A 50-Year Journey for Turkey and Germany
By SOUAD MEKHENNET
Published: October 30, 2011
ISTANBUL — It was cold and wintry in Istanbul, that day in 1961, when Mehmet Ali Zaimoglu boarded a train to Germany carrying a small bag with a few items of clothing, his only pair of shoes and some beans and bread to eat on what he knew would be a days-long trip to a strange country.
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