Traveling by train through Turkey: with the Mesopotamia Express
It’s 11:30 a.m. at Diyarbakır train station. Women in oversized sunglasses and hijabs pose for photos beneath retro clocks bearing the TCDD logo of Turkey’s state railway network. A young, lightly bearded man lies on a bench, his heart-shaped balloon on a string fluttering in the breeze, taking the edge off today’s 38C heat. Red … Read more