It was a coincidence when the inventor of “Doner Kebap” Kadir Nurman died last month in October at the age of 80, while I was visiting Berlin. The city which was famous for its wall dividing east from west became the first city in Europe in 1972 to sell grilled meat and salad in wrapped flatbread (pide), which is now popular worldwide. Doner was one of the famous, affordable and nutritional snack in Berlin while I was living there, as it is today.

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I couldn’t even write a single sentence about Omay Gençsoy after she left us for permanent rest. An obituary is normally written shortly after the death of a person, but I couldn’t bring myself to write one. Perhaps I knew, as Irving Berlin would say, “the song came to an end but for me the song continued lingering.”

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