Kurds

Emin is only 28 yrs old. His birthday was yesterday. Boy, I'm really robbing the cradle, but he's very mature for his age. He owns his own home: Ottoman style with dark wood, inlaid molding like many places in San Francisco, Turkish carpets and a roof with a view. He has a tea shop business in Kusadasi and a T-shirt shop in Van, and he plans to have his own carpet store soon. He's traveled to Indonesia, Cambodia, and China. Unfortunately, he's been to Iran and because of this he can't come to the U. S. yet. He's still trying.

I'm telling this because he's had a hard life being a Kurd. His family had 4000 sheep, they were doing well and the Turkish government took it all away. They went back to their farm later and tried to start again only to have the Turkish government confiscate their belonging once more. His father went to prison several times and was tortured. His two uncles disappeared - obviously murdered. All this happened in the 90's.

Like I said before the Kurds still have limited rights.