There are a lot of shoe polishers in Istanbul.
We met those 3 on the first day; they were very friendly and seriously intrigued by our activity. The tall one could speak a good English and explained to me that they were Kurds and what their job was etc…
There is over 13 millions people in this city but I saw this guy almost everyday. The last day I met him in an Internet café playing network games. That’s how he learned English. I realized that Internet could save people like him; the modern world may be not this bad?