It is well-known that the Turks brought coffee to Europe, first to Austria when their army surrounded Vienna in 1683. Actually, the Ottoman Turks got coffee from Yemen by the late 15th century in the period of Suleiman the Magnificent and opened the first coffeehouses in Istanbul.

The people of the eastern Black Sea region in Turkey are called Laz. They speak a dialect of Turkish called “Lazca”. Laz people have often been the targets or mockery for the Turkish people. They are actually known to be clever, but sometimes they make major mistakes which become the subject of many jokes.

There is no doubt that use of pirated DVDs should not be supported. However, illegal copies are still easy to find in many countries and they are attractive due to their cheap prices although their audio-visual quality is quite low. For people living on a small budget, it is not easy to resist the view [...]

In Turkey, English is regarded as vital in education and career, so it is no wonder that most people are interested in learning it. People start learning English at primary school and go on at high school and at the university. However, in most educational institutions, language teaching methods are still not interactive enough and [...]

Turkish is an agglutinating language in which words are mostly formed by joining morphemes together. Each of the morphemes has one meaning or function and is added to a noun or verb to denote case, number, gender, person, tense, etc. It is possible to produce hundreds of different forms for a given root word. There [...]