Whoops! The twain have met.

We met with a group of consular and political officers at the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul this afternoon. There've been comments (I won...

I went to pick up Ross (yes, readers! The one and only Ross Williford!) at the airport this afternoon and was confronted with a hilarious an...

We went to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations this afternoon. Our guide, a history professor from the local Bilkent University, prefaced...

We visited Anıtkabir this morning to pay our respects to the father of Turkey. I'd had a bit of a laugh before coming after I read that ...

Ankara's always been described to me as a European city stuck in the middle of Anatolia. I guess maybe that's true, but it really de...

We've been exploring the Cappadocia area for three days now. I feel like I've got a pretty good handle on it. There are lots of carv...

We've recently arrived in Üçhisar, a smallish town in the Cappadocia area. Preliminary exploration of the neighborhood at dusk revealed...