Dilmen Hotel Bursa
1 Murat Cd 20, (formerly Dilmen Hotel) Bursa, Bursa, 16070, Turkey
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Turkish adventures continued
... for dinner, where we were the only non-Turkish people in the whole place, and had quite a feast. I gamely eschewed my vegetarianism for the evening, an eager student of Umut's enthusiastic gustatory instruction. I know most of what I ate and feel just fine this morning, which is indeed very good since we are boarding a bus for a 6 hour ride to Ephesus this afternoon. We had at one point thought about renting a car, but I'm glad we ditched that plan ...
Blood in their eyes
... his own fear about the situation. He's a police officer, and military and police groups are often favored targets by the terrorist factions within the country. For those unaware of these problems, here's a brief summary.
Turkey has had an issue with the ethnic Kurdish population that lives within its borders, and beyond. Though most Kurds are peace loving, and wonderful people, they have been misrepresented by a problematic faction of their population, ...
And from hijabs to burqas
... every other right that men had, discrimination against women became illegal and they no longer had to wear the veil. He also dropped the lunar calendar and adopted the Gregorian calendar like most of the rest of the world; in the same vein, the Arab alphabet was dropped and the Latin one adopted. By 1934, he made it obligatory for all Turks to have a surname.
I’m sure he’s done some bad things too (the Armenian question comes to mind) ...
As It Should Be
... br>
What am I doing here. Staring out my classroom window at a newly-green mountain flourishing in spring on a clear spring day. Or better yet, the window into my students' minds and lives, knowing full well that they are gazing right back through mine; knowing, and happily so.
Things are as they should be.
As public a sphere that this bizarre bit of internet space is, in the end, it's still a forum ...
Bursa's 15th century Green Mosque & Green Tomb
... to its tiles inside the building being……that’s it again….being green in color! Voila!
As we left the premises, from the top of the hill, the entire city could be seen....everything looked so peaceful and quiet while in the horizon, the light fog slowly lifted giving it a mystical appearance in the process!
Monique :-)
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