ADANA, Turkey
Three organizers of the human trafficking ring which led to the death of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi, in a case which made headlines worldwide, were sentenced in Turkey Friday to 125 years in prison each.
The 2015 death of 3-year-old Kurdi, and five other refugees who shared a boat on the Aegean with him, shocked the international community and came to symbolize the plight of desperate Syrian refugees.
The traffickers, fugitives from justice, had been captured by Turkish security forces this week in the southern province of Adana.
The lifeless body of Kurdi – one of 14 Syrian