Quick Guide 31: Credit Cards & Tipping
How to use credit cards in Turkey? Which cards are acceptable? How about tipping at restaurants...
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Quick Guide 30: Turkish Language
When they came to Anatolia from the 11th century onwards, Turks brought their language with themselves...
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Quick Guide 29: How to Make Turkish Tea
Turks introduced coffee into the western world, that’s why it is called Turkish coffee. Coffee is...
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Quick Guide 28: How to Make Turkish Coffee
It was the Turks who introduced coffee into the western world. Coffee is not grown in...
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Quick Guide 27: Turkish Coffee or Tea
It was the Turks who introduced coffee into the western world. During the siege of Vienna,...
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Quick Guide 26: Chora Church and Christ Pantocrator
The iconic image of Christ Pantocrator was one of the first images of Christ developed in...
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Quick Guide 25: Ottoman Sultans and Their Mosques
In the Ottoman Period, many Ottoman Sultans, to make their names memorable built mosques in their...
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Quick Guide 24: Oil Candles at Mosques
Before electric bulbs were introduced, oil candles were commonly used in the Ottoman times.
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Quick Guide 22: Chora Church and Theodore Metochites
Kariye Museum was originally the center of a Byzantine monastery complex. Only the church section, which...
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Quick Guide 21: Topkapi Palace, What is special about the Topkapi?
What makes Topkapi different than many other palaces? Oriental versus Western or European.
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