Turks Walking #2
Turkler geliyor ve Turkler gidiyor… Benim Türkler Yürüyor dizinin ilki! Episode #2 of my latest artwork, a video project called TURKS WALKING, is up!… Read More »Turks Walking #2
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Turks Walking #1
Turkler geliyor ve Turkler gidiyor… Benim Türkler Yürüyor dizinin ilki! Today I’m delighted to announce the release of the first installment of my latest… Read More »Turks Walking #1
Erdogan
9/20/2002 The elections are coming in two months. The leftists include two Jews whose-families converted to Islam in the 1920’s, Al Gore types, western-oriented and… Read More »Erdogan
Yom Kippur in Istanbul
Last night, we went to temple Neve Shalom on the European side of Istanbul so our Israeli friends could check out the Yom Kippur evening… Read More »Yom Kippur in Istanbul
Fighting at the Sultan’s grave
Elif met me one day near Mesut’s bread factory in Fatih, and we went to the Sultan’s grave at the Suleymanie Mosquegot, where we got… Read More »Fighting at the Sultan’s grave
Six months with the Istanbul Opera
2/17/2002 The Turkish Opera had its auditions on the 11th for new people to become a sozmesleli, or independent contractor. You toil away for the… Read More »Six months with the Istanbul Opera
Puking in Diyarbakir and Nemrut Dag
Now it was time to head north to Diyarbakir. I was pissed at Isik for having sung Mardin folksongs the whole time we were around… Read More »Puking in Diyarbakir and Nemrut Dag
Threatened Hasankeyf
All these stories and Kadri suddenly opened up in the car about his family history: Armenian; his grandfather died at 42, Musur, went from Caucus… Read More »Threatened Hasankeyf
Syrian monks at the Saffron monastery
I was getting to see all the places I wanted and they pretty much let me decide, and I kept saying, east. We drove to… Read More »Syrian monks at the Saffron monastery
The Kurdish lord of Viransehir
I had big plans for the next day, we’d see monasteries and border towns and Hasankeyf and it would all be just so, but Turkey… Read More »The Kurdish lord of Viransehir