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So we took a taxi to Ortaköy to walk around the market by the edge of the Bosphorus. When we got a taxi, Yilmaz was the perfect little gentleman. He treated me like a princess, opening the taxi door for me, gesturing like a fine gentleman that this was our taxi to Ortaköy and that [...]
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 [...]
I sat in the Cafés by the New Mosque sipping apple teas. Sometimes, I had lunch there. All the waiters had seen the three photographs of the little boy. They knew him. Many times they told me he had been there but I had just missed him. They told me his name was Yilmaz. All [...]
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