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                      Best Friend Forever
                      • 3 min

                      Best Friend Forever

                      Kemal. He is a wily old geezer. A Kurd from Ağrı who has been around the block a few times. He owns a tiny tea counter in the marketplace...
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                      Üsküdar
                      • 2 min

                      Üsküdar

                      I haven’t wandered inside this market area for years. Normally I have no business there, no shops to go to, no friends to visit. I made t...
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                      Bıdık the Crow
                      • 2 min

                      Bıdık the Crow

                      My housemate Hafize has been taking care of a young crow for the past few weeks. And the relationship is becoming so hilarious that I wan...
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                      Beşiktaş
                      • 2 min

                      Beşiktaş

                      I am not terribly patriotic when I think about Turkey as a whole. Sure I want the country to be OK. Sure, I want it to get out from under...
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                      My city is Istanbul
                      • 2 min

                      My city is Istanbul

                      I may have found a way to put my street photos to some use. Not in terms of creativity, or design. I still have no ambitions or confidenc...
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                      Going out on the streets
                      • 1 min

                      Going out on the streets

                      After exhausting home and cat photo topics I have ventured outdoors with the phone and have started taking street photos. I still get ner...
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                      Starting to take photos
                      • 1 min

                      Starting to take photos

                      Never done it before. Never had the slightest interest, in fact. But now that I have the phone camera I have started to explore, starting...
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                      Finally – a smart phone
                      • 2 min

                      Finally – a smart phone

                      For years I had a Blackberry. Something like 15 years. And then in the end the battery gave out and because it is such an old model it co...
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                      So, we won the election
                      • 1 min

                      So, we won the election

                      By a landslide, no less. HRH has been defeated, and defeated very badly indeed. At least here in Istanbul, at least for now. Last night t...
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                      Bidding farewell to an old sweetheart…
                      • 5 min

                      Bidding farewell to an old sweetheart…

                      I was away for two weeks, went to San Francisco and New York. I lived in New York for seven years during the 1980s. I had initially gone...
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                      There is a definite change
                      • 2 min

                      There is a definite change

                      I am noticing it from my favorites on Flickr, which are mostly RL things. And what I put on flickr myself, for that matter. I seem to sor...
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                      No Trust
                      • 3 min

                      No Trust

                      I am sitting here and thinking: How many people do I know that I can trust? In the true sense of the word? Who, in their turn, trust me a...
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                      Celebrating "Syncretismas" in the land of the shapeshifters
                      • 4 min

                      Celebrating "Syncretismas" in the land of the shapeshifters

                      My PhD professor and mentor Roy Ascott, to whom I owe far more than just this one word is the one who coined the term “syncretismas” a few...
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                      A feeling of not belonging
                      • 2 min

                      A feeling of not belonging

                      Dedicated to the anonymous reader of this blog… … There is a woman playing the piano. You probably cannot hear the notes but you see her...
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                      My Beautiful RL
                      • 7 min

                      My Beautiful RL

                      I am really more of a much-rather-stay-at-home kind of a person. I will happily spend all of my days right here, at home – as long as I h...
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                      Comparing Toe Sizes
                      • 5 min

                      Comparing Toe Sizes

                      This is Sıtkı. I have 11 of them, cats that is, but he is the favorite. I get heavy hearted before I go on trips because I will be leavin...
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