Yesterday at the castle in Kahramanmaraş, Emine and I ran into a crew interviewing locals for a German radio station.
They were gathering local opinions on the deployment of German troops to support Patriot missiles that will be placed in Maraş and aimed at Syria.
Both of the two interviewers, Tomas (shown above) and Mehmet, had read about my project in the newspapers and took advantage of our meeting to interview me about the walk.
I asked them what they were learning about the local opinions of the Patriot missiles. The main opinions they were running into were "I hope the Germans soldiers have a nice touristic trip here," and "why does Maraş have to be made a target?"
Photo courtesy of Emine Yüksel.
“The secret of the region’s new strength lies in its ancient links with Syria and Iraq. Antep is on the old silk road that leads to Aleppo.” –from The Economist
