The warm weather encourages many to spend the next few months on their houseboats in Berlin's Spree River. It's a tidy mix of well-heeled retirees, spendthrift rich kids, and floaters like Cahit Aslan who has nowhere to live, no health insurance or bank account.
“You know when a boy reaches the age of five in my village, he is given a dog, a gun and a horse, I had all three,” Cahit told“My dad was the first generation of 'Gastarbeiter', we moved to Germany when I was nine, nearly 50 years ago, the welcome we got then was very warm, because we were here to build the country, there was only a small opposition at that time over guest workers coming from Turkey to Germany.
He dropped out of school and became a musician, “I also started smuggling paints and books and musical instruments from West Germany into East Germany, it got me a lot of money then”. “I did well at work”, he said, adding that he could not get rid of the constant racism he faced in everyday life. But it wasn't just that one attack, but a lifetime of being rejected and ostracised that pushed him into a cold corner. “It's the way they look at you, you can see the hate in their eyes,” Cahit said.During his last job as an architect, his client didn't have enough money to pay him so he offered a boat., Cahit accepted and thus started a new chapter in his life.
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