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I’m afraid this is nothing but an exhausted post again– I taught for eight hours today instead of my usual Wednesday four, as one of my partner-teachers was ill and needed a substitute. On the plus side, all of the classes went well, even the Emergency Substitution ones; on the minus side, that is eight hours in the classroom, standing for the entire time.

Meant to write earlier tonight, and take care of incredibly piled-up and overdue paperwork, and finish up the last tallying of attendance and exams– and all I managed was eating a bowl of pasta and reading, and now it’s 1:30 am (how does that happen?). Alas.

(I think I get a pass on the day.)

In lieu of content, have links to a few of the Turkey-related blogs I read regularly:
• Istanbul Calling by Yigal Schleifer– a good source for political news, and especially so for links to serious background and discussion of Turkish issues.
• Kamil Pasha by Jenny White– regular updates on Turkish news and culture (with a nice occasional focus on women’s issues).
• Istanbul Eats– pure gluttonous reading pleasure.
• The Turkish Life by Jen Hattam– updated somewhat irregularly; an interesting expat’s perspective.

And for news, the NYTimes is often useful (more so lately than usual, I suspect, since Turkey’s been in the US news heavily over the last few months), but Hurriyet is a major Turkish newspaper with a daily English-language edition, and if you’re desperate there’s always the journalistic oddity that is Today’s Zaman.

Bitter Lemons International has Turkey-related content sometimes (though I don’t check there regularly) and is an excellent source for Middle Eastern issues, and SETimes has been useful for me for following Turkey’s various European issues (especially the ongoing EU snafu).

There are plenty of other sources I head to, but these are the ones I find myself visiting most often. If you follow Turkish news or blogs, please throw suggestions at me– I’m sure buried in reading material, but that doesn’t mean I’ll avoid adding more to the stack.