Source: The Boston Globe
On September 29, 2005 The Boston Globe reported, "Moving to Lawrence, [Massachusetts] from Turkey seven years ago, Kemal Bozkurt felt more at home than he ever imagined. In northern Massachusetts, he found mosques, Islamic centers, and Muslim doctors. He located grocery stores that sold foods from Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and immigration lawyers who specialized in relative petitions. The main problem, Bozkurt soon discovered, was the lack of a local directory for Muslims to find all these businesses. The only way he could find familiar foods and religious items was through word of mouth, or just plain luck. The former advertising salesman for a Turkish radio station saw an opening... He made a few phone calls, visited mosques, and chatted up business owners who jumped at his idea of creating a directory of Muslim-owned businesses. In 2003, he published 3,500 copies of his first edition of the 'Green Pages' -- a 16-page directory of Muslim businesses around Lawrence... Last March, Bozkurt published 11,000 copies of a 92-page edition that has been distributed around New England. In addition to local businesses, the directory now has international and online businesses from Connecticut to the Middle East... Next year, Bozkurt said, he plans on publishing 21,000 copies of a 132-page edition."