SEA OF MARMARA – The ferry is a common form of transportation which is used a lot in Istanbul to go...
Category - Perspective
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...
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...
Visiting religious sites as a non-believer
ISTANBUL – I grew up in a non-religious family and consider myself a non-believer, yet visiting...
YJI’s conference in Istanbul taught me to dare
ISTANBUL – When my editor at Youth Journalism International first approached me about taking part...