This week is Kurban Bayram or Eid al-Adha, the second religious holiday after Ramadan. It is a festival of sacrifice, and charity. Animals, usually sheep and cows, are sacrificed to represent Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son. After the sacrifice…
Category: Fall
It is fall in Ankara. The days are warm, the nights are cool. The weather is lovely. The leaves are starting to change-sort of. I think it is because it is not quite cold enough that the leaves are changing…
Fall is creeping in. I can feel it in the crisp nights and the sunny days. At one point in my life I thought Fall would no longer feel like the start of the year. I thought as I finished…