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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

After exhausting home and cat photo topics I have ventured outdoors with the phone and have started taking street photos. I still get...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...