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1986_July-Sept_86HH -    Note: 956

Page: 195-197
Date: 28. 8. 86.
Location: Adana
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i(0253 Suleyin T.) lunch.

1. No marriage - youngest sister unmarried; i(0254 Haci), i(0255 Meht.) and i(Sule). also unmarried. "K*yde kolay sehi*rdi ...."{?}.
2. On about difficulty - 'emir'. He wants a safe job. Experience. So finishing two jobs and still not sure.
Does not like going round in circle. "Bymek" {gl : socially aspiring}.
Will move to Istanbul - 5 years? Big people in Adana say this is normal. Kayserili come, stay 20 years, get rich and move on.
10 large contractors - fierce competition. "Ne ecir?" "Yari". {gl : "What do you get out of it?" "The competition"}
He seems unhappy and not pleased with his success; he is also personally and culturally adjusted to a very expensive lifestyle.

He talked about a hotel ..... of 2 to 3 milyar (2m. - 3m.) He has done investigation but if he runs the hotel, he has no experience, if he gets someone else,
the risk is enormous. He says the strain of worry and pressure is great and for this reason he has no new projects at the moment. His capital is mainly in
unsold daire {gl : apartments} - when he needs cash, he can sell, and keeping them unsold is "krl" {gl : profitable}. He is not going ahead with the ordinary
circle because he wants to break out into something new.
His comments that Istanbul offers a lot more opportunities for "bym*re" is interesting.
Istanbul attracts capital?

Education. He needs trustable technology, but he is clearly worried about his relative ignorance. i(0255 Mehmet) is better off in this.
*(He said "hepimiz kyder" {gl :?"all of us villagers"}- i(0255 Meht.) problems at lise were not serious)
But the point remains. He is worried about trusting the educated. [In Turkey people work with kin for this reason. He is right to be worried.]

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