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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 | No comments

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 [...]

Yilmaz and the Waiters

30 January, 2008 (08:37) | The Waiters of the Café, Yilmaz | No comments

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”. To which I replied, because I did [...]

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