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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Reyhanli, Turkey-On a Friday in early April, for the first time since opening almost one year earlier, Turkey's Reyhanli refugee camp is quiet. Its tight security-barbed wire, guards, and a large swath of farmland isolating it from the next town-has been loosened ever so slightly by the constant movement of Syrian refugees north from Reyhanli along the Syria-Turkey border to a new camp, 90 miles away, in Kilis. Guards lounge at Reyhanli's half-open gates, letting journalists and refugees pass with a nonchalance compounded by exhaustion. Collapsed canvas tents lie in mounds beside their swept-clean concrete beds. Near the gendarme station, children swarm around a custard cake, a present from Turkey's Anatolia News Agency, the agency's logo decorating the top in blue frosting. But in the background of the isolated, half-empty camp, the acrid black plumes coming off nearby mounds of burning garbage are like smoke signals.
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