Alan Kurdi’s aunt: ‘My dead nephew’s picture saved thousands of lives’
Why do BBC journalists insist on changing the name of Aylan Kurdi to Alan Kurdi? Are they trying desperately to make the name more familiar, less ‘alien’ to Brits so that we feel more empathy for the boy? Does the BBC really think nobody feels any empathy and that they have to manipulate us by disrespecting and exploiting the death of a child in order to make us feel anything?
The BBC journo even changes the name when written by others as ‘Aylan’….
Peter Bouckaert, Emergencies Director of Human Rights Watch, who wrote a blog post on why he felt it was justified to share the picture. “But in this case, I thought it was really important to share this image of a drowned boy because two Alan Kurdis are drowning every day on this journey.”
Here is what Bouckaert wrote…
I thought long and hard before I retweeted the photo of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi.
Not the first time the BBC has tried to manipulate the truth in order to persuade its readers of something…as when BBC reporters altered the name of the father of a child killed in Gaza from Jihad to Jehad….and of course claimed that he was killed by Israeli bombs when the truth was he was killed by an Hamas rocket.
The kid died because of the greed of his father.
He was dragged from a perfectly safe country by a father who was commiting a criminal act by illegally entering a country solely to scrounge off other taxpayers hard earned wages.
The death of a child is sad but his father should be charged with manslaughter.
It was true that his father Abdul No Teeth wanted to get to Europe purely to scrounge free dental implants!
It was disgusting. They had a flat and he even had a job in Turkey and he forced his wife who couldnt swim and was terrified and his children to get into the dangerous boat.
Vile vile man!
Bizarre that The BBC changed his name though. Shows that their respect for multikulti is blown to the wind when pursuing their agenda.
Vile?
No, merely a normal Muzzie.
the child was lucky he drowned, if he had survived he would have been dressed in traditional Muslim attire and instructed to mingle with the crowds, whereupon his traditional Islamic garments would have exploded.
By his loving family.
Muzzies, don’t you just love them? Well I do, when they are dead.
Yes, I suppose he was lucky he drowned. If not already done he would have had his genitals mutilated (circumcision). I also understood that his father applied to enter Canada but the Canadians claim they have no record of his application.
“the child was lucky he drowned”
Keep up the good work ‘delenda’; always a joy.
I Believe we are straying off the point folks. I suppose Aylan (call me Alan) was certainly unlucky to have a selfish, greedy, single minded toe rag for a father, but lucky to die – probably not!
The point of the post was that there are no depths the BBC will not sink to when it comes to photoshopping the truth to match its own sickly sacharin dipped version of the migrant crisis.
We all get at angry at this shit but I do believe we also have a resposibility not to try and not give the BBC and its acolytes the ammunition it needs to brand us all as manic racists which is what they want.
No ‘probably’ about it.
But a heaven sent opportunity for the night shift to log a hit.
Like it was meant.
I even clicked like on Zero’s post, despite him being a BBC employed idiot.
Given it is a BBC video, I thought this a possibly balanced piece in complement:
Now you are falling into the trap of defining Islam as a race.
However I do take your point.
But until IslamicAl-Beeb start to show, even faux, concerns that “White lives matter”, which will probably be after hell has frozen over, I shall feel free to demonstrate as little concern for Muslim lives as Muslims do.
The site owners can always email me and make any points they wish.
I thought there was some evidence that the whole story was a fabrication. I don’t have links available but there has been much discussion on this including on this site. It certainly wouldn’t surprise me.
The strangest thing is, I have a photo of what appears to be young Alyan in the arms of a Serbian police officer (several days after his alleged drowning) on Sept 9th taken by no less than a BBC correspondent. I do not have a URL for the photo or else I would post it on here. I sent said photo to various MSM only to find several days after, all reference of refugees were dropped completely and have been pretty much since. I took a screenshot grab of the photo which has since been erased from the internet, or at least, I can’t find it. How does one post a photo on here when it does not have a URL attached to it?
And Grant, when (and if) you see the photo I have, it really is a jaw dropping moment.
Sign up to a photo sharing website such as Flicr (others are available) add your photo and copy the URL.
Alternately you can Tweet the picture witin a Tweet, right click on it once Tweeted and that’ll also give you a URL to post here…
Or if you are on Facebook put it on your page – you can also make it private, then copy the URL.
Old bloke. I lived in Turkey for 2 years and never saw a uniform like that. The vest is in Turkish although I can’t make out the words clearly. I have never seen arm badges like that on any police , jandarma or military in Turkey. Neither have I ever seen a green beret.
(1) The words are “JANDARMA OLAY YERİ İNCELEME”.
(2) You can’t see this in the actual photo at the top of Alan’s post …
(3) … but other related images do show it, i.e. when the official turns his back to camera.
(4) It means “GENDARMERIE INCIDENT SCENE INVESTIGATION”.
(5) This photo has been truncated, as others show people fishing (top right) and another official (to the right).
(6) Google “Aylan Kurdi photo” for a sample of the ways in which the basic image was used for propaganda.
(7) Note the orchestrated media reaction (e.g. John Humphrys on Radio 4’s Today said it changed everything).
