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The city with two names

Link By Michael Kurtz | May 18th, 2008

ANTAKYA/HATAY, Turkey – After a week of exploring Istanbul’s bustling streets we jetted on a flight across Turkey to the southeastern city of Adana and then bussed it three hours to Antakya a.k.a. Hatay in preparation for our border crossing into Syria. Take your flight to Asia in today’s photo gallery.

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Thushan Amarasiriwardena

, former Senior Multimedia Producer at The Boston Globe, has always loved telling a great story. Combining his eye for visual story telling and his technical background in computer science at North Carolina State University, Thushan has reported on business, sports and travel for The Globe.

Michael Kurtz

, graduated with a degree in Ethnomusicology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His thesis research focused on the intersection of race and music in Northeastern Brazil. He worked previously as A&R and Production Coordinator for Putumayo World Music, an international music record label based in New York City.

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