Favorite Things Turkey

• Galata Bridge
• Street food - simit, corn (boiled, grilled, or popped), pickles, mussels. The mussels.
  
• The Ottomans (Ottomen?)
• Seeing the Hagia Sophia only to decide I need to go back
• Sitting in between Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque during prayer call
• Çay
• A country of dichotomies: modern & rugged, Islamic & secular, beautiful & dirty, pristine waters & overdeveloped tourist towns, Europe & Asia
• Meat.
  
• Turkish socialization: backgammon, meyhane culture on the Nevizade, tea
• The views
• A sense of adventure while never feeling too far away
• Baklava, lokum, helva
• Leb-i Derya at the Richmond
• You can find everything fairly cheap, but pay a little more and you get a lot more
• Turkish breakfast
• Swimming in the Mediterranean
• Having delicious plums grown by my bus-friend's mother in Fethiye
• Tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber
• Yogurt, Ayran, cheese
• Fun letters like ç and ü