(16 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dogubayazit district of Agri, Turkey – 16 June 2025
1. Various of border crossing
2. SOUNDBITE (Azerbaijani Turkish) Shirin Talebi, Iranian citizen seeking refuge in Turkey:
“I’m here because of safety. They are bombing. My children have small children of their own. I have grandchildren. They live in Tehran, I am waiting for them so that we can enter Turkey together.“
3. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Ferit Aktas, bus driver:
“About a week or 10 days ago, there would be between 3 and five people (Iranians) who would come for shopping or tourism purposes but now, I can say, that there are at least 30 Iranians in my vehicle per day.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Astara border checkpoint, Azerbaijan – 16 June 2025
4. People waiting at passport control
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Petr Suraykin, cellist at Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra:
"On behalf of the orchestra, I want to thank everyone, including Azerbaijan, who honored us and offered us a great service of accommodating our concert in a difficult moment."
6. People walking at border
STORYLINE:
At a border crossing between Turkey and Iran, Shirin Talebi was anxiously waiting for her children and grandchildren to arrive from Tehran.
The family are planning to stay for a month or two in Turkey, seeking temporary refuge from the conflict between Israel and Iran.
“I’m here because of safety. They are bombing. My children have small children of their own,” said Talebi, who had just arrived at the Gurbulak-Bazargan border crossing from the Iranian city of Urmia.
“Hopefully, it is over in one or two months so we can return to our country,” she said.
Turkey, which shares a 569 kilometer-long (348 mile) border with Iran, has expressed deep concern over the escalating violence between Iran and Israel that erupted on Friday.
Israel launched an assault on Iran’s top military leaders, uranium enrichment sites and nuclear scientists that it said was necessary to prevent the country from getting any closer to building an atomic weapon.
Iran has retaliated by firing waves of ballistic missiles at Israel.
Azerbaijani media reports said that following the evacuation of citizens of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia from Iran, citizens of Portugal, the Philippines, Finland, and some other countries have crossed the Astara border checkpoint and headed to the airport in Baku, the Azerbaijani capital.
Russia’s Embassy in Iran said in the statement that more than 200 people, including families of the embassy staff and artists of the Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra, crossed the Astara border checkpoint in Azerbaijan on Sunday.
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