 | A Handbook for Living in Turkey
Pat Yale
Illustrations: Trici Venola
Ever thought of moving to Turkey but weren’t quite sure what living there would be like? Coming to Turkey for work and wonder how easy it will be to adopt what you may be unable to buy? Already living in the country but feeling bamboozled by the paperwork and unsure ... |
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 | Balconies of Istanbul
Sheree Barka
Oya Şengör
Have you ever walked the streets of Istanbul? Have you ever wondered what the balconies of Istanbul look like? Balconies of Istanbul has been prepared by the combined efforts of Sheree Barka and Oya Sengör. It is a selection of some of the most beautiful of the beautiful balconies for ... |
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 | Beyond the Orchard
Azize Ethem
Illustrations: Trici Venola
Readers of Cornucopia are familiar with the writing of Azize Ethem from her Village Voices, her delightful diary of daily life in İznik, where she and her husband Selim have built a home on the shores of Lake Ascania. Her earlier articles described life in their previous home in ... |
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 | Boğaz'dan...
Rhonda Vander Sluis
See the entry for From the Bosphorus for a description of this Turkish language guide to the Bosphorus Strait. ... |
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 | Byzantine Istanbul
Robert van den Graven
For over one thousand years, Constantinople thrived as the "New Rome," the capital of the Byzantine empire. During this time, the wealth of the empire was used to create masterpieces of architecture and art, many of which still remain in Istanbul to this day. Let this collection of pleasant walks ... |
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 | Embracing the Mountains
Süleyman Sağlam
To the authorities, he's an outlaw, to the people, a hero... But now Osman's life is on the line... Or is it? With Turkey in the midst of the Second World War, the city of Kayseri finds itself being depleted of men and resources. While the country contemplates ... |
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 | From the Bosphorus
Rhonda Vander Sluis
Richard Hinkle
Make your Bosphorus cruise come alive with this handy companion: From the Bosphorus: A Self-Guided Tour. This second, updated edition of From the Bosphorus will be your best friend as you make your way up and down the strait that has been called "the soul of Istanbul." Providing you with ... |
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 | From the Steeple to the Minaret
Hughette Eyupoglu
The memoirs of a Canadian bride in Turkey. In 1961 Hughette Bouffard, a native of small-town Canada, became the "gelin," or bride, of her long-time pen pal and friend Mehmet Eyuboğlu, son of two of Turkey's most illustrious artists, Bedri Rahmi and Eren Eyuboğlu. It is in the midst of ... |
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 | Istanbul's Bazar Quarter...BACKSTREET WALKING TOURS
Ann Marie Mershon and Edda Renker Weissenbacher
Istanbul teems with history, architecture, and culture. You'll discover them for yourself as you follow these routes through the seldom-explored streets around Istanbul's famous bazaars: The Garand Bazaar and Egyptian Spice Bazaar. Edda Renker Weissenbacher has wandered the bazaar district for decades, amassing a wealth of knowledge about these fascinating ... |
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 | Life with a View
Toni Sepeda
Life with a View: A Turkish Quest is the story of Toni Sepeda and her partner Craig, Americans who fall in love with Black Sea Turkey and decide to build a house with a “view of the sea” on the coast. Their heads filled with the legends of those who ... |
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 | Sinan Diaryz
Ann Pierpont
Pierpont’s book takes the reader on a tour of forty of Sinan’s most significant works, including mosques, imperial tombs, hamams, and caravansarays. More than just a guidebook, Sinan Diaryz is the outcome of Pierpont’s quest to learn more about the architect, his design sensibility and the milieu in which he ... |
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 | Stories from the Sandgate
Jaklin Çelik
This book of short stories brings to life the panorama that is Istanbul's historic Kumkapi, its Sandgate. We are enticed by these glimpses into the lives of Armenians, Kurds, and Turks who are pushed and pulled by the energy of this cosmopolitan neighborhood. You will be drawn in by the ... |
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 | Topkapi Palace - Inside and Out
Claire Karaz Ruoff
Illustrations: Murat Oğurlu
Topkapi Palace at your fingertips! Topkapı Palace Inside and Out is the latest in Çitlembik Publications’ series of innovative guidebooks for the inquisitive tourist in Turkey. Leading you on a step-by-step tour through the Topkapi Palace Museum and Grounds, this handy volume by art historian and professional guide Claire ... |
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 | Turkish Baths: A Light onto a Tradition and Culture
Orhan Yilmazkaya
Turkish Baths: A Light onto a Tradition and Culture, is a lively pictorial jaunt through the history, traditions and culture of the Turkish bath. Discover the bath's contribution to Islamic culture and health, its role in the social lives of sequestered Ottoman women, the tale of the street ruffians who ... |
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 | Uçhisar Unfolding
Evelyn Kopp
Uchisar Unfolding gives the reader a real insider's view of this Cappadocian village. More than a guidebook, it is a living history. With her knack for asking lots of questions, Evelyn Kopp has collected a treasury of the traditions and legends of this incredible and ancient settlement. She shares with ... |
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 | Village in the Meadows
Malcolm Pfunder
“Village in the Meadows…is a place that has gripped me tightly since I first saw it,” writes Malcolm Pfunder in his memoir about life in Turkey. This village of 600 in Turkey’s eastern Black Sea region was Pfunder’s home for nearly two years in the mid-1960s during his Peace Corps ... |
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