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MENDING FENCES

The World’s Most Infamous Hash Smuggler Returns to Turkey

The film ‘Midnight Express’ did lasting damage to Turkey’s reputation. Billy Hayes writes about revisiting the place he was imprisoned, as chronicled in the doc ‘Midnight Return.’

Billy Hayes

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