SEA OF MARMARA – The ferry is a common form of transportation which is used a lot in Istanbul to go...
Category - Global Conference in Istanbul, 2022
Immerse yourself in other cultures to deepen your understanding
YJI students Sreehitha Gandluri and Norah Springborn from the United States, Naz Mergen from...
Turkish rape culture is not unlike the rest of the world
ISTANBUL – It’s impossible for a foreigner to truly understand a country’s rape culture until they...
Steaming hot, harsh scrubbing and a splash of cold – our...
ISTANBUL – One of the many gifts the Roman and the Byzantine Empires left us were hammams. The...
A 500-year-old Turkish bath, or hammam, serves people the...
ISTANBUL – Passed down from one generation to the next, the tradition of Turkish baths, hammam...
The rock of Istanbul is its Archeological Museum
ISTANBUL – Blown away, I stood in awe of how the Istanbul Archeological Museum was so much more...
Making friends, gaining confidence
ISTANBUL – I‘ve always been a person who was afraid to meet people. I always thought they wouldn’t...
Finding so much in common and why I’ll never eat Iranian...
ISTANBUL – My Turkish friend İpek Eser and I were getting simit, a bread in the shape of a circle...