12 years ago, i went through the same kind of operation passed from smuggler to smuggler, from this town all the way to the uk, where i was granted asylum. refugees leave money with the middleman that is sent to the smuggler when they have made it safely across. he has now been handed on to the next smuggler in the chain, who will take him to istanbul. sultanbeyli, or little afghanistan, is an area of istanbul that could be confused for kabul. between 200,000 and 300,000 afghan refugees live in turkey. ....