ジョン・スタンメイヤーのインスタグラム(johnstanmeyer) - 2月22日 10時50分
Fleeing Terror, Finding Refuge ~ My latest story for @ナショナルジオグラフィック magazine on Syrian refugees in Turkey, Part IV of the @outofedenwalk, published in the March 2015 issue, available now at newsstands everywhere.
Photographing this story back in September 2014, initially I was reporting on the effect of migration based upon conflict — the ensconced refugee crisis where nearly 1.3 million people had already sought refuge in camps in neighboring Turkey alone (also in Jordan and elsewhere). During my first few weeks in eastern Turkey I spent time in refugee camps set up by the Turkish government, some of the finest run facilities I’d seen in over 20 years of covering conflict and human displacement.
On September 19, 2014, I had finished spending two days walking with friend and writer @PaulSalopek through the mountains a few hours northeast of Gaziantep. Returning to my hotel, I received a daily humanitarian email alert mentioning thousands of Syrians amassing at the Turkish/Syrian border near Suruç.
I asked my friend and translator how far Suruç was — a 4 hours drive south.
Taking the wheel of the car, we raced to the border, witnessing the start of a mass exodus of Syrian Kurds into Turkey, fleeing the arrival of ISIS to their city of Müsitpinar, one of the largest movement of people in this region at one time since the fall of the Ottoman Empire — more than 150,000 Syrian Kurds crossed the border in those three days last September.
Paul later joined me at the boarder were we witnessed first hand what had been happening for nearly three years throughout the region — migration due to war and conflict.
I ask you to please pick up the the March 2015 edition of National Geography not only to read the brilliant writing by Paul Salopek, also to feel, understand the weight and measure of what it means to be displaced, a devastating reality for millions around our planet today as Paul and I continue walking the similar pathway our collective humanity took out of Africa that began some 60,000 years ago.
All my best,
@ジョン・スタンメイヤー
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