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Escaping the death star by dolmuş: Bodrum bound, Islam not found
After all of the obesity battles, I throw in the towel, so to speak, and we decide to spend the next two days exploring Bodrum town and environs. When M. and I decide this in the quiet of our room …...
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Tiryaki’s turn: Sen benim sarhoşluğumsun…
Lately, the puppets have been reading poetry again. Maybe it is the autumnal weather and maudlin sunshine moments on the stone steps of the back porch that eggs them on so to find love poems that are...
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To eleven years together: “Love is grabbing hold to the great Lion’s mane”
“Love is grabbing hold to the great Lion’s mane” or so go the words from the poet Hafiz. I’ve been clinging to that mane – whipping in the wind it often seems – for eleven years now. Actually, it has...
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The puppets celebrate a wedding on the Georgian border
The Karagöz puppets are all a-twitter about the upcoming Valentine’s day celebration. Between valentine-making parties and the preparation of sweets, you can imagine that they haven’t been thinking...
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Bread, salt and love: Happy Valentine’s Day from the Karagöz puppets (and...
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...
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