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tekirdag
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 Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:14 am Post subject: Kayseri |
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I wondered why on earth I kept seeing ads for EFL teachers to go to Kayseri. Now I know. From the BBC website...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4788712.stm
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Turkish toil brings new form of faith
In the Turkish city of Kayseri, Saffert Arsalan proudly shows off his furniture-making factory.
In little over a decade, Mr Arsalan's business has grown from a small enterprise to a multi-million pound international operation, exporting products to the United States, Germany and Israel.
It's an enormous success story for a man whose own father had been a carpet weaver, eking out a living in a traditional artisan economy.
Yet Mr Arsalan is not alone.
His native city is full of prospering entrepreneurs like him who are turning this former merchant trading town into a booming manufacturing hub.
Kayseri is one of a handful of cities industrialising at an astonishing rate in Anatolia, Turkey's central province and the country's Islamic heartland. |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:33 am Post subject: |
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| I liked living there. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Isn't there an idiom/ proverb about tradesmen from Kayseri? |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| A few actually- something about selling your mother in law back to your father in law for a profit, and also the old short-armed, deep pocket image. I believe the Scots also receive such comparisons. I actually found the Kayserians to be amazingly generous and trustworthy, despite what every Istanbullu has told/warned me about. |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:01 am Post subject: |
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| They are genereally skilled in harmony singing so they'd be an asset to any Beach Boys cover band. |
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