Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner
Description
“The longer you stay away, the harder it is to go back,” said Zaynep Turk in 2009. Turk came to Maine to study at the University of Maine at Machias, got her M.B.A. at Orono, and worked her way up in a successful career in banking and trade. In choosing to remain in the United States, she has given up a lot: more time with her family, a more settled life, and an easier emotional road. “You give up that wholeness,” she says.
“I’m definitely a Turk. I don’t want to lose that identity. But I see America as a second home. Zeynep Turk immigrated from Turkey to Maine, and as of 2017 works as a senior trade specialist for the Maine International Trade Center in Portland.
About This Item
- Title: Zeynep Turk, Portland, 2009
- Creator: Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest
- Creation Date: 2009
- Subject Date: 2017
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Locations:
- Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Turkey
- Media: Digital photograph
- Object Type: Image
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- Emigration & immigration--United States
- Emigration and immigration--Turkey
- Immigrants
- Immigrants--United States--Maine--Portland
- Language education--Maine--Portland
- University of Maine, Machias
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