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The pain of losing your mother tongue
Writer Ece Temelkuran describes the struggle to maintain her Turkish language while writing in English. She now lives in Croatia's capital Zagreb and she discusses the pain of beginning to forget basic words in her mother tongue.
(Photo: a view of Istanbul in snow Credit: OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)
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