A court has sentenced two Syrian smugglers to four years and two months each in prison over the death of 3-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi and four other people, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported Friday.
The court, in the Aegean resort of Bodrum, convicted the two of human trafficking but acquitted them of the charge of causing the deaths through deliberate negligence, the agency said.
The image of the boy's body lying face down on a Turkish beach focused world attention on the refugee crisis, graphically illustrating the magnitude of the migrants' suffering.
