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Alan Kurdi, a three old boy from Syria, was seen lying dead on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea - on a beach in Turkey, in September 2015. It made the greatest news of the time; whole world became aware and sensitized; a fire caught all over the world regarding the fate of humanity on the earth. The dead boy was photographed by a Turkish photo-journalist Nilufer Demir. The fully dressed boy was lying on the beach with his face down to the ground meeting the edge of the sea water; it appeared as if the boy fell asleep after getting extremely exhausted, and he was uncared, abandoned; the photograph was able to awaken the conscience of humans worldwide. The dead Alan Kurdi through his photograph symbolized the plight of the people in Syria; he became a symbol of the refugees in the hands of the torrents like ISIS.