when i went back, to istanbul as i was older, doing different things, i always used to go to topkapi museumat john the baptist�*s hand because i thought it was fantastic. tell more about that background. you said your father was turkish, you were living in margate, your parents were running a hotel? yes, they had a hotel. my dad, being turkish cypriot, he came to england in 1948, he came on a £10 ticket, so it wasn't just west indian people that came, it was people from all over the colonies, and cyprus was one of them, and my dad came here in 1948 and he was on his way to australia to see his cousins and he stopped off in england, and his cousins sent him a telegram saying, "don't come to australia, you won't get in, your skin "is too dark," because they had the whites—only thing up until about 1956. my dad was really dark—skinned because my great—great—grandfather was from sudan, and he was a slave in the ottoman empire. have you always known that? yes, my background is not anglo—saxon, and i have never been brought up in an anglo—saxon way, really. so my dad, all his friends, they said,