{"id":2803,"date":"2015-12-03T17:42:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T12:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2016-02-04T23:05:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:35:48","slug":"izmir-death-boats-refugee-crisis-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/izmir-death-boats-refugee-crisis-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 7: Saddened by Izmir’s refugee death boats"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the train from\u00a0Selcuk<\/a>, I was reading about how close Greece was to Izmir. With daily coast-to-coast ferries, I regretted not \u00a0planning a trip despite of a valid Schengen visa.\u00a0On arriving, we were all extremely hungry and headed to a cafe on the main street connecting Basmane station with the coast.<\/p>\n

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Delicious lahmacun & pide with lentil soup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We noticed an unusual transition in the anthropological scene. Instead of an European influence, we noticed more Arabic features. We saw garment stores selling life jackets & tubes. Some suspicious men were walking in and out of the cafe. In a flash second, all dots connected in my head. Izmir was the starting point for refugee death boats headed to the Greek coast. The unraveling of facts and accompanying images only saddened us.<\/p>\n

\"Shops<\/a>
Shops selling life jackets & tubes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We woke up in the morning to go around the city, but there wasn’t much to do.<\/p>\n

\"Ataturk<\/a>
Ataturk status in Cumhuriyet Meydan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The sea police seemed to be well equipped<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Public<\/a>
Public transport ferry connecting ports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Izmir<\/a>
Izmir clock tower at sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We took a flight back to Istanbul Ataturk, and then a\u00a0metro\u00a0to Taksim for Day 8<\/a> – the last day of our\u00a0Turkey Roadtrip<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the train from\u00a0Selcuk, I was reading about how close Greece was to Izmir. With daily coast-to-coast ferries, I regretted not \u00a0planning a trip despite of a valid Schengen visa.\u00a0On arriving, we were all extremely hungry and headed to a cafe on the main street connecting Basmane station with the coast. We noticed an unusual … Continue reading Day 7: Saddened by Izmir’s refugee death boats<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1149,895,1147,1150,1148,1110,901,1106,1115],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-death-boats","tag-instagram","tag-izmir","tag-onur-air","tag-refugee-crisis","tag-road-trip","tag-sea","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-roadtrip"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/day-7-izmir-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}