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, (...)
which marks a stretch of the border between northern Syria and southern Turkey. March 2, 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 (...)
h of 2011. Boynuyogun, Hatay Province. Turkey. March 4, 2012. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
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, (...)
which marks a stretch of the border between northern Syria and southern Turkey. 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 (...)
k Kobani and laid siege to the city in October 2014. Suruc, Turkey. September 2014. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
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 (...)
nge the journey to Greece. Izmir, Turkey. October 2, 2015. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
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 (...)
t in this courtyard in order to make arrangements for the journey to Greece. Izmir, Turkey. October 2, 2015. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
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 (...)
her brother anymore, a drug addict. Istanbul, Turkey. June, 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | 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, (...)
when she was 14 years old. Her husband forced her out of their house and didn't let her see her children anymore, so she decided to leave Iran, trying to reach an European country, so she could one day go back to Iran, get her children back.
From time to time, Farzaneh goes to Sahil park, in Zeitunburno neighborhood. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
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 (...)
ading back to Europe. Now he lives under a tent of fortune in Sahil park in Istanbul. © 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 (...)
lies to Syrians. (For every Syrian refugee deported from Greek islands to Turkey, another Syrian will be relocated from Turkey to a European country.) Istanbul, Turkey. June, 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
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 (...)
ighborhood. He used to fight with other Iranian and Afghan solders against ISIS and Syrian rebels. He shows his pictures taken on battle ground in Syria. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos