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Two-year-old Syrian-Kurdish refugee Alan Kurdi (top left) drowned with his brother and mother while trying to reach Europe in 2015 and (main) Sea Eye's ship the Alan Kurdi
[Sea Eye]
RELATIVES of the Syrian toddler whose body was photographed lying face down on a Turkish beach in 2015 have urged the Italian government to free two NGO refugee rescue ships, a month after they were seized.
The photograph of two-year-old Alan Kurdi became one of the defining images of the so-called “refugee crisis” that year and led to a brief period of concern for people attempting to cross into Europe.
An NGO refugee rescue ship that bears the boy’s name was detained by Italian port authorities on May 6 in Sicily, after it rescued 150 people off the coast of warn-torn Libya over Easter.
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