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The Grand Turk
Turkey’s Lake Van turns into graveyard for migrants
2020-08-31
In which Rudaw pitches a human interest tale about the Ummah getting rid of surplus population.
[Rudaw] Gravestones scribbled with identity numbers are all that remain of dozens of migrants colonists aboard a boat that sank in a Ottoman Turkish lake as they struggled to make it to Europe.

Lake Van, a vast body of water nearly seven times the size of Lake Geneva, has become a death trap for Afghan, Pak and other migrants colonists seeking security and work.

The sinking of two boats in June and December, claiming 68 lives in all, underscores the perils of a route used to circumnavigate checkpoints set up across the rugged eastern terrain of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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