![]() She struggled with her mathematics degree. She considered taking to the stage. She spoke to a poster of Jacques Cousteau about a life in the sea. ![]() No matter how hard Samanci worked to comply, sister Pelin set a near-impossible pace for achievement. Throughout the rest of her youth into young adulthood in Turkey, Samanci would be told that the right education would be the key to a secure feature: “to study engineering or medicine at a prestigious university a good job, mak lots of money, and be powerful,” her schoolteacher father reminded her at regular intervals. And then, finally, “When I started primary school everybody was relieved.” So enticing was Pelin’s world of learning, Samanci would throw “little monster”-like tantrums on the floor, forget to complete her errands, and even sneak into her sister’s classroom on her own. At age 6, Özge Samanci was desperate to be “on the other side of the binoculars” – that is, to be at school, being watched by her mother from across the street, just as she and her mother occasionally spotted and waved at her older sister Pelin, age 8, during recess. ![]()
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