Spring is in the air and with that begins a season of Turkish weddings you are invited to where you have no idea who the bride and groom are, but you are related to them and its rude if you don’t turn...
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Growing up a Turk in another country you quickly get used to everything that comes with it – good and bad. Having hundreds of cousins, being told you have put on weight from your grandparents, neve...
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Something that has always baffled me as a Turkish person is how long it takes to say goodbye to someone at the front door when they are leaving. You have the moment when someone decides to leave an...
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Following on from the success of Daşak Ali Dayi here's a Turkish tradition I can't get my head around. When us Turkish people go on holiday (if you call going back to the motherland a holiday) you'
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This was a phrase that I learnt from a very young age, not that my family were happy. However there is something great about saying "Daşak Ali Dayi" that cannot be explained. I have tried for years...
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yeayyy haaaaa, Thursday throwback this week comes from 90s sensation Grup Vitamin with their track Turkish Cowboy. I can remember paying to have someone on Girne high street make me a mixtape in th...
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Millions of Turks around the world look to their Kahve cups a source of seeing what the future holds. After years of extensive research (mainly growing up around Turkish women drinking Kahve), I have...
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In case you wasn't aware, here's some advice about me......
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Check out this advert that was shown in Turkey. It's a bit like what happens when you take your non turkish friends to a Turkish Nightclub. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82bR1...
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