Young Turks look eastward to a Chinese future

ISTANBUL-"My greatest dream is to continue my life in China. I want to move there, get a job, and start a family maybe, and live there," Reyhan Hamamcioglu, an 18-year-old student of Chinese language from Turkey's western province of Izmir, says.

Hamamcioglu developed a growing interest in China during her high school years, when she was looking for more information about the country and realized that the vast Eastern Asian nation had preserved its origins and authenticity.

"Even though every country changes and resembles each other, I think China will always preserve its own essence. I want to witness this originality," she says.