Hezarfen - Ahmed Celebi, story of a bird man
Hezarfen-Ahmed Çelebi | Wikimedia A cold sweat wraps him and the blood and his…
Istanbul, crawling across the rooftops of Büyük Valide Han
If anyone doubts that Istanbul is a city in which having the sense of adventure…
Walking along the european Bosphorus coast: Bebek and Arnavutköy
Istanbul never cease to amaze me. In a city of nearly fifteen million…
Osman Hamdi Bey: godfather of turkish art and culture
Portrait Osman Hamdi Bey | Wikimedia Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910) was an…
Sahaflar Çarşisi, the old Istanbul book market
I already talked in a previous post about the Sahaflar Çarsisi or antique books…
Corlulu Ali Pasha teashop in Istanbul
Walking along the Divanyolu Cadessistreet in the old town of Istanbul, towards…
The dervishes, mystics dancers
While I recognize that the first time I heard of them was in Istanbul, the fact…
Cappadocia, discover the "land of beautiful horses"
So the Persians baptized long before Alexander the Great conquered it in the…