At 5 o’clock in the morning, before most people have even opened their eyes, Dudu and her 20-year-old daughter Hatice are already hard…
On a sunny April day in 2015 I decided to go in search of Frenk Caddesi, the old Frank (Foreigners) Street that was…
“You were the land of black roses. What happened to your land, Halfeti? You surrendered yourself to concrete-walled waters. What happened to your…
Row upon row of featureless summer houses with piles of builders’ rubble abandoned in between them. A giant branch of the cut-price supermarket…
Yellow, gold, russet, red, crimson, orange and brown. As summer segues seamlessly into autumn, so the woodlands put on one last show-stopping display…
Advertisers – don`t you just love them? There you are on the ski slopes of Kayseri, gazing up at crusty old Mt Erciyes…
Once upon a time there was a small town called Demre on the south coast of Turkey midway between Fethiye and Antalya. Demre…
Imagine extraordinary “fairy chimney” pinnacles of rock with capstones perched on top of them. Imagine deep gorges with streams meandering between shady poplar…
That was the day that was! Last Tuesday I woke late to hear the next-door hotel’s generator roaring away. Concluding that the electricity…
Erol was a cheery chappie. I’d been assigned him as a driver when I ventured into the Belediye in Palu, near Elazığ, to…