channel crossings show how cruelly Britain treats refugees

    Ben Smoke
    We have a duty to help desperate migrants, not vilify them, says Stansted 15 activist Ben Smoke

May 2018

  • Migrants are seen in a boat as they are rescued by Libyan coast guards in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, January 15, 2018. Picture taken January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Hani Amara

    Book of the day
    The Displaced; Migrant Brothers; Lights in the Distance – reviews

    Three powerful, conscience-stirring books use personal testimony to help us see the refugee crisis through the eyes of its victims

September 2017

  • A Turkish police officer carries the body of Alan Kurdi.

    8,500 people lost in Mediterranean since death of three-year-old Alan Kurdi

    Author Khaled Hosseini responds to images of Syrian boy washed ashore by writing short story animated in virtual reality

April 2017

  • Vanessa Redgrave at last year’s 69th Cannes film festival.

    Vanessa Redgrave makes directorial debut with film about refugee crisis

    Documentary titled Sea Sorrow draws parallels between Shakespeare’s Tempest and the tragic story of Syrian three-year-old Alan Kurdi

January 2017

  • Former soldier Rob Lawrie

    Man who tried to smuggle child refugee into UK: 'I'd never do it again. Well ... '

    Rob Lawrie, arrested at the Calais border when officers found an Afghan girl in his van, explains how his life has changed

December 2016

  • Graeme, Tima Jurdi, Bruno, Maria, Meg Remy, Garry Woods, Vania and Uriel Jelin

    'I'm moving to Canada': the cops, pop stars and athletes who made good on the threat

    From the female squash champion fleeing the Taliban, to the gay popstar who became a hit back in macho Brazil, it’s often Canada’s newcomers who can tell its most dramatic stories

October 2016

  • Hugh Muir

    As a nation would we ever sink so low as to check refugees’ teeth?

    Hugh Muir
  • Jacques Hamel

    Pope Francis sets French priest murdered by Isis on path to sainthood

September 2016

  • After Alan

    Reshaping humanitarian action
    Seven sketches inspired by Athens' refugee squats – in pictures

  • A police officer carries the lifeless body of Alan Kurdi

    The death of Alan Kurdi: one year on, compassion towards refugees fades

March 2016

  • Alan Kurdi

    Alan Kurdi: Turkish court jails pair over Syrian toddler's death

    Men convicted of trafficking but acquitted of causing five deaths including that of child whose washed-up body shocked world

January 2016

  • A special edition of Charlie Hebdo, to mark the one-year anniversary of the jihadist attack. The latest edition features a cartoon with a controversial cartoon of the drowned child Alan Kurdi.

    Charlie Hebdo cartoon depicting drowned child Alan Kurdi sparks racism debate

    Satirical magazine includes cartoon suggesting Kurdi might have grown up to be a sexual abuser

December 2015

  • Tima Kurdi

    Stories from the refugee crisis
    Stories of 2015: how Alan Kurdi's death changed the world

    The aunt of the Syrian boy photographed lying dead on a Turkish beach and the policeman who found him speak about the image and the plight of refugees
  • Refugees wait in Istanbul for buses to the Turkish-Greek border

    The Guardian view on our Christmas refugees appeal: readers offer a better conversation

    Editorial: More than £1.5m has been raised in the most successful fundraiser in the paper’s history. But charity alone can never be enough
    • Alan Kurdi’s father to give Channel 4 Christmas Day message

    • Alan Kurdi image appeared on 20m screens in just 12 hours

    • Europe may turn its back on refugees this winter. But our rescuers won’t

      Christopher Catrambone

November 2015

  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    Images of drowned boy made only a fleeting change to refugee reporting

    Roy Greenslade
    Study of newspapers across Europe reveals that initial press sympathy after Alan Kurdi’s death rapidly reverted to type within a week

September 2015

  • Tim Farron.

    Farron accuses Cameron of getting 'maximum headlines' from Alan Kurdi tragedy – video

    The Liberal Democrat leader accuses the PM of trying to get ‘maximum headlines’ out of the story of the three-year-old Syrian refugee who was pictured drowned on a beach in Turkey
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