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When her income from property in Smyrna (Izmir, Turkey) stopped reaching London, the author went to Turkey to investigate and fell in the clutches of a small Mafia who promptly relieved her of the lot - houses, land and money in the bank. They took advantage of her ignorance of the language and the mentality of the people. Although they threatened her and eliminated some of those who tried to help her, she remained and fought to defeat them. This is her story.

The author took to writing late in life. She had been mainly interested in art so far, and dress designing, which she did in Paris years ago. Then in the war she joined the Free French Forces of General de Gaulles in London, was sent to North Africa in a convoy and returned to London to land in Normandy in August 1944. After being demobbed she briefly worked in French films in London, doing sub-titles and organising film Premières. It was in the course of having to write synopsis for those films that she thought of taking to writing her multiple adventures through life. She somehow has a way of attracting events one way or another.

When she arrived in Smyrna in the 1960s, the attitude to foreigners was still favourable but it soon changed when young Turks returned from Europe. They decided they could do better (so they thought). The antagonism to Europeans became untenable to make them leave. Thus a Turk was introduced to her to deal with collecting rents and such. He promptly realised that as she could not read Turkish and only spoke the language to get about, he could easily swindle her, which he proceeded to do. After which he thought it might make things easier for him still if she were to disappear from his scene, and also those of her tenants that were Europeans and tried to help her. He never imagined she would stay and fight back, which she did against odds.

Although she managed to get him to Court it soon became clear that her lawyer was bribed, and also the judge. She moved to Istanbul and took the best lawyers there but they soon found travelling to and fro too difficult and engaged a local lawyer who was promptly bribed.

And so in the end she had to give up and leave. The Crook meanwhile died a short time after, perhaps under too much stress, for his younger son, the apple of his eye, who was brought up to share in his father's shady deals, developed a liking for them and turned terrorist. When he was caught the picture in the papers was of a young desperado and quite unrecognisable. He is languishing in a Turkish gaol.

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Katherine Creon has 2 published books

• I met a Turk
  
• The River Of Gems
  

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