Helping an Afghan Girl in Istanbul
11 min readSep 29, 2017
“Do you know where I can learn Turkish?”
Two Fridays ago, a 17-year-old Afghan girl came by my workplace canteen and asked about Turkish language classes. She was at the glass entrance where the doors were open and I made eye contact with her which led her to approach me and I answered that there weren’t any Turkish classes at that particular school. The canteen was in the high school building that was…