ISTANBUL – One of the many gifts the Roman and the Byzantine Empires left us were hammams. The...
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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...
Visiting religious sites as a non-believer
ISTANBUL – I grew up in a non-religious family and consider myself a non-believer, yet visiting...