How to enjoy tea like real tea addicts, or in other words Turks? An instruction manual for someone who just got a tea set from Turkey

Well you just got a traditional tea set (made of copper in this special case but could be porcelain or steel etc.) from Turkey and now ask yourself "How am I going to use it?" Let's see first what you should have:

Youporn out, Du-porn in! Three days through Dalmatia...

How would you think of a rich Russian businessman? Probably as shown in many Hollywood movies; riding a luxurious car, speaking English with the famous Russian accent and having a bad-tempered wife. Well that’s exactly what we have experienced in the black Mercedes at the border of Croatia.

Introducing some great poetry from Turkey part 2: Selected Poems

For further reading again go to that wonderful website, Turkish Poetry in Translation. Here follows some chosen poems from that collection with brief comments of mine...It will be followed by a further part with different poets. My love for Dağlarca is clearly felt in this first part, most poems are his but I hope you will also find them masterful as I do.