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| shipping-container homes, Kilis refugee camp, Turkey Umit Bektas/Reuters |
Journalist Paul Salopek's long walk tracing humanity's migration across the world began in January 2013, and I have checked in occasionally to follow his progress. His journal entries are moving and fascinating, particularly as he is in a part of the world that is seeing so much upheaval and sorrow (
http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2013/11/on-road.html). Here, he reports from yet another refugee camp, this one in southern Turkey, set up to shelter those fleeing the hell that Syria has become (story, video):
http://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/03/this-is-not-a-life/
Turkey has been doing what it can (
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/magazine/how-to-build-a-perfect-refugee-camp.html?_r=0), but the situation is escalating out of their control:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/syrian-refugees-face-an-increasingly-horrific-situation-in-turkey/280207/
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