Merhaba (hello) from Turkey

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Hi folks,


Arrived in Istanbul two days ago for an 8 day holiday in the city where I used to live, want to live again and fell in love with at first sight. It feels so good to be back and I really hope that someday I can live here again. First time since arrival that I made it to a PC with internet connection.


Met a really nice American girl, and she did not know the city at all while I do know most good areas. I offered to show her around. We met through a common friend here in Turkey. We spent two days together and I showed her all nice places. We went sailing on Bosphorus, visited the Taksim nightlife area, the oriental shopping mall with Middle Eastern products only, and the huge Blue Mosque + surrounding mosques. Hopefully a frienship that was formed to last, although her living in Arizona will make it a long distance thing (and yes, it is friendship only, I already had my eye on another girl and she has a boyfriend herself)

My last meals were both at the Bosphorus promenade with sight on sea and a skyline of mosques. The temperature is close to 40Celsius at day and 25Celsius at night. Hot hot hot... A bit too hot especially during daytime, the evenings are a lot nicer. Guess it is a welcome change though after a week full of rain in Berlin.

Will be absent from WP for a week probably unless my hotel I am checking in tomorrow is having an internet terminal. On the menu the coming days: visiting an employment agency, visiting the Princes Islands, hopefully meeting some special girl I know here (but she has to say YES first) and some relaxing. If I find an internet terminal I will post now and then, if not then see you all in a week.

Iak samlar (good night) from Turkey and may god protect you (Allah Korusun!)

I thought:

iyi geceler = good night ... never heard of "Iak samlar" unless it is the poorer part of Turkey?

Selam, nasılsınız?

Anyway - nice to meet you on here

Took my car in for repairs, and the shop owner (who's Armenian) was speaking Turkish with a customer. I was surprised (!) He nonchalantly said "oh yes, I speak Armenian, Turkish, and Arabic."

What a country ! ! I take my German car to a shop that's owned by an Armenian, who has a Spaniard for a mechanic ! !

Y'know, I did a project on the country Turkey back in 7th grade. Very interesting place.

Hmm, odd, both the Turks in Berlin (and that is a lot of them) and the Turks I met here already all used Iak Samlar.

Anyway, good night to you too. I am off to sleep now, even though it still feels so warm I feel like a walk by the Bogaz...

Lived there already in the past. Hope to move back someday. Amazing place, the amount of culture and history is beyond belief. And the Turks are amazingly friendly people, very helpful as well. En buyuk Turkiye I guess (sorry for the lack of dots on the U, this keyboard is not functioning that well)

Istanbul is by now well known territory after my first stint in Turkey, but hopefully if I have the chance to move back someday I want to see more of Eastern Turkey rather than only the big cities in the west of the country on short distance to Istanbul (which I did during my earlier stint in the country)