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May | 2008 | Teaching Turkey
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Archive for May, 2008. Trains, Ottomans and Modernizers. It has been Ottoman week. Tuesday afternoon Murat Özyüksel (who writes on the Hijaz Railway. Climbed the 90 stairs to the students’ flat they have a DVD player. The first installment of his TRT series on trains is essentially a visual essay on the transformative effect of railroads on world economies and cultures during the 19th century. Yekta did simultaneous translation from Turkish (thanks, Yekta! We got to hear more of their stories at dinner h...
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July | 2008 | Teaching Turkey
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Archive for July, 2008. The students left ten days ago. Out the window of the dining car on the Iç Anadolu Mavi Tren, I can see the same Taurus mountains in which we spent time together. I’m returning to Istanbul from Syria. Since the students left, I’ve been thinking again and again about the summer course, about the students, about the whole project of active learning. I was often confused during the seven week seminar. What is active teaching? Isn’t all teaching active? Sometimes I thought I actually ...
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Whoops! The twain have met.: Forward into the past
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The twain have met. Ruminations on the East and the West in Istanbul. Monday, June 30, 2008. Forward into the past. We went to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. This afternoon. Our guide, a history professor from the local Bilkent University, prefaced the tour of the museum by telling us that Turks had thought their history began with the Ottoman Empire until Ataturk revealed that Anatolian history stretched back to the beginning of history. Thank God for Ataturk. What's that carved on that dagger?
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Whoops! The twain have met.: Preliminary Cappadocia
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The twain have met. Ruminations on the East and the West in Istanbul. Wednesday, June 25, 2008. We've recently arrived in Üçhisar, a smallish town in the Cappadocia. Area Preliminary exploration of the neighborhood at dusk revealed a friendly purple-shirted Turk and a colossal climbable conical castle. Views of the smaller cones surrounding said conical castle. He assured us that he only wanted a little money. I had unsettling memories of Cairo, where this phrase really translates as "I am going to a...
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Whoops! The twain have met.: Cappadocia musings
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The twain have met. Ruminations on the East and the West in Istanbul. Friday, June 27, 2008. We've been exploring the Cappadocia area for three days now. I feel like I've got a pretty good handle on it. There are lots of carved out sandstone cones. Some of these can be climbed through. And then there are more churches than you can shake a stick at. Though while we say churches. All of the tourist destinations in the area, but I've no idea how you'd get to them if you weren't from Cappadocia.
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Yekta Goes to Turkiye: Thoughts and Feelings
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Yekta Goes to Turkiye. Monday, October 27, 2008. I've never really known what it means to lose someone. My great-grandmother died when I was 5 years old, but I can't remember anything from that time, even though I do feel sadness at not remembering her and not having seen her before her death. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My name is Yekta, and I'm currently a junior at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying international relations and political science. View my complete profile.
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Yekta Goes to Turkiye: May 2008
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Yekta Goes to Turkiye. Friday, May 23, 2008. Short Post on Sunday. There were some very impressive collages made by this person. The one I really liked had a lot of blue in it, and it had some surprising contents. Here's a photo of the whole collage itself. And here's one of the detail. Here's another interesting collage from the same exhibit. This one I think is a rather political one, but it looks very interesting and honestly cool so. Here's one that probably had freedom and peace as its main theme.
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Why Turkey: last night
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Sunday, August 23, 2009. Here's the cookout with just our family (that's my host mom Fatma on the right). This is my host-dad Kadir ingeniously lighting his cigarette with a coal from the grill. This is Maggie (the girl in the program who was also in my house) and I with Seda, a really nice Turkish girl who lived just a few houses down. Me with two of my amcas ('amca' means uncle in Turkish and is what I called most of the male neighbors), Ali Amca on the left (with raki! And Kazim Amca on the right.
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Why Turkey: Hittites and the Mediterranean: 2 Weeks Left!
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Monday, August 3, 2009. Hittites and the Mediterranean: 2 Weeks Left! And sorry it's been so long since my last post. In that time we've had two trips, so that's what the pictures I'm posting are from. Again though, not that interesting. It was a good day, but a day (including the four hour trip from Ankara) is definitely enough to see Hatusa. Our next trip, however, was one of our most highly anticipated ones: to Alanya, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Get ready for a dramatic change of scenery:. The n...
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Adventures in Turkey
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Monday, July 7, 2008. Today was Nature Day. We went up from Egirdir to a national park where you can apparently see various woodland creatures and also leopards. We didn’t see much of either here, but did get some nice views of another lake. After that, we headed up the mountain further to walk the King’s Highway. This road was an important trade route and way to transport soldiers during Roman times. A much easier walk thanks to several millennia of use, I didn’t trip at all. And the water was the most ...
