Steven Seagal film to tell story of Syrian toddler who drowned in Mediterranean

Action star involved in Aylan Baby, about the three-year-old whose death widened awareness of the migrant crisis

The tragic death of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian toddler who drowned off the Turkish coast in 2015, is to be made into a movie.

Aylan Baby has begun shooting in the southwest of the country, where the child's body was found. Subsequent photographs highlighted the plight of migrants who die in the Mediterranean while trying to seek asylum in Europe.