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A Night Walk in the Forest/Yushki-Ukraine “Incredible!” I shouted at my grandfather, which was the thing I remembered as I left the little village of Yushki situated in the province of Kiev of Ukraine late in the evening on my way to my tent. The moment I remembered on that way was a time I experienced about 30 years ago then and 40 now. I am never into races, nationalities, and any identities that put difference and illusions into the mind of humans. When I said, “Incredible,” to my grandfather, who died in 1985, I was in the village of Koyunyeri of the district of Çan of the province of Canakkale. The village populace is Yoruks just like those of my mother’s village in Adana. As the Yoruks are immigrants who came to Anatolia from Asia about a millennium ago, and who were Turkish nomads wandering around the continent, I could say I have roots relating to the Turks, as the country is considered one. As in everywhere in Turkey, villages have coffeehouses, which serve tea, usually ...

A Great Side Dish Recipe: Greens Salad (with a Technique)

A Great Side Dish Recipe: Greens Salad (with a Technique) The side dish we would like to recommend this time is a salad full of health, made of the plants we chose as of 28 February around the Mediterranean. You may prefer your favorite ones or the ones available in your region but, for this salad, we chose the following ingredients: 1-Sorrel 2-Scallions 3- Parsley 4- Nettle 5- Tomato (not in its seasonal taste of July and following few months but it is OK for us) 6- Rock or sea or Himalaya salt 7- Olive oil 8- (Optional) mint and sumac 9- (Optional) some pomegranate or pomegranate syrup 10- (Optional) vinegar or lemon A salad making technique: We would like to mention a technique of making a salad. We first saw it from a video of Ayhan Sicimoglu , a Turkish musician, traveler, and TV star. The film he shows the technique is in the Turkish language and about making musakka, a shared delicacy of the Greek and Turkish cultures. Into a plastic bag: Cut the s...

Days in Kirklareli 3

Turkey: Days in Kirklareli 3 The old station building offers delicate architectural touches just like all other old stations and their appurtenances in Turkey; for example, Sirkeci Station on the European side and Haydarpasa on the Asian side of Istanbul. Actually, the town has some partial similarities with some of the Eastern European towns, not surprisingly as it is very close to the border in terms of cross-border influences and cross-cultural transfer of knowledge regarding handcraft, manners of living, worshipping, entertainment, food etc. In the town that has kept on its existence since the Neolithic despite the endless raids, invasions, and sieges and although it has one of the highest socio-economical development levels of Turkey (11 of 81 provinces), the randomly scattered buildings hiding the architectural values as in neighboring Edirne, accompanied by the infrastructure problems, make it difficult to discover exactly what is available ...

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