And after a long and arduous journey navigating a country they don't know, a language they don't speak and with meager funds, they made it to Ankara, the Turkish capital, where they are now waiting.

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But I've done that long journey six or seven hundred times and I can't face getting back at 2am feeling depressed if we have lost.

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Thanks to the new bus route, the journey is now half as long for those passengers who don't mind the hassle of changing buses in Dhaka and the inconvenience of Bangladesh's notoriously overcrowded and pot-holed roads.

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