Pişmaniye is the Turkish equivalent of cotton candy and is made of flour and sugar. Here, a group of men demonstrate the traditional way of making pişmaniye at a market near Sirkeci train station.
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Lost in translation – Turkish greetings
Last year, I visited a dear friend, who happens to be Turkish, in Aachen, Germany. He shared what I thought was an interesting observation. The Turkish phrase Kolay gelsin!, which can be roughly translated as May it come easy! did not have a German equivalent. He’d spent hours on the Internet, looking for one; to…
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