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The Musician Ahmet Kaya

4 August, 2009 (10:00) | Characters, Language, Music, The Search, human rights, istanbul | No comments

Once upon a time in Istanbul… There once was a musician in Turkey named Ahmet Kaya and his music was loved by everyone in the country. Now what I mean by everyone, was everyone. Be they left or right, conservative or modern, young and old, Turkish or Kurdish, he was loved by all. He sold [...]

The New Mosque Istanbul

6 July, 2008 (07:03) | Language, Photographs, istanbul | No comments

Near the edge of the water where the Golden Horn meets the Bosphorus, in Eminönü, Istanbul stands the New Mosque or the Yeni Camii. If you stand on the Galata Bridge, you can see this lovely mosque – it is not the big one to the right of the skyline behind which the sun sets [...]

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