Ten years after Alan Kurdi’s photo prompted an outpouring, experts fear a loss of empathy for refugees

The image of Alan Kurdi lying face-down on a beach near the fashionable Turkish resort of Bodrum became a shocking symbol of the plight of refugees.

The photo of the body of a two-year-old Syrian boy, who drowned during his family’s tragic quest for a new life, led to an outpouring of grief around the world when it was published 10 years ago on Tuesday.

The image of Alan Kurdi lying face down on a beach near the fashionable Turkish resort of Bodrum became a shocking symbol of the plight of refugees, awakening the world to the dangers desperate people were willing to confront to find sanctuary.

“The photo of Alan Kurdi’s small, lifeless body on a beach made Canadians weep and open their wallets and their homes to Syrian refugees in the tens of thousands,” said Fen Osler Hampson, a profes