Powerful Photo of a Young Syrian Refugee

Thousands of Syrian Kurds flee to Turkey.

ByABC News
September 25, 2014, 5:28 PM
A Syrian Kurdish child cries as Turkish police search families' bags after they crossed the border between Syria and Turkey, Sept. 23, 2014.
A Syrian Kurdish child cries as Turkish police search families' bags after they crossed the border between Syria and Turkey, Sept. 23, 2014.
Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

— -- The photo alone will break your heart.

A powerful image taken this week shows a young Syrian Kurdish child crying as Turkish police search the bags of people crossing the border, fleeing unrest in Syria.

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Viewers instantly connected with the photo, calling it tear-jerking, and moving. Tens of thousands of Syrians have flooded into Turkey in an attempt to escape brutal attacks by ISIS. More than 1 million Syrians have already fled to Turkey in the past few years.

Meanwhile, the United States is also getting involved, launching airstrikes into Syria targeting the extremists.

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