Dutch in Translation

Having never left the place she was born and her only known home, one day Merve packed everything and said goodbye to Turkey. She'd lived in Ankara her whole life, but just as a river's flow takes new bends and bifurcates into streams, so did the life of Merve and her husband. A shared project, they took the leap by moving to the Netherlands in 2017. A year later, our Turkish expat found complete bliss by changing careers: from business administration to horeca medewerker. And you know what? She couldn't be happier!  What's her view on life?  How did she manage to take the jump and reinvent herself?  Here's her story. Back in Turkey: business analyst at an ERP consultancy company Before moving to Eindhoven, Merve lived in Ankara, working for the last five years in the IT industry as a support specialist. A ccording to what was expected from a business administration graduate, or what was expected of her, she had  a nice job, stable and steady. The software company