{"id":42241,"date":"2022-03-08T02:05:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/07\/syria-afghanistan-ukraine-refugees-crisis-turkey"},"modified":"2022-03-08T02:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:05:24","slug":"syria-afghanistan-ukraine-how-many-refugee-crises-can-the-world-cope-with-anushka-asthana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42241","title":{"rendered":"Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine: how many refugee crises can the world cope with? | Anushka Asthana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the borders of Turkey, a six-metre high wall in the snow is holding back a tide of people desperate to find a haven from tyranny<\/p>\n<p>The province of Van, in the east of Turkey, is a place of unbelievable beauty, where snow-covered mountains sweep out of the country and into Iran. Turkey is building a six-metre high wall across its border there, and as we reached it, we sank knee-deep into fluffy snow, shivering as the temperature fell to -20C and a bitterly cold wind whipped against our cheeks. In every direction, the view was stunning, mesmerising.<\/p>\n<p>But the beauty masks a grim and stomach-turning reality. For many, this landscape is a death trap, part of a terrible and desperate journey that can only be completed by foot.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/07\/syria-afghanistan-ukraine-refugees-crisis-turkey\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the borders of Turkey, a six-metre high wall in the snow is holding back a tide of people desperate to find a haven from tyrannyThe province of Van, in the east of Turkey, is a place of unbelievable beauty, where snow-covered mountains sweep out of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2945,"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":[46,221,717,491,4,494,61,1017,52,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-europe","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-migration","category-politics","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-turkey","category-uk-news","category-ukraine","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\/42241","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\/2945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42242,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42241\/revisions\/42242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}