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All or nothing: the long journey to gamble on a brighter future

Van/Bitlis, Turkey, Jul 5 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Sedat Suna) Ahmed and his six friends have been walking for 28 days. They left Afghanistan looking for a future in Europe — today, they find themselves in the middle of an almost deserted area near the Iran-Turkey border. But they are already on Turkish soil. FOOTAGE OF THE CEMETERY IN THE CITY OF VAN, LAKE VAN, THE ROAD (MOST MOST OF IT IN TATVAN), DIYARBAKIR.SOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATIONS:1- My name is Ahmed. I am from Afghanistan.I am a Turkmen from Afghanistan. A month ago, we came from Afghanistan to Iran and from there to Turkey. Now I am in Tatvan. I want to go to Ankara. I'll work there. I will send money to my hometown. Mum and Dad need money. There is no work there, we have to come here.2- We paid 1,000 dollars to come here from Afghanistan. If we send money, they send us to Ankara and Istanbul.Refugee:3- We come from Afghanistan. We cross borders. We go through illegal roads up mountains. Now we have come here, there is war in our country. They are fighting each other. That's why we can't find a job. We have to come here. We come here to save our family and our children. We work for 1-2 years and send them money. We also saved their lives. We met soldiers on the way. Some Turkish soldiers helped us. God bless you. They fed us, they gave us tea. We came here on foot from Afghanistan for 28 days. We had many difficulties.4.- Hello, I am Nasrollah Movahedpour from the city of Mashhad.5.- I wish something would happen and the regime in Iran was changed, since they are so corrupt and send our money to Russia, China, everywhere except the Iranians, and I hope that when the regime changes I will be the first to return there, to my country, like my roots, my parents are there.