Tale of a Turkish ferry

Hundreds of ferries, oil tankers, cargo ships and fishing boats ply the Bosphorus Strait every day. They take hundreds of thousands of passengers and millions of pounds of cargo each year. But they are a world onto themselves. Eda Uzunlar was given the opportunity to work on a ferry for a day this winter, and we’ll get a small glimpse of what life is like on the water.

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