Teaching English in Turkey – Learning Curve Part I

Teaching English in Turkey – Learning Curve Part I

Teaching English in Turkey seemed like a good idea before we arrived in the country. Once there, dealing with the students was the least of our worries. We’d already been at the government university in Kayseri for a week, and despite numerous meetings with our director were still no further along in discussions about what…

Voting in Turkey – The Nuts and Bolts of Elections*

Voting in Turkey – The Nuts and Bolts of Elections*

After Republic day in 2002, the main topic of conversation among my students was voting in Turkey due to the the upcoming Turkish elections. It was impossible to ignore them because every other day some party leader came to Kayseri to mount the hustings and win votes. Posters appeared everywhere advertising rallies in Cumhuriyet Meydan,…

Touring Eastern Turkey – All Singing, All Dancing
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Touring Eastern Turkey – All Singing, All Dancing

Back in 2004 I worked at Erciyes University in central Turkey. When some of the final year students approached me to be a chaperone on a four day three night trip touring Eastern Turkey I jumped at the chance. This is an excerpt from a longer complete story. “As instructed, we arrived at the faculty…