KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - When Myasar Khalil Ali fled Islamic State with his family three years ago one of the handful of possessions he was able to take were green eggplant seeds, which have germinated into a profitable small business.
The Iraqi, who once ran a photocopying business in the mainly Turkmen town of Tal Afar, grows the green eggplants next to the blue tarpaulin of Yahyawa camp, in the Lilan district of Kirkuk where he now lives.
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