<p>The photographer who shot the heart-wrenching picture showing a Syrian toddler's lifeless body washed ashore Turkey's Aegean coast said she was "petrified", the media reported.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"At that moment, when I saw the three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, I was petrified," said Nilufer Demir, a photo-journalist covering the migrant crisis in Aegean resort town of Bodrum for Turkey's Dogan News Agency (DHA), adding that she had no other option then to do her duty as a journalist. <br /><br />Demir clicked the picture on Wednesday at around 6:00 a.m., on Bodrum's Akyarlar coast of Mugla province, where bodies of migrants washed ashore after two inflatable boats sank, Hurriyet news agency reported.<br /><br />"Three-year-old Aylan Kurdi was lying lifeless face down in the surf, in his red t-shirt and dark blue shorts folded to his waist. The only thing I could do was to make his outcry heard." It was that moment, Demir added, that she took the shot.<br /><br />Demir explained how she noticed another toddler, Aylan Kurdi's brother Galip on the ground, without a life-jacket, just like the other migrants.<br /><br />"Galip was lying 100 metres away from his brother. I approached him this time. I noticed they didn't have any life-jackets on them, any arm floats, anything to help them to float in the water. This image shows how dramatic the incident was," added the reporter.<br /><br />She further added that this issue was beyond the borders of Turkey and has become an international problem, as Bodrum district has turned into a transition point for refugees attempting to flee to Europe.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Turkish security forces in Mugla detained four people suspected of human trafficking resulting in the death of 12 people on Thursday.<br /><br />Sources from the smuggling and organised crime police department said four Syrian citizens had been apprehended for taking refugees from the Turkish coast to Greek islands.<br /><br />In the first five months of 2015, over 42,000 people arrived by sea in Greece, most of them refugees, according to the UN Refugee Agency.</p>
<p>The photographer who shot the heart-wrenching picture showing a Syrian toddler's lifeless body washed ashore Turkey's Aegean coast said she was "petrified", the media reported.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"At that moment, when I saw the three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, I was petrified," said Nilufer Demir, a photo-journalist covering the migrant crisis in Aegean resort town of Bodrum for Turkey's Dogan News Agency (DHA), adding that she had no other option then to do her duty as a journalist. <br /><br />Demir clicked the picture on Wednesday at around 6:00 a.m., on Bodrum's Akyarlar coast of Mugla province, where bodies of migrants washed ashore after two inflatable boats sank, Hurriyet news agency reported.<br /><br />"Three-year-old Aylan Kurdi was lying lifeless face down in the surf, in his red t-shirt and dark blue shorts folded to his waist. The only thing I could do was to make his outcry heard." It was that moment, Demir added, that she took the shot.<br /><br />Demir explained how she noticed another toddler, Aylan Kurdi's brother Galip on the ground, without a life-jacket, just like the other migrants.<br /><br />"Galip was lying 100 metres away from his brother. I approached him this time. I noticed they didn't have any life-jackets on them, any arm floats, anything to help them to float in the water. This image shows how dramatic the incident was," added the reporter.<br /><br />She further added that this issue was beyond the borders of Turkey and has become an international problem, as Bodrum district has turned into a transition point for refugees attempting to flee to Europe.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Turkish security forces in Mugla detained four people suspected of human trafficking resulting in the death of 12 people on Thursday.<br /><br />Sources from the smuggling and organised crime police department said four Syrian citizens had been apprehended for taking refugees from the Turkish coast to Greek islands.<br /><br />In the first five months of 2015, over 42,000 people arrived by sea in Greece, most of them refugees, according to the UN Refugee Agency.</p>