A basket of groceries in Istanbul is now more expensive than in the UK.
I compared two online shopping baskets - 1 from Carrefour for delivery in Istanbul; one from Sainsbury's.
The price of 19 basic items in the UK totalled £44.53.
The price of the 19 basic items in Istanbul totalled 4,425.18 TL / £71.99 at today's exchange rate.
I compared using the cheapest available options and the most similar items/quantities available.
There are a few items that really push up the cost of the grocery basket in Turkey, namely beef and instant coffee (?!). Some goods such as olive oil are roughly the same price as in the UK, while some items such as eggs, milk and onions are quite a bit cheaper in Turkey.
The gross minimum wage in Turkey is 33,030 (£537.88) a month.
The gross minimum wage in the UK is £12.71 an hour for people over 21. Assuming a 35 hour working week, this is £444.85 a week.
None of this is to say that people in the UK have it easy. I know the cost of living crisis - already years in the making and now exacerbated by the war in Iran - is hitting many people very very hard.
The point I'm rather trying to make is that inflation in Turkey is crazy, pushing living costs up to levels that far outstrip what many people earn.
Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered traces of human excrement in a 1,900-year-old glass vial, which they believe is the first chemical evidence showing that the Romans used feces medicinally
@lunallena39 Bu konuda bir başyapıt.
Bu mimari detayın Batı'nın "bireyciliği" ile Doğu'nun "varlığı otoriteye bağlı" feodal yapısı arasındaki farkın bir göstergesi olduğunu anlatıyor:
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@ayemnut Kendi, güzelce söylersek “minimal” promptunuzu GPT’ye verip Gemini için bu promptu iyileştir derseniz yapar. Sonucu beğenmeyince sonucu verip, yapa yapa bunu yaptı promptu düzelt ki iyi yapsın deyin.
Many nations take pride in their baklava tradition! In “Byzantine” cuisine there is something remarkably similar - Koptoplakous. Food is often an evolution not suddenly invented.
“This tradition is a much loved one; there is a plethora of dishes favored by Arabs, Greeks, Turks, Persians and Slavs, in particular. Such manipulation started in Ancient Greece, under the name of plakountes, which in general meant sweet pies.”
The most similar one was Koptoplakous “which was two sheets of pastry filled in between with finely chopped almonds, walnuts, sesame and honey; none less than our familiar baklava, beloved dessert of the whole eastern basin, adopted with a few improvisations.”
Today modern Baklava has many variations which are all very delicious! But it’s fairly clear that the baklava from the Ottoman era was a continuation of the evolution of Koptoplakous! Traditional foods rarely seem to have one single inventor. It’s more common people invented new variants of something, not something totally new.
Source: The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1984 & 1985 - the chapter by Rena Salman.
In America 🎈
by Sabiha Sertel (Turkish original – Baku, Azerbaijan)
by David Selim Sayers and Evrim Emir-Sayers (English translation – Paris, France)
#sabihasertel#history#journalism
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@IKEATurkiye Sevgili İkea, planlayıcınızdan odamı tasarladım, ürünleri seçtim. Bunları otomatik olarak sepete ekleyememek çok saçma. Ayrıca ürün sipariş ekranında adet seçememek de çok saçma.
The rise and fall of Epiros
In 1217 Theodore Komnenos Doukas ambushed and captured a Latin Emperor. In 1224 he liberated Thessaloniki, by 1227 he had himself crowned as Roman Emperor!
In 1230 his army was crushed by the Bulgarians, his empire shattered, and he was blinded!🧵
In this city of countless vanished lives, we come and go, casting only the briefest of shadows. The cat was never here, yet somehow, we remember it.
And saddest of all: no living hand wrote this.