Wednesday, September 30, 2015

The Indian Connection to Turkey's Booming Fake Passport Mafia

The Indian Connection to Turkey's Booming Fake Passport Mafia
World | Written by Sreenivasan Jain (with inputs from Manas Roshan) | Updated: September 30, 2015 18:00 IST

For the hundreds of Syrian migrants who have escaped wars the forgery network holds out the possibility of a better life.
The refugee crisis shaking the world has come to be narrowly defined as Syrians fleeing the war, trying to enter Europe. But the ones trying to enter the West are only a small fraction - less than 10 per cent of the millions of refugees for whom Europe remains out of reach. All this week, on Exodus, a special series on NDTV, we trace the invisible roots of the refugee crisis from its point of origin along the Syria Turkey border to the gates of a divided Europe.

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