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I’ve just added pictures that I took around Istanbul’s Taksim Square in the evening of May 1 – here.
I, of course, wanted to post them right away, and write about how surreal it all seemed even after it was long over (I missed the bedlam that took place in the afternoon – read this post [...]
It’s really awesome to be around people who love kids and aren’t afraid to show it. In Istanbul, Marta receives dozens of smiles and hugs daily; she’s heard the Turkish phrase “çok güzel, maşaallah” (“very beautiful, mashaallah“) so many times, she knows how to say it herself by now; and today three people have given [...]
Mehmet Öztekin, a gramophone repairman and collector, in his shop at Grand Bazaar. He played an Edith Piaf song for us, very moving.
A little bit more about him is here.
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There’s another store at Grand Bazaar that I love – Deli Kızın Yeri/The Crazy Lady’s Place. I keep buying toys for Marta there.
Saw this barge at Ortaköy today:
“Знамя Октября” – “The Banner of October” – passing through the Bosporus under the Turkish flag (two of them, actually)…
A Russian (or, perhaps, a Ukrainian, Belarusian, or Moldovan?) in Istanbul on March 14.
She was trying to figure out how to buy a jeton – and she was being so slow that a perfectly Soviet line eventually formed behind her.
Here’s one of the things she asked the Turkish guy who was trying to [...]
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