Stepping On Bread
| Toker is speaking literally. The daughter of an Armenian mother and a Kurdish father, Toker, 48, grew up in dirt-poor villages in eastern Turkey. There was never enough to eat, and her parents made sure she learned three things: never to lie, never to steal, and to always obey. |
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| These days Toker lives in Germany, like an estimated 6 million other foreigners. Her office in the three-bedroom apartment she shares with her teen-age daughter is strewn with books and papers. A fax machine hums in the hallway, spewing out paper. Toker still doesn't lie or steal. But she makes a habit of not obeying. Not obeying racist Germans, not obeying Islamic crusaders, and not obeying anyone who tries to take away her dignity and freedom.
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