I was born in a little Turkish town on the coast of the Black Sea but I took my first baby steps here in Australia, and grew up in Sunshine. Growing up was hard for me. Although I was surrounded by Greeks and Maltese and Italians and many other nationalities, ours was the only Turkish family, and there were not many other Muslims. There was also nobody Turkish I felt I could look up to in society or in the media. As a result, I always wanted to be more Australian. I remember I used to come home to what . . .
I was born in a little Turkish town on the coast of the Black Sea but I took my …
