The two little boys and their mother who died as they fled war and terror have been buried in their native Syria.
Earlier today Abdullah Kurdi took the bodies of his children Aylan, 3, Galip, 5, and wife Rehan, 35, back to the Syrian Kurdish region they fled to bury them in their hometown of Kobani.
The distraught 40-year-old wept as their bodies were buried alongside each other in the "Martyrs' Ceremony" in the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, near at the border with Turkey.
Speaking at the border crossing, Kurdi said he hoped the death of his family would encourage Arab states to help Syrian refugees.
"I want from Arab governments - not European countries - to see (what happened to) my children, and because of them to help people," he said in footage posted online by a local radio station.
The haunting image of the man's three-year-old son, Aylan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish beach focused the world's attention on the wave of migration fuelled by war and deprivation.
A convoy of vehicles crossed into Kobani from the Turkish border town of Suruc on Friday.
Politicians from Turkey accompanied Abdullah Kurdi to Kobani.
Journalists and well-wishers were stopped at a check-point just over a mile from the border.
Kurd-held Kobane has seen some of the fiercest fighting of the war. Militias backed by US-led Coalition airstrikes held off ISIS' savage assault.
Aylan drowned along with his five-year-old brother Galip and his mother, Rehan while trying to reach the island of Kos.
Meanwhile, Turkish authorities stopped 57 people trying to cross to the Greek island of Kos last night, as migrants trying to reach Europe remained undeterred by the drowning of two toddlers this week on the same route.
The deaths have done little to deter migrants, many refugees from war in the Middle East, from taking to small boats for the 4 km (2 mile) nocturnal crossing to Kos from Bodrum.
Coastguards halted three boats carrying 57 Syrians, Afghans and Pakistanis late on Thursday, impounding the vessels and taking the passengers back to Turkey, where they spent the night sleeping under blankets in the yard of the coastguard building.
Those with papers identifying where they came from will be deported, other than to Syria, whilst the rest will stay in Turkey, an officer for the Bodrum coastguard told Reuters.
