MY TEACHER SELF VS MY STUDENT SELFFor teachers, the start of the year is not January, rather September, when the schools open. I am back to school, yet as a student this time. Apart from being stripped off the title I have earned in earnest over a decade,...
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The Syrian consulate is here in Nişantaşı. For a while I worked in a beautiful art-nouveau building, the Ralli, where the consulate is located. I was fresh out of the university daydreaming of travelling abroad; taking long trips around the world....
CONFESSIONS OF A BLOGGER...Up until two months ago, I spent my life bragging about my being creative. The creativity inherent even in seemingly trivial things such as wrapping gifts or dressing the salad. I had a good eye for details, or for good bargains,...
Click on the arrows to view more photos. A couple of years ago, I was having a late lunch in a tradesmen restaurant in Mecidiyeköy. I am all ears in such restaurants; this is one way to get a feel of the times. A retired army officer...
THE SYMPOSIUM ON THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCEFinally 10 years after Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Nobel Laureate started writing the story of Kemal and Füsun, the museum, which bears the same name as the book, opened. Right after its opening, a symposium focusing...
JUST MEMORIES...More than a decade ago, when the words "Galata" and "gentrification" were used in the same sentence, it did not mean much to me; I did not see it coming. There was not a single soul in the back streets, and it would give me a chill ...
THE PIAZZA GALATAIt is a late summer we are having in Istanbul. We used to have clear-cut seasons when I was a kid here, I remember. I could distinguish the spring breeze from the fall breeze, or I believed I could do so, hahahah! For this kind of breeze,...
19 May is the day Atatürk, the founding father of Turkey, arrived in Samsun and started the Turkish War of Independence in 1919. Since 1933, this historic day is dedicated to the young people and has been celebrated officially nationwide. His speech...
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