A Turkish court on Friday sentenced two Syrians to four years in jail over the drowning of five people including toddler Aylan Kurdi, the image of whose dead body sparked global sympathy last September over the fate of migrants, Dogan news agency said.
Since Aylan's death, the European Union has faced a growing crisis over how to deal with hundreds of thousands of migrants from Syria and elsewhere, a crisis that threatens to tear the 28-nation bloc apart.
Praised for taking in some 2.5 million refugees from Syria's five-year civil war, Turkey - a candidate for EU membership - is under pressure to stop migrants making perilous onward journeys to Europe.