This ice-cream is famous!

When Ayşe had told me about the famous ice-cream of Karamanmaraş I imagined she was just being patriotic (her roots are there ) but lo and behold it was promoted everywhere along Istiklal Caddesi!

Putting It All in Context

August 22nd 2014
Way back last June I came to Turkey, indeed continental Eurasia for the very first time. I had ostensibly signed up for a month long teaching assignment in provincial north-central Anatolia. I was fortunate enough (I will qualify that in another article) to arrive early in the month, bang in the middle of the Gezi Park protests which was more insightful than dangerous. Several days later I was on ... read more

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Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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