Steppin’ into the Turkish Blogosphere · Global Voices
Deborah Ann Dilley

After a 15 day hiatus, the Turkish blog review is back.
I found some information on Turkish Podcasting!  The website Kevin and Fatma take on the World! are in the planning stages of weekly podcasts.  At the moment they only have a few test podcast shows, but it is a worthwhile project to continue to check the status of.  Alacakaranlik Istanbul is another site that is also trying to begin the Turkish podcast venture.  They currently only have a few test shows.  But by far the coolest podcast discovery of the week for me is from the site  Devletsah.com which has an entire archive of podcasts giving recipe instructions (in Turkish).  And our list today would not be complete without Undomondo a wonderful Mp3 blog, that focuses on new and upcoming Indie music in Turkey and throughout the rest of the world.
Mert Ulas has been dabbling with videoblogging.  Mert gives us a tutorial on videoblogging and the oppurtunity to listen and watch part of a lovely little diddy called  “thinking about my doorbell”.
Moving on to our normal fare…. Turkey has been graced with two holidays the past two weeks: Turkish Republic Day and the end of Ramadan  Eid al-Fitr, which the Turks call Seker Bayrami or Sugar Festival. Here are some Turkish Republic Day greetings from Metroblogging Istanbul, and Happy Bayram wishes from American Turk.  Phanja from The Need to Know describes the similarities between Seker Bayrami and the Halloween.I am happy to report that Turkish Torque is posting again.  They have an interesting post on an upcoming  Janissary scuplture exhibit in Paris.  Ever posting on the history of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, Mavi Boncuk has a profile of architect Alexandre Vallaury and biography of Claude Alexandre Comte de Bonneval who converted to Islam in the 17th Century and became a Humbaraci.   Metroblogging Istanbul has a post about a  turkish soldier caught in terrorist violence in Eastern Turkey who calls home shortly before he died from enemy fire and a post about the  arrest of Human Rights activist Eren Keskin.  A newly found blog entitled Erkan's Field Diary details various aspects of the Turkey/European Union situation, the website is a format for Erkan to post things that pertain to his thesis.  His latest post is about European Stability Initiative.  Murat from American Turk has a frightening post about Sleep paralysis.
For the interesting finds section for this week:
1. Farketing a design weblog.
2. Topkapi Palace which deals with issues of Orientalism.
3. Aegean Disclosure which describes itself as ” a turkish blog which would prefer to write about film, but other things endlessly get in the way, so one is simply content to keep the ocean floor visible.”