Guides for Turkish culture, language, people, and anything about Turkey.
I was walking down a street in Meydan, Trabzon, A city center on the Black Sea coastline of northeast Turkey, when I first saw a Turkish towel in a shop. I instantly loved the appearance, the delicacy, and the hard work that must have gone into making this flat-weave masterpiece. It was so light that … Read more
Turkish towels are excellent, but you may easily ruin your towel by not knowing their properties and how to wash them properly. Some of my international friends even called me about how awful Turkish towels are, yet I am 100% sure that they did not wash the Turkish towels as they should. I will tell … Read more
As a Turkish local, my international friends ask me a lot of questions, like why Turkish figs are different or why most of the dried figs are labeled as Turkish figs, and many more similar questions. I may not be a professional expert, but I live in the region where nearly half of the fig … Read more
As a Turkish person, I even asked myself this question several times. Let me give you the facts, and then As a Turkish, I will share my thoughts on Turkey’s cultural alignment between Europe and the Middle East. The main dilemma about Europe being a continent is Europe is not actually a continent but a … Read more
In this article, I will explain my thoughts on why Turkey is culturally European, with not much known but very specific examples.
Turkey is not one of the embraced Western values. Turkey has contributed vastly to the creation of European culture.
In this article, I will explain my thesis with not much known but very specific examples.
In this article, as a Turkish, I explained racial, cultural and social differences between Arabs and Turkish people.
As a Turkish, I have not given much thought to if Turkey is considered in the Middle East, but today a business form asked me if my country is in the Middle East or not. I was puzzled, and the question made me uneasy about accepting Turkey as a Middle Eastern country. Here is a … Read more
In this blog, you can find official census definitions of Turkish people by the US, UK, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Governments. Plus more information about being a Turkish. I am a Turkish born and raised in Izmir, Western Turkey. Until I went to London for a postgraduate law degree, I had never thought of my … Read more
In this article, I will explain classical definitions of first, second, and third-world descriptions and give information about how developed Turkey is compared to other first-world and third-world countries.
Istanbul is the melting pot of many cultures and the capital of many empires. Since ancient times, Istanbul has been an essential part of world history than most countries. In Istanbul, you can see traditions and cultures which are hundreds or even thousands of years old. The number of languages spoken in Istanbul also reflects … Read more