>>>>>>Etli Ekmek.
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>>>>>yani "bread with meat" ?
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>>>>Yup. Lived on the stuff for a while in another life.
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>>>Sounds like you and I had similar other lives ( though in Izmir the seafood was better <s> ) How long did you live there ( sounds like central Anatolia ...? ) Turkce biliyormusun ?
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>>Near Diyarbakir and points east. Izmir was a holiday. And no ;-)
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>Wow. Diyarbakir is pretty east in it's own right. Hmmm - east of there ... Van? Looking for Noah's Ark? I only got out that way heading overland to Tabriz. In those days, non-Turkish speaking gavurs could find it pretty challenging to get around. Back then I could pass for a Turk but an Istanbulu or Izmirli - which to the locals made me as much a foreigner as if I had come from Brazil <bg>

By points east, don't limit your thinking to Turkish borders. I'm sure you're aware of the many surveillance assets we maintained in that region. 'Nuff said.

There is no way this boy could ever pass as a local, so I made no attempt to. I learned enough to eat, sleep and travel. Fortunately I never insulted anyone with my gibberish or violated any local customs. Well, never got called on it anyway.