country: Germany|Turkey

My Istanbul

A Turkish philosopher from Istanbul once visited me in Berlin. He was only there for a few days. He looked at the street and said quietly, ‘I don’t think I could live here.’   Not the summer planes but the winter planes brought many people who were crying from Europe to Istanbul, crying because their […]

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Emine Sevgi Özdamar

Emine Sevgi Özdamar, born in 1946, is a Turkish-German author, actress, and theatre director. At the age of 12 she entered the stage for the first time, and in 1965 she came to Germany as a Gastarbeiter, working at a factory in West Berlin. After taking acting classes in Istanbul, she got her first professional roles, […]

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