Today in the Turkish city of Istanbul, the human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman met the well-known Syrian child Bana al-Abed, who gained a worldwide following tweeting the horrors of the siege of Aleppo. 

Karman, on her Twitter account, tweeted a picture of her along with Bana al-Abed, known as Aleppo's tweeting girl, writing in the photo caption, "With Bana al-Halabi, the future leader.”

Syria’s seven-old girl captured the world’s attention for tweeting the horrors of Aleppo and the realities of the life under siege. 

The Twitter account of Bana al-Abed, who has become a symbol of the tragedy in Syrian, has attracted over 329 thousand followers from around the world and has been already marked with a blue check mark by Twitter.  

Bana’s mother Fatemeh, who teaches her daughter English and helped set up the famous Twitter account, shares also along with her daughter tweets and pictures as a series of the child’s diary entries. 

Bana has lived in Turkey since she and her family fled the besieged eastern portion of Aleppo in December.

She has already written letters to various leaders, including an open letter to Donald Trump in January, in which she pleaded with the US president to “do something for the children of Syria”. 

Last week, she shared a letter she wrote to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, telling them to “stop the bombing now” and “go to jail for killing my friends”.