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What happened to the Syrian refugees who got stuck in Turkey?
Syrian families outside a Syrian grill on Inonu Street in Gaziantep, Turkey. Photograph: Ozan Köse/AFP/Getty Images
Gaziantep, in southern Turkey, is home to about half a million Syrian refugees, many of whom had hoped to make it Europe
by Bethan McKernan in Istanbul and Hussein Akoush in Gaziantep
Wed 17 Mar 2021 01.00 EDTLast modified on Wed 17 Mar 2021 01.03 EDT
The first to arrive at Gaziantep’s Irani Bazaar are the bakers, lighting their saj grills before the sun comes up to make Syrian flatbread for the day’s customers. The smell of sesame and fresh unleavened bread fills the neighbourhood in the Anatolian city by the time the street’s other traders arrive to open their shops.
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