So Aylan Kurdi's picture did make a difference to the refugee debate

 National newspapers pick up the arguments the day after the images were published of the lifeless little boy washed up on a Turkish beach

And it comes to pass that the photograph of a boy’s body washed up on a Turkish beach has made a difference to the debate about the refugee crisis.
The Times’s editorial said: “Images of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, dead on a Turkish beach, have prompted a tardy wave of public anger at Britain’s perceived bystander status.”
The newspaper went on to argue that “the UK must take more Syrian refugees.” But resettling people “is a fraction of the battle.” The real problem, said the paper, lies in the Middle East’s “failed states”.