Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) I mahi ahau i ngā mea katoa kia tae ki Uropi. He mea utu te tūponotanga, te tukino kino me te wehi, ahakoa he uaua ki te whakapono. Ko te kī noa iho, he pai ake taku oranga inaianei i taku i mua. Engari ehara i te mea ngawari taku haerenga puta noa i te Moana-a-Kiwa, pērā ki te mano o ētahi atu manene. Anei taku kōrero. I tīmata katoa i te mutunga o te tau kua hipa i te wā i ngaro ai taku mahi i Dubai. Kua pau taku visa mahi, a, kaore he wāhi atu hei haere. He Hiriani ahau, ā, ko te hokinga ki Hiria ehara i te kōwhiringa - ko te hoki atu ko te tikanga me whakamate koe, kia whakamatea rānei koe. Engari kaore e hiahiatia e nga Hiriani he uruwhenua kia uru atu ki Turkey, no reira ko Turkey. I tae atu ahau ki te whenua i te marama o Tihema me te moemoea tawhito i roto i toku hinengaro: te tae atu ki Uropi. I Istanbul, i kitea e au he maha nga wharangi Facebook mo te hokohoko kore ture mai i Turkey ki Itari ma te moana. I whakahuatia e ratou katoa ko Mersin, he pa tauranga i te rohe ki te tonga, te wāhi tīmatanga, nō reira i haere ahau ki reira. I tutaki ahau ki tetahi tangata Hiriani i roto i tetahi hotera i Mersin kua utua e ia he moni ki tetahi kaiwhawhai, a, e whakamahere ana ki te wehe atu i roto i etahi ra. I ki mai ia ki ahau he tangata pai tana kaipupuri, he tangata whai ingoa nui. Te ingoa: He mea whakamiharo ki te whakarongo mō te wā tuatahi, te whakaaro ko ēnei tāngata, i whakaarotia e au he hunga hara noa iho, e āwangawanga ana ki te whakaaro a te iwi ki a rātou. Engari he aha e kore ai? He pakihi wā roa tēnei, ā, kāore te pakanga o Hiria e mutu wawe tonu. Na ka whakatau ahau kia tutaki ki taua tangata. I kōrero mātou mō ngā tikanga utu, ā, i whakaae ki te utu $6,500. Ko ētahi o te moni ka whakatakotohia ki tētahi kamupene inihua, me ngā utu whakawhitiwhitinga noa. I taku taenga ki Itari ka tukuna atu te moni ki te kaipatu -- ki te huri whakaaro ahau, ka taea e au te whakahoki mai i etahi o aua moni. "Kia rite koe i te rā katoa, i ia rā mō ngā rā torutoru e whai ake nei, nā te mea ka tae mai pea te karanga kia haere koe", ko te kupu a te kaiwhawhai ki ahau. I tētahi ahiahi, i muri iho i ētahi rā torutoru, ka whiwhi au i te waea, ā, ka tīmata taku haerenga. I kohikohia e rātau he 100 tāne, he wāhine i roto i ngā pahi e rima, ā, i kawea mātou ki te wāhi whakaraupatu. He tawhiti atu i Mersin. I haere mātou mō te 30 meneti,...
Ka whakaahua a Moutassem Yazbek i te haerenga whakamataku 12 ra mai i Turkey ki Itari. Ko Yazbek, he rerenga nō Hiria, i utu i tētahi kaiwhawhai $6,500 kia kawea ia ki Itari i te marama o Tihema.