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It is said to be the last Armenian village in Turkey. Approximately 70 people still living here. Once there were 7 villages in this area.
When the tensions in 1912 in the then Ottoman Empire rose, people fled from here, one village has remained. We spent a few days here to find out what happened.
„Vakıflı“ weiterlesenGrowing up in the Schengen area, I remembered border crossings in Europe from my early childhood as something very easygoing and as a child actually quiet exciting. Well the more you grow up, the more you see.
Nowadays I really don´t like to cross borders. It is also something different going through a border checkpoint on a airport or crossing by land.
Crossing by land means you will cross the same way like smugglers. Crossing in a old and big caravan makes yourself even more suspicions. Therefore we had a lot of police in our car, checking for drugs, weapons and humans. Just depending which direction you go.
„Border crossing Turkey – Iraqi Kurdistan“ weiterlesen