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Living in Limbo: How Refugees Are Reshaping Turkey

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Moises Saman Along the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay Province. Under the cover of night a network of Syrian smugglers transport a family fleeing the violence inside Syria on a rowboat across the Orentes River, (...)
Moises Saman Syrian refugees after crossing into Turkey at night. Hatay Province, Turkey. 2012. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman A Syrian boy stands behind a plastic tent cover at a refugee camp near the Turkish border village of Boynuyogun. The camp houses over 1,800 Syrians that fled since the start of the conflict in Marc (...)
Moises Saman Along the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay Province. Under the cover of night a network of Syrian smugglers transport a family fleeing the violence inside Syria on a rowboat across the Orentes River, (...)
Moises Saman Syrian refugees inside a refugee camp near the Turkish border village of Boynuyogun, Turkey. March 4, 2012. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen For several weeks, Kurdish Syrian refugees have spent every day waiting near the Turkish-Syrian border for their family members who stayed behind in Kobani. In September 2014, ISIS started to attac (...)
Emin Özmen A Syrian family has just crossed the border that separates Syria from Turkey. A truck takes them to a refugee camp. Suruc, Turkey. September 2014. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Syrian refugees rest under a tree before crossing into Turkey near the Turkish town of Kilis along the Syrian-Turkish Border. Syria. July 22, 2012. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen Refugees crossing the sea from the Turkish coast to Greek island of Kos. This man, a refugee from Pakistan, just helped the other refugees to prepare for their crossing. Bodrum, Turkey. July 2015. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen Exhausted refugees who have just failed to cross the sea from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Kos. They are returning to the Bodrum city center by bus. They will try to cross again later. (...)
Moises Saman Syrian refugees hoping to make the journey to Europe gather in the courtyard of a mosque in the Basmane district of Izmir, Turkey, a place where refugees are able to meet smugglers in order to arra (...)
Moises Saman Syrian refugees who do not have the funds to continue their journey to Europe remain stranded in the courtyard of a mosque in the Basmane district of Izmir, Turkey. Refugees and smugglers often mee (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Farzaneh, 22 years old, in her room in Istanbul. She is an Afghan refugee living in Turkey with her brother and sister. She is trying to find another room, because her current landlord can't stand (...)
Newsha Tavakolian TURKEY. Istanbul. June, 2016. An Afghan refugee living under a bridge in Sahil Park in Istanbul. Some of these refugees take drugs without hiding. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian An Afghan refugee taking a stroll in Sahil park. Istanbul, Turkey. June 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen Syrian refugees taking Turkish and Arabic lessons from volunteer Syrian teachers in an unofficial school-house in Gaziantep. Gaziantep, Turkey. November 2016. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian TURKEY. Istanbul. June, 2016. Farzaneh, 22 years old, is an Afghan refugee living in Turkey with her brother and sister. She was forced to marry a violent Afghan man, 10 years he's senior, in Iran, (...)
Newsha Tavakolian TURKEY. Istanbul. June, 2016. Ruhollah Hamdard converted to christianism and lived in Sweden for nine years before being deported to Afghanistan, in 2014. He stayed there for a few months before he (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Some Afghan refugees have been living under a bridge in Sahil Park in Istanbul. Some of them take drugs openly. Istanbul, Turkey. June 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian An Afghan refugee contemplates the sea that leads to Europe. The Afghan refugees consider themselves to be the forgotten ones, because of a deal between Ankara and the European Union which only app (...)
Newsha Tavakolian TURKEY. Istanbul. June, 2016. Ghassem, 20 years old, used to live in Iran before trying to reach Europe through Turkey. Since a few weeks, he is living under a tent in Sahil park, in Zeitunburno ne (...)
Emin Özmen A Syrian refugee smokes shisha under the umbrella in a garden restaurant. Mersin has one of the largest Syrian populations in Turkey. Mersin, Turkey. 2017. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos