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Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is a reproduction. Arzu Arda Kosar was born in Turkey in 1970 and came to the U.S. in 1989 to attend the University of Pittsburgh. There she met and married fellow student Erol Kosar, a first-generation Turkish-American. They moved to Southern California in 1992 when Erol was named a fellow in USC�s cardiology department. He later established his own cardiology practice in Torrance, CA. Arzu was cultural affairs chair of the local Turkish American Association. Erol Kosar, fat left, and his colleagues in the Internal Medicine Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Turks Turkish Americans Men Women Physicians Medical instruments and apparatus Pittsburgh (Pa.) Shades of L.A. Collection photographs Shades of L.A. Turkish American photographs
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