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Loubna Mrie
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On Smuggling - Turkey
Syria 2011-2014
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Loubna Mrie
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Journalism
Photography
On Smuggling - Turkey
Syria 2011-2014
Published Work
About
Contact
English
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On Smuggling - Turkey
Syria 2011-2014
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A Syrian girl stranded at Esenler bus terminal.
Istanbul, Turkey, September 16, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
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The island of Kos seen from a beach on the Bodrum peninsula in Turkey.Akyarlar, Turkey. September 26, 2015. © Loubna Mrie View fullsize
Traces left by refugees on a beach in Çesme, used as a point of departure to the Greek island of Chios, less than ten miles away.
Çesme, Turkey. September 24, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
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A boy runs by a pile of life vests for sale on the streets of central Izmir, Turkey's third largest city, and a current hub of human smuggling. Izmir, Turkey. September 20, 2015. View fullsize
Three Iraqi refugees walk down Fehvsi Pasha Boulevard in Izmir, looking for a smuggler to make arrangements to travel to the Greek Islands in the Aegean Sea.
Izmir, Turkey. September 19, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
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al-Khal (The Uncle), a 38-year-old Syrian who heads a human smuggling operation in Izmir, wears a solid ring crowned with an obsidian on his pinky finger—a gift from an Iranian family he smuggled to Greece. He claims to have made over two million dol View fullsize
A square in the central Izmir neighborhood of Basmane, where refugees wait with their baggage for a call from the smugglers.
Izmir, Turkey. September 20, 2015. © Loubna Mrie View fullsize
An Iraqi refugee from Baghdad Skypes with his family from Gazi Boulevard before his impending trip to the Greek islands.
Izmir, Turkey. September 19, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
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Refugees pitch temporary camps on a square in central Izmir.
Izmir, Turkey. September 20, 2014. © Loubna Mrie View fullsize
An 18-year-old Moroccan man who prefers to remain anonymous rests on a tent pitched on a square in central Izmir. He does not have enough money to pay a smuggler.
Izmir, Turkey. September 20, 2015. © Loubna Mrie View fullsize
An African man sleeps on the streets of Basmane neighborhood. Izmir has become a hub for human smuggling, attracting would-be migrants to Europe from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, the Levant, and all over Central Asia as far as the Indian subconti View fullsize
Two afghan refugees camp out at the bus station in Bodrum. Hundreds of mostly young, single men —Pakistanis, Afghanis, Iranians— sleep in the station while they muster up the funds to pay for a maritime crossing. Many tried to side-step the smugglers View fullsize
A shopkeeper sells life-vests, manufactured in Izmir, which are not up to safety standards. The refugee crisis has generated a multi-million dollar underground economy in the city.
Izmir, Turkey. September, 20, 2015. © Loubna Mrie View fullsize
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Refugees wait for a call from the smugglers in Basmane Square, where street peddlers sell floating devices.
Izmir, Turkey. September, 19, 2015. © Loubna Mrie View fullsize
Ibrahim, 5, Habibullah, 3, and Seraj, 1, three Syrian brothers sit with their mother in the courtyard of the Basmane mosque in Izmir shich serves as temporary shelter for refugees before heading out to the Aegean sea to cross to the Greek islands.
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Styrofoam packing for the basic outboard motors used to power the inflatable rafts that transport refugees to the Greek island of Chios in a beach close to Çesme.
Çesme, Turkey. September 24, 2015. © Loubna Mrie View fullsize
A small stretch of beach in the Bodrum peninsula—the so-called Turkish Riviera—used as a point of embrakment to the Greek island of Kos. Luxury vacation condos are visible in the background.
Turkey, 2015. © Loubna Mrie View fullsize
An exhausted refugee sleeps at the courtyard of the bus station's mosque.
Istanbul, Turkey. September 16, 2015. © Loubna Mrie View fullsize
Ahmad al Abdo, a Syrian refugee who escaped Al-Nusra Front [Al-Qaeda in Syria], made arrangements in Istanbul before heading to the Aegean coast to cross to the Greek islands.
Istanbul, Turkey. September 7, 2015. © Loubna Mrie View fullsize
Turkish Police search a Syrian refugee. Turkish law-enforcement in general tend to turn a blind-eye on illegal migration, deliberately abstaining from controlling their maritime border with Greece.
Istanbul, Turkey. September 16, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
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A Syrian mother feeding her baby boy and speaking with her daughter.
