Huseyin Kayaturan came to Amsterdam from Turkey on 7 August 1970, where he worked at NDSM. He shares the reason for keeping the suitcase he traveled to the Netherlands with at the time. As he points out in the video, it was his first friend in a new country; they arrived here together.

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The audio is only available in Dutch.

Credits:

The video portraits were made by documentary filmmaker Fadime Demir and commissioned by the Amsterdam Museum. They were previously shown during the Amsterdam Museum's 2012 exhibition Turkish Pioneers in Amsterdam.