The Poinsettia plant is known in modern Turkey as 'Ataturk Cicegi', or Ataturk's Flower (Mustapha Kemal Ataturk being the founder of the modern Turkish Republic).
Friday, October 30, 2009
Faces 59 - Celebrating the Republic.
The Poinsettia plant is known in modern Turkey as 'Ataturk Cicegi', or Ataturk's Flower (Mustapha Kemal Ataturk being the founder of the modern Turkish Republic).
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Places 34 - Mardan Palace Hotel.
I found the Mardan Palace website technically perfect in its creation, but it lacks so much of the vibrant magic of the Istanbul it tries to emulate; and this, I am sure, is what their future guests would like to see. These are a few fleeting impressions taken in one afternoon.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Notions 34 - Sight.
A poster advertising the '46 inci Altin Portakal Film Festival' (translated as the '46th Golden Orange') staged annually in Antalya.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Places (and Faces) 34 - Daphne House.
Bulent and Refiye Sagocak run this perfect place hidden in the pine forests behind Olympos, known also in Turkish as, 'Daphne Tatil Evi'.
www.daphnehouse.com - bulent@olimpos.org
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