David's Been Here is in Istanbul, Turkey ... popular and interesting parts of the Turkish Culture, the amazing Whirling Dervishes. A Sufi practice, this spinning action is used as a physical ...

The nazar boncugu, or evil eye bead, is a pervasive symbol throughout Turkey, believed to ward off malicious glances that ...

East meets West in this Turkish extravaganza which reveals the Byzantine and Ottoman past of Istanbul, the fairy-tale landscapes of Cappadocia and some of the world’s most revered ancient cities. Get ...

Kay Ebel, Assistant Professor of Geography at Ohio Wesleyan University and currently a fellow of the American Research Institute in Turkey ... of the whirling dervishes of Istanbul before a ...

“I watched the dervishes carefully while they were whirling and I said 'I want to learn it',” Levy, a Israeli singer, songwriter and a performer of Sephardic origin with family roots in ...

Stylish Istanbul holds one of the world’s ... The best time to see Turkey’s whirling dervishes The best time to see Turkey’s whirling dervishes ...

Somalia and Turkey share a long history that goes ... who attended a ceremony in Mogadishu in which Turkish whirling dervishes performed live dances at the Halane compound that houses the UN ...