"Packs of wild dogs roam around desolate wastelands; toxic chemicals spill out into the street, with corrugated metal sheets and slapdash factories scattered around. It's like a shantytown, he says. However, once he sets foot inside some of these factories, he reaches for a different cinematic comparison. This time he's thinking of the torture-horror film Saw, as he witnesses Afghan refugees working and living in conditions that he says fit the UN definition of modern-day slavery."
"Then one day in 2022, Hayat asked Khan: Did you hear what happened to Arifullah Fazli? He showed Khan a photo on his phone of a young man who worked in a different factory. It was a harrowing image: a lifeless body, legs missing, laid out on the floor surrounded by piles of trash. He had been killed in an accident involving a recycling compactor machine. The moment I was shown his body was such a shock, says Khan. The story became much bigger."
Adnan Khan visited a remote industrial zone at Istanbul's edge where wild dogs roam, toxic chemicals spill into streets, and corrugated metal factories form a shantytown. Inside recycling factories, Afghan refugees work and live in conditions that meet the UN definition of modern-day slavery. Khan visited three young men—Samim, Hayat and Khalid—while researching refugee workers in the recycling industry. In 2022 Hayat showed a photo of Arifullah Fazli, a worker killed when a recycling compactor amputated his legs and left his body among piles of trash. The incident prompted a three-part investigative podcast, Boy Wasted. The UK exports thousands of tonnes of plastic waste to Turkey annually.
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