
Baksı, a Museum That Brings Migration Back to the Village
Some museums stand in the middle of a town, others on a hill overlooking a valley. Baksı Museum belongs to the second kind.
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Some museums stand in the middle of a town, others on a hill overlooking a valley. Baksı Museum belongs to the second kind.

You can come to Bayburt following a story. The fortress rising above the town is both a real defensive structure and a place named in the tales of Dede Korkut, one of the shared literary treasures of the Turkic world.

The logic of a fortress in the Çoruh valley To understand a fortress in Artvin, you first have to look at the slope rather than the map.

Much is written about Mardin cuisine, but here we take a different route. We look only at products whose names appear in an official register, that is, registered products.

Anyone who walks through Mardin for the first time notices the shape of the houses first and their colors second. The walls rise from a single material that ranges from honey to yellow and, in places, to pink.

Anyone leaving the Yeşilırmak bank in Amasya and driving towards Tokat sees a long line carved into the rock beside the highway. Locals call it the Ferhat Water Canal and begin it with a love story.

Ask anyone what Amasya looks like and you will hear about the houses on the Yeşilırmak, and quite possibly about an apple.

The old mansions of Kütahya are one of the easiest ways to read a city's civil architecture at street scale.

In Kütahya, tilemaking is not only a heritage kept behind museum glass.

In Yeşilova, about 64 kilometres west of the centre of Burdur, lies a lake with a white shore.

In Burdur, the names of two foods are protected by an official record. One is made with meat, the other with walnuts; one is savoury, the other sweet.

The houses of a city let anyone walking its streets read its daily life. In Bartın, that reading is done with a vocabulary of its own.

Seen from the riverbank, it is easy to understand why Bartın is so closely tied to boats.

The rug of a region Among the handicrafts of Aksaray, the weaving most often mentioned is the Taşpınar rug.

The story of the road Aksaray sits on a plain in the interior of Anatolia where several routes meet, and you can read this position most clearly in its Seljuk hans.

In Van, breakfast is more than a meal. This table, known by the city's name, is famous throughout Türkiye and has now taken its place in official records as well.

In Van, a cat is called a pişik. The word comes from the local dialect, but when the subject is the Van cat it describes more than an animal: it names a living symbol through which the city introduces itself.

Most people who find Şırnak on a map know it for its mountains, its deep valleys and the Cizre plain on the banks of the Tigris. This landscape also has a second map, one drawn at the table and on the loom.

The Sinop table looks in two directions. On one side is the sea, with its large bonito, bonito and anchovy.

When you turn off the Sinop road towards Ayancık and drop down to Akliman, the forest opens at one point and a narrow, winding arm of the sea appears below.

The Bolkar Mountains, which close off Niğde's southern horizon, rise like a seemingly impassable wall between the steppe of Central Anatolia and the Mediterranean coast.

North of Niğde, the heights that lie between the Melendiz Plain and the fairy chimney valleys of Cappadocia look at first like nothing more than bare hills.

A few kilometres east of the town of Kaman, right beside the village of Çağırkan, a rounded hill rises out of the steppe.

Anyone arriving in Batman usually knows the city by a single word, yet behind that word lies a story of less than a hundred years.