Listen to the 65th edition of Free City Radio, an interview with Mohammad Sabir Saadat in Istanbul, speaking on the current Afghan refugee crisis and the realities facing the Afghan diaspora globally.
Mohammad speaks on their subject for master's research, which is the Afghan brain drain and the ways it has impacted Afghanistan since the US invasion in 2001. Mohammad speaks also on the contemporary reality in Afghanistan, post US occupation and how it impacts poor and working families in Afghanistan. Mohammad's family remains in Afghanistan, which is now under Taliban rule, while Mohammad works and studies full time in Istanbul.
Also in this interview Mohammad speaks about the ways that Afghan asylum seekers have become a contemporary political issue in Turkey, as both major parties in Turkey are exploiting, both the AKP of Erdoğan and also the Republican People's Party, by boosting public fears in Turkey about dealing with an Afghan refugee crisis, scapegoating Afghan asylum seekers and criminalizing the experiences of Afghan refugees in public discourses.
Music on this edition by Hossein Alizâdeh, with the track, Mahtaab.
Free City Radio comes out every Tuesday and is hosted by Stefan @spirodon Christoff
