Katie Hopkins slammed for ‘vile’ Twitter attack on Alan Kurdi's father

The controversial star hit out at Abdullah al-Kurdi after his interview on the BBC 
Backlash: Katie Hopkins has been criticised for her latest tweet
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Jennifer Ruby2 September 2016
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Katie Hopkins has been slammed by Twitter followers after criticising Abdullah al-Kurdi on the anniversary of his family’s death.

The controversial star lashed out at the father, whose wife Rehan and two sons Galip and Alan Kurdi drowned last year, after he appeared on the BBC on Friday morning.

Following the interview, in which Kurdi urged Europe to keep its doors open to refugees, Hopkins tweeted:

“Lectured on caring for migrants by a man who left his wife & child at the bottom of the Med? No thank you Mr Kurdi.”

One follower slammed Hopkins as a “cold hearted, nasty, despicable b****”, while another claimed that she “only says controversial things to get attention.”

“Vile, disgusting,heartless woman, God forbid you be in a war torn country trying to survive each day like it's your last,” wrote another.

A number of people backed the former Apprentice star, with one person writing: “She's entitled to an opinion, as are the rest of us. She's vocal about it instead of remaining quiet. X”

Kurdi, who now lives in northern Iraq, has given a series of interview one year after sons Alan, 3, and Galip, 5, and their mother Rehan, 35, drowned when their boat over-turned en route from Syria to the Greek island of Kos.

Speaking to the BBC, he said: “Every day I think of them but today I felt as though they had come to me and slept with me. This makes me sad again.

Tragedy: a police officer carries the body of Alan Kurdi off a Turkish beach (AP)
Nilufer Demir/Dogan News Agency/AP

“At first the world was anxious to help the refugees. But this did not even last a month. In fact the situation got worse. The war has escalated and more people are leaving.

"I hope that all the leaders of the world can try and do good and stop the wars, so that the people can go back to normal life.”

The body of three-year-old Alan, washed up on a Turkish beach a year ago, became a worldwide symbol of the refugee crisis.

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