Public Hospital Relay Race

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Posted on March 30, 2011 by sobesan
  I know I can’t keep comparing my own country to Turkey, but since Turkish prime minister has turned into some little napoleon and keeps pounding himself on the chest for all the wonderful things he and his party is, and has been doing, they might want to spent some money and time on improving the health care system for the PEOPLE of this nation. Luckily for me in all the years that I’ve been here I’ve never had to go to hospital and just visited a clinic or a private facility for .......Then what happened?...
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The good, bad & ugly

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Posted on January 20, 2011 by sobesan
  Lately I’m finding it hard to write anything positive. I know I can be quite negative on this blog sometimes, and that’s usually because I write about things that upset me or that I just don’t grasp about this country or the culture….the dark pit of frustration! And even though this will not be the most up-beat thing I’ve posted on here, it is something positive….in a way. I’ve written and tweeted many times about the streetdogs here, or how dogs are being treated, it .......Then what happened?...
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Appreciate – part 2

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Posted on January 5, 2011 by sobesan
  I’ve been quiet for a bit, a new year has begun and somehow that makes me always a bit more gloomy than happy. This new year didn’t start off very well and made me re-think a few things about life here in Turkey and life in general. On the first day of the new year, a wonderful person that I had the privilege of knowing, decided life was too painful for her to continue. That news came as a shock, as most news of that kind does and for a while I felt devastated and deeply sad. Dealing .......Then what happened?...
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