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Tweet Once upon a time in Istanbul… There once was a musician in Turkey named Ahmet Kaya and his music was loved by everyone in the country. Now what I mean by everyone, was everyone. Be they left or right, conservative or modern, young and old, Turkish or Kurdish, he was loved by all. He [...]
Tweet One of my readers sent me a long, superbly written comment about this website on a posting about the Café Efsane. She believes that she too met the little boy of Istanbul. It our world that becomes smaller today. Truly knowing everyone is a matter of “Six Degrees of Separation”, I believe in the [...]
Tweet The next day, we met up by chance near the Mosque. This is a lucky sign. He was happy to see me. I was happy to see him. Yilmaz was wearing his brand new shoes. I asked him if he would come to the Covered Market to help me buy t-shirts. I thought he [...]
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