Ulukaya: Kurdish Nomadic Community Lived Isolated From Modern Society
Hamdi Ulukaya · Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya · Nov 14, 2022 · at 4:46
Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya describes his childhood upbringing during the 1970s and 1980s in a semi-nomadic Kurdish community in eastern Turkey.
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“The nomads were really isolated from the everyday life. We kind of, we were kind of people like from Mars, really. We would come to town and buy our flowers and sugars and whatever it is, and then the second we are done, we are on our horses and mules and we are up in the mountains, right? So we don't get involved with anything. And the only thing that we has exposed to stories outside of that little town and The mountains is the people who come back from the big cities, whether for military service that they have done, or they travel for a reason of selling the cheese, or bought some grains, and they will come up with stories and what they saw, but we really were very much isolated from the reality of lives.”
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