""My whole life I've wanted to know him," the 21-year-old told BBC London. "I got to a state where I accepted I wasn't going to meet him." Mr Archer said he struck up a conversation with the man in the shop in Ladbroke Grove on 27 October after hearing him speaking Turkish on the phone."
"All he knew about his father was his first name, his height, and that he was a "nice man from Istanbul". "How chatty I am in general, I just started a conversation," he said. After hearing that the man's family was from Istanbul, Mr Archer said he replied: "Oh, my dad is from Istanbul." Oliver Archer Mr Archer said he introduced himself properly to the man, and they shook hands and exchanged names."
Oliver Archer was posting parcels in a corner shop in Ladbroke Grove when a man speaking Turkish entered. Archer struck up a conversation after hearing Turkish and mentioned that his father was from Istanbul. He knew only his father's first name, height, and that he was a "nice man from Istanbul." After introductions and exchanged names, Archer asked if the man knew a woman by his mother's name; the man replied he had known her "20-odd years ago." Archer then told him he thought he might be his son, and the man appeared to recognize him and had a photograph of him as a baby with his paternal grandmother.
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