After my father died, the future ceased to be an idea belonging to some distant tomorrow. It became an immediate question: What was to become of me?

My father, Circis Kurt Haninke, was unlike anyone else I knew in the world of my childhood.

Enhil was a rural Assyrian village in a neglected region of southeastern Turkey. Most people lived from the land, and formal education was rare. Books, newspapers and other sources of knowledge were difficult to obtain. Yet my father possessed an intellectual curiosity that seemed boundless.

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