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Covers:  Refugees, Balkans, Middle East, Turkey, Human Rights, Conflict, Environment
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Voices of Turkey's Purged

Voices of Turkey's Purged

The Atlantic — The night of July 15, Seda was at home in Erzurum, a town in eastern Turkey, when she got a call from her son, a student at a military academy in Ankara, the nation's capital. Turkey was under attack, and he was being deployed with his classmates. His unit had been given rifles but no ammunition, he told Seda from the back of an army truck bound for the city center. Then he hung up.
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Freed From the Islamic State, but Far From Free

Freed From the Islamic State, but Far From Free

Foreign Policy Magazine — DOHUK, Iraq - During her 19 months of captivity under the Islamic State, Nofa Mahlo, a 37-year-old Yazidi woman from Baa'j, lived each day not knowing what the next would bring. Her imprisonment in crowded, underground prisons had turned her skin a pale white. She’d been separated from her children and made to subsist on two meager meals a day. Other than occasional visits from younger Yazidi girls who shared horror stories of their lives as sex slaves for Islamic State fighters, she had little contact with the outside world.
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Real-life accounts of what it's like to be "smuggled like drugs" across Europe

Real-life accounts of what it's like to be "smuggled like drugs" across Europe

Quartz — "They smuggle us like drugs," says Yassir, a 23-year-old Afghan. "And if we don't do what they say, they threaten to tie us to a tree and leave us in the forest." Europe's human trafficking trade is thriving, thanks to a recent deal between the EU and Turkey that has empowered EU authorities to deport asylum-seekers more easily.
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Turkey's Covert War

Turkey's Covert War

Jacobin Magazine — In Diyarbakir, Turkey, large pieces of white tarp hang vertically in the alleys, blocking the view of anyone trying to peer inside. In front of them, police with automatic rifles stand between sandbag barricades, denying entrance to civilians, as much of the city's central district remains under curfew.
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Amid rats and mud, refugees struggle in French camp

Amid rats and mud, refugees struggle in French camp

dw.com — Not far from the "Jungle" in Calais, 3,000 people live among foul swamps in another refugee camp. The inhumane conditions have compelled MSF to build new accommodation on drier grounds.
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The Price of Gold in the Twenty-First Century

The Price of Gold in the Twenty-First Century

nacla.org — In June 2014, the Peruvian government moved to gut the nation's already dismal environmental policies in effort to boost investments from foreign mining companies and send a signal to growing anti-mining movements around the nation. The following images, stories, and quotes were gathered during my time in Peru between March and April of 2012.
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The Syrian Refugee Crisis: A First-Hand Account From the Turkish Border

The Syrian Refugee Crisis: A First-Hand Account From the Turkish Border

towardfreedom.com — More than three years have passed since protesters took the streets in Syria. What began as a call for democracy, a mass movement to end Bashar al-Assad’s 43 years of family rule, has turned into a foreign-funded proxy war without a foreseeable end.
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Unregulated drone use soars in Latin America

Unregulated drone use soars in Latin America

canadiandimension.com — Over the last decade, drones have made headlines as tools for covert bombing campaigns in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. Yet remote-controlled warfare is just one of many functions Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can provide as non-lethal models become less expensive and more accessible to countries around the world.
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Lighting the world's poorest corners, cleanly

Lighting the world's poorest corners, cleanly

The Star-Ledger — Worldwide, 1.6 billion people live without electricity. And while experts estimate trillions of dollars will be spent in the coming decades to bring new, carbon-spewing coal power plants on line, the number of people in the developing world without power will remain startlingly high.
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UConn professor travels the world looking for parasites

UConn professor travels the world looking for parasites

Associated Press — STORRS, Conn. --They are nematodes, isopods, barnacles and leeches. They sit in ethanol-filled test tubes on shelves and inside file cabinets in the Torrey Life Sciences Building at the University of Connecticut. These parasites are locked away in halls decorated with various maps and pictures from around the globe.
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The never-ending harvest: Syrian refugees exploited on Turkish farms

The never-ending harvest: Syrian refugees exploited on Turkish farms

IRIN — Drawn by year-round agricultural work, Syrian refugees flock to southern Turkey but often end up underpaid and living in isolated tent camps
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