If there’s one staple food that defines Turkey it is not the kebab but the humble loaf of bread (ekmek) that accompanies every…
Mehmed Vedat Tek (1873-1942) was one of the architects most closely associated with the movement that came to be known as First National…
Walking around Turkish towns you may occasionally see men with a mother rabbit and several babies sitting on a box beside little slips…
As all over the world, traditional handicrafts are dying an ever faster death in Turkey as the life-style they were part of gives…
At one time Turkey had a large minority population of Yezidis, mainly living in the far southeast. The mainly Kurdish Yezidis are often…
The Nestorian Christians took their name from Nestorius (c.386-450), Archbishop of Constantinople from 428 to 431, whose beliefs were condemned as heretical by the…
Almost every visitor to İstanbul gets to hear about the great Ottoman architect Sinan. Far fewer hear about the extraordinary Balyans, even though…
In 2013 the long awaited tunnel beneath the Bosphorus known as the Marmaray finally opened and immediately transformed the İstanbul transport scenario. Now,…
Very little information exists about the Turkish Roma community that is especially conspicuous in Thracian towns such as Kirklareli. Officially it’s said to…
Born into a relatively poor Tokat family in 1833, Gazi Osman grew up to become one of Turkey’s most famous soldiers, serving in…