"Mohammed K. is in a Kafkaesque situation -- for the past five months this refugee from Syria has been stuck in a no-man’s land at an Istanbul airport, unable to enter the country, but unable to leave," writes AFP correspondent Herve Bar, who found himself with Mohammed for a day in a room for "passengers with problems."
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