Sea-Eye said the situation on board the Alan Kurdi was quickly deteriorating.

The ship Alan Kurdi will not be allowed to enter Malta, the government said.

Syria was already at war when Alan Kurdi was born.

Kurdi said he no longer had any desire to continue on his journey to Europe.

Three-year-old Alan Kurdi drowned on September 2nd last year.

I volunteered in Greece, because in another timeline, Alan Kurdi could have been my brother.

In a tweet on Sunday Germany's Europe minister Michael Roth thanked Malta over the Alan Kurdi.

Donnelly said he had spoken to Kurdi since the pictures were published and she was devastated.

Ahmad al-Kurdi, a 26-year-old sports instructor from Hama, lives up to the image Syrians have here.

Kurdi, his elder brother and mother all drowned.

But current Shura member Osama al-Kurdi said: You have to look at the positive side of things.

The Alan Kurdi vessel run by the German charity Sea-Eye rescued the migrants on Wednesday off Libya.

An earlier version referred to the death of Alan Kurdi on a Greek, rather than Turkish beach.

But, like most people, I saw the photographs of little Aylan Kurdi's body washed up on a beach.

Earlier this year an opposition legislator gave Alexander a letter from Tima Kurdi asking him to help her family.

World Russia to Syrian asylum seekers: Get out Posted Safaa Al Kurdi fled Syria for Russia four years ago.