Turkish Odyssey

By: Martin Gani

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Turkish Odyssey narrates a cultural journey through Turkey. The author travelled to all of this fascinating country’s main tourist sites giving a ‘like being there’ account of what visitors experience and enjoy there. We get detailed information, entertaining anecdotes as well as feel the atmosphere at prime tourist destinations like Istanbul’s exotic bazaars, prim and ordered Ankara (the capital), Cappadocia’s otherworldly landscapes, the holy city of Konya and world famous archaeological sites such as Ephesus, Aphrodisias and Troy. Fluent in Turkish, the author was able to get insightful information from local people, and do research on Turkish culture from primary sources. We read chapters dedicated to Turkish language and how it evolved to contain so many French root words, the carpet-making tradition, the most popular novelists, an interview with Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, the thriving film industry, which Turkish films are enjoying box office success, and the Turkish soap opera phenomenon spreading across the Middle-East and Eastern Europe. What about kebap, raki, hookah, Turkish delight and belly dancing? Yes, they too are dealt with.