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Palestine

My daughter, who has just learned to read,
Has developped a passion for knowing the world,
A map in her hands, she asks me:
- Where is Palestine, dad?

The world that has buried justice in property
doesn't give any place to Palestine in its map
and the power of the words
cannot go deep into the suffers,

- How should I answer to your question, my child,
I don't know!

Although it doesn't have any place in the maps,
Palestine is every colour that patriotic love arouses,
and the place where every bunch of grapes turns yellow...

Palestine is,
The orphan home of the loves,
The morning star in the exile,
It's a belief;

For the children, is it enough to tell that?
While a door left ajar
is not enough to go out onto the streets.

- How should I answer to your question my child,
I don't know!..."

It's an average translation, though I think it'll serve you...

"My brother,
I could just now check the mails, so I couldn't answer back, sorry. I'm gonna send you my resume. I couldn't understand what "cover letter" means Yesterday, I started to work in my ex-company to complete the "definite/final account" I'm off in the weekends for I work in the central office. I have 10-15 day-work there. Actually, I was waiting news from you. As I stated before, I want a permanent proper job with certain vacations etc. Whether you help or not, may God be pleased with you already now, my brother. I'm sure you'll do your best.
I'm also thinking about coming to US. And you have thought well about Ãœmre (going to hadj). İnşallah. But, it's also a fact that I'll be unemployed after 10-15 days. In fact, it's not a problem to find a job in the natural gas sector, but as you know it's such a busy job and there would be no time left for myself, I don't consider it too much. But ofcourse, if I feel obliged to do it, I'll work. In other words, my brother, as you'll understand, we've to deal with the job thing first. Then, if we can have a regular life, it'll be easy to share time for the things you mentioned. I haven't heard about the certificate thing in the Mortgage system. And I don't know what kind of advantages this certificate would get us. Here, there's no such education, and common people can easily get credit with this system as they buy a house.
When are you coming to the country? If you let me know, I'll be happy. I'd like you to bring me a laptop when you come. A reasonable priced, but large functioned one. A laptop with wide screen where I could work on Auto-cad etc.
Anyway, I think I've wanted too much from you, my brother. Stay well. Whatever happens, remember that you're my brother...
PS. I think it'd be better if you send me my resume in turkish as I have nearly no english, you know. Don't let them think that I know english."

and for dried herbs like thyme, people call them "baharat". Maybe you don't call them spice.

It's just come to my mind.

I think "yeşillik" is used for fresh herbs like parsley, dill, fresh mint, romaine...

yeşil means green and "yeşillik" is derived from it.
the plural is yeşillikler.

"I didn't take your adress from anyone. But it was very easy to find. I wanted to add you and added. But if you don't want to meet me or talk to me, you can delete me from your list."

There are too many of them on msn. I warn you they're too sticky

Then it's a pity
Because when I think of myself, the best thing for me to learn a language is to go to a course where they guide me and motivate me. Otherwise, you have to be very planned. And I guess it's a bit hard to find turkish material.
You're in the beginner level, you just see turkish on the screen so I don't know if you know how to pronounce the words (maybe you know??), so you need to find a lot of audio material.