Tacettin Fidan

I was born on February 1, 1959 and was nicknamed "Dean" by my parents, who had migrated from the Balkans and resettled near Istanbul, soon after WWII--my father was an Army General [Highland Volunteers] for the King [Zog I] of Albania during the war. I grew up in a small but scenic Turkish village, which was then called Soganlik (Oniony) near the town of Kartal, until I was thirteen years old. Subsequently, I moved to America and made USA my …