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! [1] are in the planning stages of weekly podcasts. At the moment they only have a few test podcast shows [2], but it is a worthwhile project to continue to check the status of. Alacakaranlik Istanbul [3] is another site that is also trying to begin the Turkish podcast venture [4]. 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 [5] which has an entire archive of podcasts giving recipe instructions (in Turkish). And our list today would not be complete without Undomondo [6] a wonderful Mp3 blog, that focuses on new and upcoming Indie music in Turkey and throughout the rest of the world.
Mert Ulas [7] has been dabbling with videoblogging [8]. Mert gives us a tutorial on videoblogging [9] and the oppurtunity to listen and watch part of a lovely little diddy called “thinking about my doorbell”. [10]
Moving on to our normal fare…. Turkey has been graced with two holidays the past two weeks: Turkish Republic Day [11] and the end of Ramadan Eid al-Fitr, which the Turks call Seker Bayrami or Sugar Festival. [12] Here are some Turkish Republic Day greetings [13] from Metroblogging Istanbul, and Happy Bayram wishes [14] from American Turk. Phanja from The Need to Know [15] describes the similarities between Seker Bayrami and the Halloween. [16]I am happy to report that Turkish Torque [17] is posting again. They have an interesting post on an upcoming Janissary scuplture exhibit in Paris. [18] Ever posting on the history of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, Mavi Boncuk has a profile of architect Alexandre Vallaury [19] and biography of Claude Alexandre Comte de Bonneval [20] who converted to Islam in the 17th Century and became a Humbaraci [21]. Metroblogging Istanbul has a post about a turkish soldier caught in terrorist violence in Eastern Turkey who calls home shortly before he died [22] from enemy fire and a post about the arrest of Human Rights activist Eren Keskin. [23] A newly found blog entitled Erkan's Field Diary [24] 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. [25] Murat from American Turk has a frightening post about Sleep paralysis. [26]
For the interesting finds section for this week:
1. Farketing [27] a design weblog.
2. Topkapi Palace [28] which deals with issues of Orientalism. [29]
3. Aegean Disclosure [30] 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.”