Time flies down here, and I find it hard to understand that more than half of my student exchange soon got over. Although it is some time since I last been heard from me, and I live still and feel good, but it is shown be on high time that also comes life on the blog again. This item is acting in high degree of everyday life and "to feel at home" in İstanbul, while my great Easter travel around the Caucasus has acquired chikki machine its own post "Spring break 2014: Armenia, Georgia and Trabzon."
"Istanbul chikki machine is not Turkey, and Turkey is Istanbul" - is a phrase I frequently have met among both the Turkish students and subjects. In my course "Integration & Migration" We have discussed included fertility rates, and it turns out that there is enormous variation in Turkey. From just under 2 children per. woman in line with Western Europe in western Turkish cities (including Istanbul) to just barely four in the osttyrkiske provinces. Meanwhile, a omdrejninspunkt in my second profession "Current Issues in Turkish Politics" was the cultural differences between the center (the educated elite) and periphery (the traditional way of life), which continues to cause tensions in Turkish society.
In order to have resolved if there was something chikki machine to it, we were in the beginning of March a bunch of girls consisting of Melly, Alya, Ay Da, Patricia and myself, who traveled out of the blue. One can rightly chikki machine say that this was going slightly with blinders on. In our eagerness to travel as selsvstændige backpackers rather than tourists, we had forgotten to consider the ferry that would take us to our destinations chikki machine Cannakkale, often canceled due to bad weather. The result was, therefore, that we stood as five big question mark at the ferry terminal in Bostancı (outskirts of Istanbul) and attempted to find out what we should do about our transportation problem. chikki machine The solution was quickly for us in terms of our own captain, who should have been with the ferry home. In the beginning, we think both it was great that he could help us find a bus route and that his uniform was enormously exciting. The more we hung out with him, the less interesting it was, however. It dawned on us that he was only a captain-in-waiting of 16 years! In the best sense, he was inordinately possessive and provede special to impress Ay Since that speak Turkish, with various antics. Luckily, we had said thank you for the help and goodbye before we arrived at Cannakale. Here we went on a little sightseeing in the city, ate delicious food, as the Trojan horse, which had been in the Brad Pitt movie Troy - Mr. Pitt we were unfortunately not the pleasure of, and was at the bar with Turkish live band. The next day we took a minibus next to the ruins of ancient Troy - it was a very cold and windy experience, so we quickly returned to Cannakale. The city is somewhat less international chikki machine and more quiet and calm than Istanbul. However, I experienced not as dramatically more conservative, but it is of course also in Western Turkey. On the other hand, I had the feeling of having to "home" when we returned from Istanbul.
Tear gas and propaganda music Although the differences between the modern and traditional Turkey chikki machine not really expressed on the trip to Cannakale, so have tensions in the Turkish community in the high degree been evident in central Istanbul. There have been demonstrations both around Taksim chikki machine Square and Kadikoy, chikki machine where I live. However, they have not been in the same size order as Gezipark protests last summer. Our apartment is fortunately some blocks away from the demonstrations, but from the balcony, I have still been able to smell anything of all the tear gas by the police with water cannons have not been shy to use. The demonstrations have not affected my life tremendously, but just medfort some quiet evenings at home in the apartment - the boys I live with has namely been out to look at. Demonstration in Kadikoy
The reasons why the Turks demonstrate is partly a general dissatisfaction with the AKP in the more 'modern' Turks, but also specific events. Among other things, chikki machine there have been great sadness of the 15 year-old Berkin Elvans died as a result chikki machine of that he associated with Gezipark protests last summer was hit in the head by a police taaregasgranater. At the same time, politicians have passed a law that makes it easier to block Internet sites without chikki machine notice, as has happened for both Youtube and Twitter - however it is still possible to gain access to these social media if you can little IT tricks.
Additionally, it has now ended is local elections too, had the Turks on the street, not only demonstrators but also as participants in the election campaign. It has been impossible to avoid the choice of pork, though I do not have TV. Each candidate has already had the opposite valgbus, through large speakers have diligently chikki machine taken care of that at a