In Turkish mountains so high the silver clouds almost touch the top of their heads, homesick Afghan shepherds prepare their flocks for a good shear. Kurds in the eastern Mercan Valley have been gradually replaced by Afghans, who fled here by foot and truck across Iran from the poverty and bloodshed back home.

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