Not Syrian, not Turkish: Refugees fleeing war lack documentation
Without passports, desperate refugees turn to forgeries to escape their paperless limbo
September 24, 2015 9:00AM ET
by Tania Karas @TaniaKaras
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — For Mahmoud Ali and Iman Omar, both Syrian refugees from Aleppo, life in exile is bittersweet. The couple is far from home. They don’t know if they can ever return, but at least here they can be together. They escaped separately to this southern Turkish city 40 miles from the Syrian border and, free of the chaos of war, were able to marry in 2013.
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