Turkey Sentences Human Traffickers to Four Years in Prison

Turkey has sentenced two Syrians to four years in prison over the death of a toddler and his family who drowned en route to Turkey. Turkish state media said Friday the Syrians - Muwafaka Alabash and Asem Alfrhad - were convicted of human trafficking and given four years and two months in prison. Among the refugees who drowned was 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, a toddler who became a visual symbol of the refugee crisis when media published a photograph of his tiny, lifeless body washed up on a...

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