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for six months, while working jobs to earn money so that he could pay someone to smuggle him to Turkey. In Turkey, he recalled that he "worked 16 hours a day, earning only 1,000 dollars after six months. gave me $ 300 a month and I had to buy my own food ... they abused me, they did not respect me,
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