Current News - 25 April 2013

Today's Update: Not much new. After struggling all day and visiting nearly every phone shop in the city with no luck, my American friend in Turkey came to the rescue with a 7 year old Nokia phone and 5 phone shops later, finally someone who would sell me a prepaid calling card so that I can communicate with my attorney and other points of contact here in the country. Who knew it would be so difficult to get a phone, even a prepaid one. In Germany, for 20 euro you can get a new cheapy phone with some prepaid time on it. Here, phones are way overpriced and you have to use your passport and get lucky in order to get a sim card. Today wore me down to the bone and that's the only thing that was accomplished.
I'm all packed up. Tomorrow I have to bus across town to the next hotel. It's booked for 2 weeks. I hope that's all I need it for.