Breaking into Fortress Europe

A Kurdish guerilla, disillusioned with fighting the Iranian regime, tries to smuggle himself on to truck bound for the Schengen Area.

From Claire—Iason Athanasiadis, a freelance writer and photographer whom I came to know when I was living in Istanbul, has had an interesting career. He had, for example, the unwanted distinction of being detained in Iran’s Evin Prison after the fraudulent 2009 election, a story he recounts here:

He now lives between Tunis and Athens, writing about the lost cosmopolitanism of Mediterranean port cities. He’s the author of our feature story in today’s Cosmopolitan Globalist, which he researched in the Greek port of port of Igoumenitsa. It describes the efforts of Bahoz—a Kurdish guerilla from Iran—to smuggle himself into Europe.

Read: FORTRESS EUROPE AND THE GAME

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