Istanbul, Turkey. September 16, 2015. © Loubna Mrie View fullsize
Mother and son resting.
Istanbul Turkey. September 16, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
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Among the few posessions Ahmad al-Abdo carries are the keys to his house in Idlib.
Istanbul, Turkey. September 7, 2015. © Loubna Mrie View fullsize
The island of Kos seen from a beach on the Bodrum peninsula in Turkey.Akyarlar, Turkey. September 26, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
Traces left by refugees on a beach in Çesme, used as a point of departure to the Greek island of Chios, less than ten miles away.
Çesme, Turkey. September 24, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
A boy runs by a pile of life vests for sale on the streets of central Izmir, Turkey's third largest city, and a current hub of human smuggling. Izmir, Turkey. September 20, 2015.
Three Iraqi refugees walk down Fehvsi Pasha Boulevard in Izmir, looking for a smuggler to make arrangements to travel to the Greek Islands in the Aegean Sea.
Izmir, Turkey. September 19, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
al-Khal (The Uncle), a 38-year-old Syrian who heads a human smuggling operation in Izmir, wears a solid ring crowned with an obsidian on his pinky finger—a gift from an Iranian family he smuggled to Greece. He claims to have made over two million dol
A square in the central Izmir neighborhood of Basmane, where refugees wait with their baggage for a call from the smugglers.
Izmir, Turkey. September 20, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
An Iraqi refugee from Baghdad Skypes with his family from Gazi Boulevard before his impending trip to the Greek islands.
Izmir, Turkey. September 19, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
Refugees pitch temporary camps on a square in central Izmir.
Izmir, Turkey. September 20, 2014. © Loubna Mrie
An 18-year-old Moroccan man who prefers to remain anonymous rests on a tent pitched on a square in central Izmir. He does not have enough money to pay a smuggler.
Izmir, Turkey. September 20, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
An African man sleeps on the streets of Basmane neighborhood. Izmir has become a hub for human smuggling, attracting would-be migrants to Europe from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, the Levant, and all over Central Asia as far as the Indian subconti
Two afghan refugees camp out at the bus station in Bodrum. Hundreds of mostly young, single men —Pakistanis, Afghanis, Iranians— sleep in the station while they muster up the funds to pay for a maritime crossing. Many tried to side-step the smugglers
A shopkeeper sells life-vests, manufactured in Izmir, which are not up to safety standards. The refugee crisis has generated a multi-million dollar underground economy in the city.
Izmir, Turkey. September, 20, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
Screenshot 2025-01-19 at 1.44.33 PM.png
Refugees wait for a call from the smugglers in Basmane Square, where street peddlers sell floating devices.
Izmir, Turkey. September, 19, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
Ibrahim, 5, Habibullah, 3, and Seraj, 1, three Syrian brothers sit with their mother in the courtyard of the Basmane mosque in Izmir shich serves as temporary shelter for refugees before heading out to the Aegean sea to cross to the Greek islands.
Iz
Styrofoam packing for the basic outboard motors used to power the inflatable rafts that transport refugees to the Greek island of Chios in a beach close to Çesme.
Çesme, Turkey. September 24, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
A small stretch of beach in the Bodrum peninsula—the so-called Turkish Riviera—used as a point of embrakment to the Greek island of Kos. Luxury vacation condos are visible in the background.
Turkey, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
An exhausted refugee sleeps at the courtyard of the bus station's mosque.
Istanbul, Turkey. September 16, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
Ahmad al Abdo, a Syrian refugee who escaped Al-Nusra Front [Al-Qaeda in Syria], made arrangements in Istanbul before heading to the Aegean coast to cross to the Greek islands.
Istanbul, Turkey. September 7, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
Turkish Police search a Syrian refugee. Turkish law-enforcement in general tend to turn a blind-eye on illegal migration, deliberately abstaining from controlling their maritime border with Greece.
Istanbul, Turkey. September 16, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
A Syrian mother feeding her baby boy and speaking with her daughter.
Istanbul, Turkey. September 16, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
Mother and son resting.
Istanbul Turkey. September 16, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
Among the few posessions Ahmad al-Abdo carries are the keys to his house in Idlib.
Istanbul, Turkey. September 7, 2015. © Loubna Mrie
A Syrian girl stranded at Esenler bus terminal.
Istanbul, Turkey, September 16, 2015. © Loubna Mrie