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in the cemeteries of old American industrial towns. One confined rows of gravestones card with the Muslim star and crescent. Some of the graves even have poetry written in autumn in Turkish. Who were these people? Why did they come to America and why have they been for gotten? The graves? Unfortunately, cannot speak, and their families, whether in Turkey, Lebanon or Syria may not even know where they are buried. As Dr Isil Assan was studying to become a historian in Turkey, she was always puzzled why American history books rarely talked about Turkish and Kurdish immigrants. Usually the historians ignored them completely. And other immigrants from the Ottoman Empire Armenians, Greeks, Jews and Syrians also received little attention. Americans know almost nothing about the role that these people played in the development of their country. Immigrants from the Middle East don't have holidays like ST Patrick's Day or Columbus Day, and they aren't in any famous movies like Gone With the Wind and The Godfather. Doctor Isola Sahan made it her mission to tell the story of the Ottoman peoples in America, and this is not a story that can be discovered Onley in libraries or online. It is found in graveyards, in the streets and in the ruins of old factories. Let's join her to discover this lost history of Ottoman America. American scholar Todd Fine, an expert on the Manhattan neighborhood of Little Syria, will join us first. We will take you to the heart of the Ottoman Immigration, the New England state of Massachusetts.