January 2012
27 posts
“Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and as sweet as love.”
– Old Turkish Proverb (via a-cup-of-joe)
Kahve Dunyasi Turkish chain’s flagship store in W1 Time Out (UK) December 15, 2011, p. 34 Guy Dimond
Kahve Dunyasi is a huge coffee bar chain, with 200 stores in Turkey. If you imagine Starbucks melted into a mid-range chocolatier, you’re on the right track. This first London store is heavily branded in the US way, rather than charming in the Anatolian way ; but once you get over the...
December 2011
17 posts
December 14, 2011
House Hunting in … Turkey By NINA ROBERTS
A SEVEN-BEDROOM WOODEN HOUSE ON AN ISLAND OFF ISTANBUL
$1.5 MILLION (2,742,371 TURKISH LIRA)
This 1920s-era house is on tranquil Buyukada, the largest of the nine Princes’ Islands, 12 miles off Istanbul. It has two stories and about 3,800 square feet of space, on a 12,400-square-foot property on the island, which does not...
Why France is so illiberal?
“I do not think I have ever met a Frenchman who was a liberal,” the late French literary critic Émile Faguet once ironically remarked. If he lived today, he could have preserved his pessimism, especially in the light of the latest work of the French National Assembly: A new law which penalizes “the denial of the Armenian Genocide” with a year in prison and a heavy...
via kirmizinokta:
Hürriyet Daily News Turkey gets F grade in English [December/22/2011]
A study by the research foundation TEPAV, which warns about poor foreign language skills in Turkish society, claims a better English education would support economic growth
A group of young people are seen during a class at an English school in Istanbul. The level of English is important in terms of...
November 2011
31 posts
