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1971-8-71June.2.E-S -    Note: 213

Page: 79/80
Date: 27.06.71
Location: Adana
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4 young children - youngest "rahatsiz - scaga dayanamiyor" {unwell, can't stand the heat}. Very querulous. Poor i(Zeliha Sahin) trying to be polite {to me}
alternatively loved him and comforted him and then got cross and told him to shut {up} - neither worked. They gave him sweets (my present).

[Striking absence of support - she has to face this all alone with only neighbours and no kin BUT
(i) even in village a girl may have no childhood friends or kin around her;
(ii) her husband's kin may be a positive drawback;
(iii) she is like millions of city wives;
(iv) in Turkey neighbours are in fact often very good.]

k<migrant wife, absence of help>
NA

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