“Kaz var (We have goose),”‘ say the signs in restaurant windows which is enough to make anyone except a vegetarian start licking their…
It’s a story that has become set in stone. It goes something like this. In 2008 sculptor Mehmet Aksoy started work on a…
“Thunder Hill” Population : 175 In the far northeastern corner of Turkey, a dramatic castle bestrides a gorge near the village…
“Cutting Oil” Population: negligible Of all the forgotten Armenian churches scattered around the villages near Ani perhaps the most impressive is the…
Bagratid Armenia’s splendid abandoned capital Set on a headland above the valley of the Arpa Çayı river right on the border with Armenia, the…
Battlefield town …
Setting for Orhan Pamuk’s novel Kar (Snow) Population: 91,500 Stranded in the north-eastern corner…
Roughly delineated by an imaginary line drawn south from Trabzon on the Black Sea coast through Erzincan to Tunceli and then heading east…