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Month: January, 2008

Yilmaz in the Very Nice Restaurant

31 January, 2008 (09:55) | Mr. Executive Vice-President of the Bank |

Tweet We went shopping in the Covered Market. I bought him some blue jeans, a sweatshirt and some shoes. We bought them from Mr. Blue Jeans’ shop and then Mr. Blue Jeans took us to a shoe shop where the Little Boy chose some new shoes. Then we went to a lovely restaurant to have [...]

Yilmaz and the Waiters

30 January, 2008 (08:37) | The Waiters of the Café, Yilmaz |

Tweet The Little Boy of Istanbul and the waiters of the Café by the Mosque: Of faith and hope and charity Of love, Of conviviality. They were talking among themselves and then one of them said to me, “did you know we were speaking Kurdish? Once this language was forbidden to be spoken in Turkey”. [...]

Mr. Policeman

29 January, 2008 (04:33) | Mr. Policeman |

Tweet There were many people involved in the search for the little boy of Istanbul. Mr. Policeman of the Turkish police force was one of them. He was actually a very nice policeman. I had been walking around the district of Eminönü carrying a brown envelope wıth the photographs of the lıttle boy, asking people [...]

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