LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: At the Emniyet (Or, Why Big, Beautiful Walls Will Never Work)
James Tressler / Today @ 7:37 a.m. / Letter From Istanbul
You’ve got to be kidding. Five — no, six — years you’ve been living in Turkey, and here you are at the main foreign police office, the Emniyet, in Fatih. You’re standing in a queue with Syrian refugees, waiting to get a residency permit.
Unbelievable.
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