February 2012
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Turkishtime Interview with Ara Güler [December 2002, reprinted at mymerhaba.com]
The following is the interview with famous Turkish photographer Ara Güler published in December 2002 issue of the Turkishtime. (Ara Güler - Photo: Turkishtime).
What is it that’s important about me The walls are covered with signed autographs of people whom we see the pictures of in...
January 2012
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22/01/2012 Language without a childhood
A tribute to the writing of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, whose novels have made Berlin greater, more expansive, warmer. By Harald Jähner
It’s not necessarily boring to watch a film in a language you don’t understand. You concentrate all the more on other elements of the film, gestures, body language, the landscapes, extras. Someone who doesn’t...
“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
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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...