So close, yet so far

Vıew from the hill above Jarabulus lookıng north into Turkey. The village in the centre is Karkamis, inside Turkey. The buildings in the foreground are Jarabulus, Syrian Arab Republic. They are separated by less then a kilometre, yet it would take us a week, 160 miles of pedalling and several more of red tape to cover this distance.......

Rushing Borders and İllegal İmmigrants

April 17th 2006
Finally after months of planning we have our Iranian Visas! We kept meeting people at the Iranian Embassy in Cairo who had just returned from Iran and were enthusing massively about their wonderful experiences there. So we booked our bus tickets to Nuwieba. We had decided to travel back to the Turkish border quickly so as to try to get to Iran before it gets unbearably hot. It is ironic we ... read more

Middle East » Turkey

Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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