Helping an Afghan Girl in Istanbul

Deborah Kristina
11 min readSep 29, 2017
Can all of us contribute to helping each other, please?

“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…

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Deborah Kristina

Author of ‘A Girl All Alone Somewhere in the World’, ‘Confessions and Thoughts of a Girl in Turkey’, ‘From Just a Girl Grown Up in America’. (Amazon.com)