Kep left Turkey when he was eighteen. He came to the UK to study English so that he could help run his father’s business importing and exporting textiles in Istanbul. The plan was to stay for just two months but somehow Kep found himself settling here permanently. “Life you never know, is full of surprises,” he told us. “It was supposed to be two months but it’s been over twenty years now and I’m still here!”
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