Christian Billionaire Seeking to Buy Entire Island for Refugees, Name it After Drowned Syrian Boy

By Published on September 15, 2015

Coptic Christian billionaire businessman Naguib Sawiris has said that he’s seeking to buy an island from either Greece or Turkey and use it to help thousands of refugees fleeing the Middle East. Sawiris said he’ll name the island after Aylan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian boy whose picture lying face-down on a beach was shared around the world.

“I actually must admit, it’s the picture of Aylan that woke me up,” Sawiris told CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria in an interview Sunday.

“It was a very touching picture. In addition to that, the way these pictures were coming out of Hungary, the way these refugees were being treated by the authorities there, and being, you know, beaten and put into the trains and buses, I mean it was just too much.”

Over the past few years thousands of migrants, hailing from various countries in the Middle East and Africa, have died during boating journeys to Europe, often in very dangerous conditions.

Kurdi drowned, along with other members of his family, in September. His body washed ashore on a Turkish beach after an overcrowded dingy trying to reach the Greek island of Kos sank β€” claiming the lives of another 11 refugees, including the boy’s 5-year-old brother, Galip.

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