Another big company in Germany has revealed a couple of months ago (October 2013) their family firm’s past links to Germany’s Nazi party. In the long interview with the Die Zeit newspaper, the head of the company August Oetker said, “My father was a National Socialist”.
‘My leaves are my eyes, I look in amazement
I watch you with one hundred thousand eyes, I watch Istanbul
Like one hundred thousand hearts, beat, beat my leaves
I am a walnut tree in Gülhane Park
Neither you are aware of this, nor the police’
– Nazım Hikmet –
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Semra Eren-Nijhar 