Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went to America in 1949 as a young engineer and later in 1954, when I was a director at the Turkish State Water Works Department, through an Eisenhower exchange fellowship. I was deeply impressed by the creative and revolutionary methods evolved in America in the fields of management and technology. My own personal experience in life led me to understand the importance of social mobility, providing full opportunities to all citizens regardless of birth, origin and creed, and thus ensuring a full development of individual talents and initiatives. I met Americans from every walk of life. I was impressed...
...multi-million dollar project--largest in Swiss history--is being financed by a Swiss conglomeration but built by foreign migrant workers. Although pay scales are adequate, no Swiss laborers could be found for the rigorous work, hence Turkish, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Algerian workers were brought in for the mammoth construction job. All supplies must be flown in by chopper...
...below me now, a stubby, grey-haired Turkish lady is crouching on her hands and knees, faced towards Mecca...
CAPPADOCIA LIES IN the center of the Anatolian peninsula on a plateau bounded by Ankara, the Turkish capital, Kayseri, the one-time capital of Cappadocia, and Konya, home of the thirteenth century mystic Mevlani and his whirling dervishes. I came to Cappadocia by bus. The Turks probably have the best buses in the world--cheap, abundant, luxurious (plush seats, stewards, T.V., etc.). And fast, Perhaps too fast--Turkey has the highest per-vehicle accident rate in the world...
Uchisar, Cappadocia, July 24--A darling kitten with a black nose is rubbing himself on my ankles as I write. I'm lunching in the kitchen of the local cafe. Not much of a kitchen really--it has only a sink, a gas kahve cooker [the so-called Turkish coffee which the Turks generally forego in favor of tea], and an impish and affectionate Turk to go with it, four cracked plaster walls, and a swarm of flies. But boy, am I happy. [The kitten with the black nose is now pulling at my sandal strap.] I came here absolutely...