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Showing posts with label Topkapi Sarayi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Topkapi Sarayi. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 April 2013

Flowers and Istanbul

Istanbul is becoming a city of concrete buildings and tall buildings.
It's not the Istanbul that I moved to in 1999. Lots changed.
Topkapi Palace Garden 
 Yesterday [22 April] we spent the day in Topkapi Palace and Gulhane Park. April is known to be a month of tulips in Istanbul. Tulips have a significance for Turkey: they symbolise God. You can write the word 'lale' which means tulip and 'Allah', the word for God in Islam, using exactly the same letters. That's one of the reasons why you see lots of tulips in Turkish arts, particularly in Turkish tiling. In April, IBB [Istanbul Municipality] surrounds big parks with big beds of tulips. It's pretty to see whole bunches of tulips everywhere but I realised today that the enormous amounts of tulips actually symbolise the crowdedness of Istanbul. The tulips in those gardens [particularly Emirgan, Gulhane and Yildiz Parks] are not naturalistically designed but on the contrary designed so that they are very crowded and packed.
On the 23rd of April, Children's Day in Turkey, we spent the day in Ataturk Arbetorum which is located on the outskirts of the Sariyer district. All green and beautiful.. There were daffodils, buttercups, tulips and some purple and white flowers but all naturally spread out. It was very relaxing and inspiring to look at them. The day that Delfina and I were in Gulhane Park, it was lovely to see millions of tulips but it was nothing compared to our experience at Ataturk Arbetorum.


Young and old scientists
in Ataturk Arbetorum
I guess human nature is changing so very fast and artificially that people don't care about natural harmony anymore. That's because we stopped to look at nature. Throughout the day, what we see in Istanbul is only concrete buildings and rapidly rising skyscrapers. Maybe that's why, naturally, looking for artificial patterns becomes natural in an environment where we only look at artificial concrete buildings. 


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Saturday, 19 January 2013

Yollarda kesisen hayatlar

üç anne & üç bebek, keşif peşinde :)
 Gecen Carsamba gunu uc anne [Elçin, Aylin, Esra], uc bebek [Beril, Arın, Delfina] olarak Topkapi Sarayi'nda 2013 Turkiye Çin yili etkinlikleri bunyesinde sergilenen Çin Hazineleri Sergisini  gormeye gittik. Oldukca etkileyiciydi benim acimdan dort Çin askerini ve Çin çömleklerini gormek. Hayal gucunu iyi tetikliyor, askerlerle ilgili bilgileri okumadan once, askerlerin mesleklerini ve kararkterlerini tahmin etmeye calismak. Umarim Çin'e gidip hepsini gormek de nasip olur. Çin kanununa gore bir seferde en fazla dort asker heykeli ulke disina cikabiliyormus. Hem comlek hem cini yapan biri olarak sergi bana oldukca zevk verdi. Sergi salonunun onunde, gunesin altinda ekmek arasi SultanAhmet koftecisinin koftelerini yedikten sonra, Arkeoloji Muzesi'nin sokagindan Gulhane Parki'na indik. Park cok guzeldi, fiskiyeler de mavi mavi calisiyordu. Gunesin altinda kuslarin seslerini dinlerken bir baktim bir Moda'da dolasan ozgur papaganlar Gulhane Parki'nda takiliyorlar. O kadar guzeldi ki danslari ve sakimalari. 
Bahsi gecen papaganlar
->Rivayete gore TR'ye getirilen
bir kus kafesi
dusmus ve icindeki papaganlar
toplu halde firar etmisler,
halen birlikte takiliyorlar zaten :)
Bir sure onlari dinleyip, huzura erdikten sonra yola koyulduk, bir kafede afiyetle kozde pismis Turk kahvemizi icip, biraz yorgunlugumuzu atip, Sirkeci'den gecerekten Emionu vapur iskelesine vardik. Akbilimi basarken, guzel mi guzel bir bebis gordum, sonra Delfina'nin yanina gittim. Sonra arkamdan bir ses: Esra? :) Megersem o guzel bebisin annesi Emziren Anneler'den tanidigim, aylardir epostalastigim, ve bir turlu bulusmayi ayarlayamadigimiz Gamze'ymis :) Beni blogdaki resimlerimden tanimis :) Hayatta ne kadar dongu var, kesisen yollar var, degil mi? Daha sonra Berra ve Delfina vapurda cok guzel oynadilar. Turkiye'ye tasindigimdan beri, internet ortami sayesinde bircok guzel anneyle tanistim ve yollarimizin bir sekilde donup dolasip baglanmasi ne kadar harika :) Bugun de Berra bebegin dogum gunuymus. Iyi ki dogmus, iyi ki dogdular, biz annelerin hayatlarini guzellestirdiler. Sevgiyle ve saglikla buyusunler...
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