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If you spend any time in Turkey, you will notice the barbershops on nearly every street corner, their windows polished, their chairs full, and their scissors flashing.

Few institutions capture the spirit of Turkey quite like the hamam.

If you are planning a trip to Turkey, you will hear about the hamam long before you step inside one.

The religious diversity of Turkey is the product of ten thousand years of history, a palimpsest of faiths inscribed on the same land, layer upon layer.

Turkey is often described as a Muslim country, and in many ways it is, but that description hides a far richer reality.

The Mevlevi tradition is one of the most intricate and enduring expressions of Islamic spirituality, a seven-hundred-year-old path that combined rigorous inner discipline with an extraordinary flowering of…

The Mevlevi tradition, known to the world through the whirling dervishes, is one of the great spiritual currents of Islam and one of the most beautiful cultural inheritances of Turkey.

Rumi’s legacy in Turkey is one of the most remarkable survival stories in the history of religion and culture.

Rumi, the great poet and mystic of the thirteenth century, is one of the most beloved figures in Turkish culture, and his legacy is woven into the country in ways that visitors encounter almost everywhere.

Istanbul is not simply the setting of Orhan Pamuk’s work; it is the subject, the method, and the medium of his entire literary project.

Few writers are as completely identified with a city as Orhan Pamuk is with Istanbul.

Contemporary Turkish literature is a conversation between generations, languages, and worlds, and to understand it deeply you must trace its roots, its ruptures, and its boldest experiments.