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You are in Turkey for a Mission and...

  For Pic You are working in an embassy or elsewhere and you have come to Turkey by necessity. This is likely your compulsory duty - naturally - not in a small town in Turkey... I am writing this article about compulsory stays in the centers of big cities. But if you say, "I came to a small town. How is it here?" If anyone says so, I will prepare an article for them. Now let's come to the situation in big cities... Again, 'naturally', I am preparing this article by thinking of Istanbul and Ankara, maybe also Adana... I don't know exactly what you'll do when you're on mandatory duty, but if it's your first time in such a situation, you're probably making the standard tourist mistakes. Well; going to popular places, thinking that you are eating Turkish food from tourist menus in restaurants arranged for tourists, etc.  Especially if you are in a big city, the soul of the city is always in the back streets. And do you know; this is not as bad as i...

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Now I want to do something different. Until now, I was always writing in Turkish. But as far as I can understand, what I'm doing doesn't attract the attention of people who read Turkish. And I'm like, 'Why am I limited to a few million people?' I thought. So, are there any English readers who will understand the cultural references that I writing? I wouldn't know until I tried. Although I am not sure how many of those cultural references will be used but still, isn't it important to try? For this reason, if there are things that you don't understand in what I write, is there always a problem? In this way, I also understand that my page was not opened by accident and that there is someone interested. There will be articles about everything. Of course, I will write in the Turkish part from time to time; I can even make additions from the articles I wrote there by cheating a little. So in short, the block has no specific concept. There is what you are looki...