{"id":34118,"date":"2021-07-16T21:50:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/16\/afghans-flee-to-eastern-turkey-as-taliban-takes-control-amid-chaos"},"modified":"2021-07-16T21:50:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:50:06","slug":"afghans-flee-to-eastern-turkey-as-taliban-takes-control-amid-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34118","title":{"rendered":"Afghans flee to eastern Turkey as Taliban takes control amid chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some pay smugglers to take them to Istanbul as withdrawal of US troops rekindles fears of civil war<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-eight days into their journey out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>, a woman and her five children are sitting in the shade near a bus station in Tatvan, a town on the shore of Lake Van in eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/turkey\">Turkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She is waiting for a smuggler, who was paid in advance, to take the family to Istanbul. Tired and dirty, the younger children are playing in the dust and laughing; the youngest boy wants a piggyback. The smuggler is two days late.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/16\/afghans-flee-to-eastern-turkey-as-taliban-takes-control-amid-chaos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some pay smugglers to take them to Istanbul as withdrawal of US troops rekindles fears of civil warTwenty-eight days into their journey out of Afghanistan, a woman and her five children are sitting in the shade near a bus station in Tatvan, a town on t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,448,212,494,61,44,1017,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-turkey","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34119,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34118\/revisions\/34119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}