Ancient Bektashi joke - An imam was preaching about the evils of alcohol and asked "If you put a pail of water and a pail of rakı in front of a donkey, which one will he drink from?" A Bektashi in the congregation immediately answered. "The water!" 
"Indeed," said the imam, "and why is that?" "Because he's an ass."

SAYOKAN (- Way of the Warrior)

 "... Why do you allow Armenian children to be called by Moslem names? It looks like turning the Armenians into Moslems, and history some day will revenge it on the coming generation of Turks." -Halide Edip


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Hüzün is the prevailing mood that binds the people of Istanbul, melancholia as a spiritual state, a glue, for people of Istanbul now living in the seat of a ruined crossroads, struggling to be modern, yet to still retain the dignity of their past. 

IN Memoriam

Mother of all bombs" in the words of the Turkish commentator ...

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DIGITÛRK IS HüZüN : Bedroom Composer, Orientalist, Jannisary Beatslapper

Underground electronic music with undertones of ottoman glory, loungy dissident house clubs and Eurasian romance. ..


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