Turkey's border with Iran remains calm despite widening regional conflict

Описание: (6 Mar 2026)
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Van, Turkey - 6 March 2026
1. Wide of Kapikoy border crossing between Turkey and Iran
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Leila Rabetnezhadfard, 45, Iranian national returning to be with family:
"When I heard about the war, I get so stressful, I couldn’t sleep well. And unfortunately…finally, I decided to come back to Iran because I think, ‘How can I be safe during my family are so sad, maybe they are in dangerous?’ How can I be safe and happy?
3. Rabetnezhadfard saying goodbye to her fiancé
4. Close of signs
5. Rabetnezhadfard walking towards border crossing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Harrison Matar, 53, Iranian-Canadian returning to Canada:
"They’re (his family) in their homeland, so they’re not (left) behind. It’s not that worse than you think. People get used to it. Life is going on, but with some bumps."
7. Various of people waiting to get on buses
STORYLINE:
Turkey's border with Iran remained calm on Friday with no notable movement or mass build-up of people despite the ongoing conflict.

Leila Rabetnezhadfard, 45, is an Iranian woman who moved to Istanbul to get married. She postponed her nuptials and is going back to the city of Shiraz in Iran to be with her family, who still live there.

“When I heard about the war, I get so stressful, I couldn’t sleep well,” she said just before she bid farewell to her fiancé Friday at the Kapikoy border crossing in Van. “I think, ‘How can I be safe during my family are so sad, maybe they are in dangerous?’ How can I be safe and happy?”

The broadening Iran war has ricocheted across the region and beyond, with nearly every country in the Middle East sustaining damage from missile hits, drone strikes or shrapnel.

Harrison Matar, 53, is an Iranian-Canadian national who was visiting his parents in Tehran when hostilities erupted.

“People get used to it. Life is going on, but with some bumps,” he said after arriving in Turkey, on his way to back Canada to return to his job there.

Since the war started with a joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran on Saturday, foreign governments have urged citizens to leave Middle East countries on any available commercial flight. Airspaces have closed, cruise ships have been unable to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, and major airlines have canceled flights.

AP vidveo by Serra Yedikardes



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