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Turkish folk music is carried by a family of instruments that most visitors hear before they ever see them: the twang of the long-necked saz, the breathy flute of the kaval, the sharp beat of the darbuka.

Ebru, the Turkish art of marbling, looks like pure magic: paint that floats on water, then transfers to paper in patterns of cloud and stone.

Ebru is the Turkish art of marbling: painting on the surface of water, then transferring the image to paper.

Ottoman calligraphy is one of the great artistic achievements of the Islamic world, and one of the least understood outside it.

Calligraphy is the most Turkish of arts, yet many visitors walk past it.

Few arts say Turkey as instantly as its ceramics and tiles.

Few crafts announce Turkey more beautifully than its ceramics.

The Turkish carpet is one of the world’s great crafts, and its history is a journey from the frozen burial mounds of Siberia to the trading floors of the global market.

Turkish carpets are among the most famous crafts in the world, and behind every woven pattern lies a tradition that stretches back more than a thousand years.

Tea in Turkey is not a drink but a system: an agricultural industry on the Black Sea coast, a brewing technology built around the double teapot, a social institution in the tea garden, an economic engine in the…

No symbol of daily Turkey is more universal than the tulip-shaped glass of tea. It arrives on your table within moments of sitting down anywhere, from a mountain village to a corporate office.

Turkish comedy is a thousand-year tradition hiding inside a modern entertainment industry.