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Three human traffickers have each been sentenced to 125 years behind bars for the death of Aylan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian boy who became a symbol of the refugee crisis, according to Turkish state media.

Photos of the tragic youngster’s lifeless body lying facedown on a Turkish beach — as well as a local official tenderly removing him from the shore — triggered an international outcry in 2015.

The images went viral on social media with the Turkish hashtag “KiyiyaVuraninsanlik” — “humanity washed ashore.”

Aylan, also known as Alan, drowned alongside his 5-year-old brother, Galip, and their mother, Rehen, in a doomed boat while trying to sneak into Greece.

The three were among more than a dozen migrants in a boat fleeing the northern Syrian town of Kobani, where ISIS was engaged in a war with Kurds.

According to Turkish authorities, the migrants had set off from the Bodrum peninsula in Turkey for the Greek island of Kos. Aylan, his brother and mother were among 12 people whose bodies were found after the boats sank — while others managed to get to safety, some clutching life jackets.

Turkish authorities last week finally arrested the three ringleaders, who were deemed “fugitives from justice” after fleeing their initial trial, according to state news agency Anadolu.

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Abdullah Ghaleb Kurdi shows a picture on his phone of his son Alan Kurdi.
Abdullah Ghaleb Kurdi shows a picture on his phone of his son Alan Kurdi.REUTERS
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A Turkish police officer carries Aylan Shenu's body off the shores in Bodrum.
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The trio — not identified in the report — were captured by Turkish security forces in the southern province of Adana, the agency said. They were each sentenced to 125 years in prison for “killing with eventual intent” in Bodrum High Criminal Court in Mugla, according to Anadolu.

Turkey’s Aegean provinces have seen waves of refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war for Greece and Europe, Anadolu reported. A large number have died making the perilous journey.

Aylan, Galip and their mother were later returned to Kobani, where they were buried in September 2015.

Their grieving father, Abdullah Kurdi, vowed after the burials to remain in the family’s war-torn hometown.

“He only wanted to go to Europe for the sake of his children,” a relative said. “Now that they are dead, he wants to stay here in Kobani next to them.”

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