Leigh in Azerbaijan

Today was the big day of fronting up to get my Residence Visa at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which also covers refugees, illegal immigrants and those being expelled.
Canan and I were driven by an ‘office boy’ (a grown man) into the city, who then waited the hours some blocks away until we were finished. [...]

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By approaching the families of women in danger, an NGO saves 13 women from almost certain death
DİYARBAKIR – Anatolia News Agency
Thirteen women whose families had decided to murder them, in the name of “honor killings” for supposedly tarnishing the families’ name, were saved by a nongovernmental organization that persuaded the families against such an act.
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Today I made another step towards getting a bank account but I haven’t quite achieved it yet.
Tomorrow I have to go the Foreign Ministry in person to prove (presumably) that I am who I say I am.  I go with Canan (Ja-narn) who is one of the various people responsible for foreign teachers.
Canan informed that [...]

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It’s a scary thing to spend the day in a city where you can’t communicate and have to find a ferry to rendezvous with others at 7pm. As I know yiros in Turkish, I had a dürüm (do-room) for lunch and dinner and visited the Blue Mosque, Aya Sofya, The Basilica Cistern and the [...]

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