The Alevis are not the only ones who have taken notice of the
cranes. To the average Anatolian, the crane’s journey is that
between the foreign land and the homeland, and sometimes that
homeland lies beyond roads, and sometimes beyond borders.
Some have asked for sugar, cream, and honey with the Allı Turna,*
from the foreign lands where they have gone to work, while others
have asked the Gurung** for word of family and friends in distant, now unreachable lands.
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