Showing posts with label Istanbul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Istanbul. Show all posts

And... There is Life on the Street!

June 01, 2020
I am not going to make this long. There is a lot to write, to think about and to self-examine. Especially self-examine. Back when I wrote this 2 months ago I was wrong in something quite fundamental, and that was my underestimati…
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Best Friend Forever

April 30, 2020
Kemal. He is a wily old geezer. A Kurd from AÄŸrı who has been around the block a few times. He owns a tiny tea counter in the marketplace. And he is a very special friend. When the marketplace closed down I heard that he had gon…
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Üsküdar

August 16, 2019
I have been working on the Istanbul Facebook page quite diligently. However, so far I have not really ventured much outside of my own hood, BeÅŸiktaÅŸ, where God knows there is enough material to fill not only one but many Faceboo…
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BeÅŸiktaÅŸ

July 23, 2019
I am not terribly patriotic when I think about Turkey as a whole. Sure I want the country to be OK. Sure, I want it to get out from under this yoke of oppression and tyranny - which I am fairly confident that it will, sooner or …
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My city is Istanbul

July 19, 2019
I may have found a way to put my street photos to some use. Not in terms of creativity, or design. I still have no ambitions or confidence in that regard. But there is something else that has been bugging me for ages, and there …
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Going out on the streets

July 10, 2019
After exhausting home and cat photo topics I have ventured outdoors with the phone and have started taking street photos. I still get nervous when I point the thing at people but I am also realizing that, unlike a real camera, t…
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So, we won the election

June 24, 2019
By a landslide, no less. HRH has been defeated, and defeated very badly indeed. At least here in Istanbul, at least for now. Last night the city turned into one big party, and my 'hood was once again one of the center stages…
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My Beautiful RL

November 24, 2008
I am really more of a much-rather-stay-at-home kind of a person. I will happily spend all of my days right here, at home - as long as I have a good computer, a decent ADSL line and the roomies of course... And yet at the same ti…
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Comparing Toe Sizes

August 16, 2008
This is Sıtkı. I have 11 of them, cats that is, but he is the favorite. I get heavy hearted before I go on trips because I will be leaving him behind and sit on the edge of my seat on the ride back from the airport in anticipati…
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