A multicolored kite floats against the blue sky, held by 5-year-old Sohrab and his sister, both trying to get it to fly higher. Their friends, laughing and shouting in Farsi, also run around with their kites, wrists moving in sharp jerks to ensure that the kites can still rise, despite the weak summer wind.
The scene seems like a flashback to Kabul’s freedom days, with its internationally known kite runners. Yet the scene is not Afghanistan, but Turkey, and these Afghan children are in forced exile in the southeastern city of Gaziantep.
