The experience of 28-year-old Fadi Mansour is a far cry from that of Tom Hanks's character in The Terminal Sitting in Turkey's biggest airport watching the Hollywood film The Terminal, Fadi Mansour hoped to find common cause with the protagonist. While Tom Hanks's character is a fictional refugee barred from leaving an airport owing to the vagaries of visa law, Mansour is a real-life one - a 28-year-old Syrian trapped for more than a year inside Istanbul's Atatürk airport. "He was in the same s...
Not like in the movies: Syrian refugee trapped in Turkish airport limbo
The Guardian - 14 Aug 2016 15:00
The experience of 28-year-old Fadi Mansour is a far cry from that of Tom Hanks's character in The Terminal Sitting in Turkey's biggest airport watching the Hollywood film The Terminal, Fadi Mansour hoped to find common cause with the protagonist. While Tom Hanks's character is a fictional refugee barred from leaving an airport owing to the vagaries of visa law, Mansour is a real-life one - a 28-year-old Syrian trapped for more than a year inside Istanbul's Atatürk airport. "He was in the same s...
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