Mustapha, thanks, I do now recall that some Jandarma wear green berets. The whole thing still seems “fishy” and I don’t mean the fishermen !
Grant, the photo I have is of what appears to be young Alyan crossing the Serbian border and in a photo shoot, in the arms of a Serbian police office. Obviously in what appears to be a staged photo but one taken on the 9th September several days after the drowning of said Alyan. If someone can tell me how to post the photo on here, I will.
It was a Pallywood style photoshopped con so beloved by the BBC.
If you can translate this from Italian it shows that the pictures were of two different people deliberately put into the most provocative positions.
But hey, it did get the looney left progressives of their benefit funded arses for a while to jump up and down with fake moral outrage.
http://focalizalaatencion.com/2015/09/09/para-la-gente-que-dice-que-el-pequeno-aylan-fue-movido-de-sitio-no-te-creas-este-bulo/
For what it’s worth, the Spanish-language site that you link seems to be debunking what it sees as myths about the immigrants and refugees. At the foot, there are three which it provides links for, one being the claim that some people rejected food because of the Red Cross mark on the boxes. The sentence in your link means: “For those people who say that little Aylan was re-positioned, don’t go believing this false rumour”; ‘bulo’ means ‘hoax’ or ‘canard’ or ‘[false] rumour’. It says that his brother died there too and had red shoes, whereas Aylan’s were black. It claims that no-one re-positioned any body.
Old Bloke, Sorry I can’t help you with the posting but I am sure someone here can . I have never been to Serbia but the uniform looks more Serbian and certainly not Turkish. I have looked at other photos of the event. Almost all Turkish uniforms would have a small Turkish flag on the front although I have been unable to find a “full frontal” photo.
What is also strange is that this seems to be “one off”. I would have expected similar reports and photos given the scale of the numbers involved. It is almost as if the protaganists have said ” Got the publicity, job done, lets move on “. I may be wrong but my feeling is that this story is not genuine. It has been debunked in great detail elsewhere. I guess google will give the links.
There was indeed a notable lack of attention given to the father’s culpability in the press, but I am not surprised. The message given out at the time by almost all the media, supporting the refugees was so strong – almost a moral imperative. Given that, and the way these kind of stories acquire a life of their own, quite separated from reality (re: I ain’t no Muslin bruv), it would have required a very courageous journalist or editor to criticise the father with that image on every front page. However ghoulishly it was acquired.
The BBC, who claim to be in the business of public service broadcasting, occupy a sort of faux moral high ground, in which their own political agenda overrides the real moral high ground of the truth. So once again, no surprise.
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“overrides the real moral high ground of the truth”
Tell me it is not true, this is not their real position, surely?
Sorry for calling you Shirley.
No, it is not true, “facts are sacred”, I read this somewhere, sometime in the past.
Although attitudes have changed since 1922.
Yes, Old Artist, for the BBC and the Left the political agenda does indeed override objective truth.
One of many examples of this attitude that has stuck with me was a frank admission by Jeremy Hardy on Radio 4’s “News Quiz” (not so long ago, but back in the pre-Miles-Jupp Sandi Toksvig era) that what he had said about a Tory was not true but that it was ok because of the higher truth that Tories were scum / shits / bastards / whatever.
Many ordinary people would rightly question the father’s motives that saw his son being put at risk and subsequently dying, in order to gain a few more benefits and welfare payments than were available in Turkey.
This angle of course has been totally ignored by Al-Beeb who constantly go for the low-brow ‘human interest’ side.
But then again, after Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall, al Beeb’s ‘duty of care’ track record by grown ups on young people isn’t that great, so maybe they are just culturally unable to recognise such a moral and ethical deficiency.
BBCde, it is clearly their position, but not their stated position. But unfortunately with such entrenched groupthink, combined with their usual patronising arrogance towards their viewers/listeners I doubt that they can even recognise the hypocrisy.
http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Rk0_voZsbJd3cbp8ZsALHg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9Mzc3O2lsPXBsYW5lO3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT03NTt3PTY3MA–/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/6dd8dfa069beeb809e7bf8e79bd26bccdff0d41d.jpg
Note the length and cut of hair, colour of top, short sleeves, short trousers, length of short trousers etc. The only thing missing is a picture of the shoes the boy is wearing.
For once in a blue moon, we must support the BBC and say that they got the name right – it’s Alan, not Aylan.
Alan’s aunt Tima confirmed the name Alan in an interview; Aylan was a “Turkification” of the name in early reports.
Many folk are still grasping at wild speculation surrounding the death of this boy, without reading the facts.
There are stories to be told, indeed, but let them be based on the evidence, please.
Our original analysis of Alan’s death is available at:
http://wisermonkeys.uk/boyonbeach.html
This is ridiculous. Alyan ( not Aylan. There is no such name in Arabic or Turkish ) is an Islamic name from the Koran ! Aunty Tima, who is probably illiterate, is getting her briefings confused !
Those who gain power and control over the masses are not bothered about the suffering and death of the ‘little people’. The visual image of a dead child is, to them, rather like company branding – just an opportune way of manipulating the minds and emotions of the masses. If only one could watch the moment when Maurice Strong met his maker. Was he welcomed in or cast out?