Nurettin Kurbik (Denise's owner) testifies on threats and licensing issues

My name is Nurettin Kurbik.

I'm Turkish.

I'm in the United States 26 years.

In 1999, I came to the United States.

I'm a horse carriage driver and owner.

Last 10 years as owner.

Dennis was my horse that poisoned me.

I'm still getting threatened from social media.

Even people knew it.

I'm getting a message.

They said, we know where you work.

Not hard to find your address, is they saying that.

I'm just keeping, I never answer nobody, any message.

I'm pushing myself to work, a very hard situation for me.

And even they knew what's happened.

I'm in this business over 20 years.

I know a sick horse giving a sign.

It's just, you know, looking back and the air is back and trying to lie down.

Dennis was very held to horse before dying, two minutes before, until two minutes before.

Horse died in two minutes, very quick.

It just shook the body.

I thought he's trying to pee, something happened.

I have a customer, two customers, I said, please get out, something going wrong.

I see that he just lied down and very quick died.

So it's still threatening us really badly from crazy animal activities, not just us.

Even this city, for example, the horse driver exam was four times a year always before COVID.

They started to do once a year.

Now it's like two, whatever they want.

They're treating us like they don't like us.

And the one is the exam.

Only 25 chairs that you can get a horse driver exam.

The one of them, 2024, is only six of them passed a test, as two of them passed the writing one, and only one passed practical exam.

She was an Ecuadorian veterinary doctor.

You have to wrap it up.

Easier than become a PhD, NYU or Columbia University, become a horse driver license getting in the city.

There is no option that the Turkish, because American kids, they don't want the kind of job as they have more chance to do it.

This is immigrant job.

Please help us.

We have to have a good driver.

We can help them.

Okay.

Thank you.