Category Archives: Visits from the Karagöz puppets

Başınız sağolsun: A Turkish idiom in honor of the Soma disaster’s anniversary

Posted on May 13, 2015 by lizcameron

Last year was witness to the worst mining disaster in Turkish history…as we drove through the town of Soma last June, the memorial to the miners stood tall. Black banners and flags flew off of a number of the terraces … Continue reading →

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Twitter banned briefly, again: Her kuşun eti yenmez

Posted on April 8, 2015 by lizcameron

Turks are truly mad for Twitter. According to the New Yorker’s review of data from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, “fourteen per cent of Turkey’s eighty million people use Twitter—a relatively high figure for a country where only forty-five per cent of … Continue reading →

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Bread, salt and love: Happy Valentine’s Day from the Karagöz puppets (and Nazim Hikmet)

Posted on February 14, 2015 by lizcameron

Happy Valentine’s Day to all – the Karagöz puppets’ gift to you today is the sharing of a Nazim Hikmet poem which likens love to dipping bread into salt…relayed here in English and then in Turkish… I love you like … Continue reading →

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