12 Cool Places to Study in Galata Neighborhood
Galata is a beautiful neighborhood in the apex of Beyoğlu district. It used to be a sanctuary for Turkey’s Greek, Armenian, Italian and Jewish...
Istanblues Be Gone! A Rainy Day Guide
Unpredictable Spring showers can put a real dampener (pun intended) on one's social calendar. But even if you have exhausted the city’s museums and...
Yabangee Recommends: Ciğerci Hulusi
“Where do I take my Turkish friend who just moved back from abroad out for dinner?”
For anyone who loves Turkish food, the approach that...
Watch Out: The Cross in the Golden Horn
Minarets and mosque domes, side by side with skyscrapers, dominate today's Istanbul skyline. Roaming the streets of Fatih district, one quickly forgets that for many centuries...
Art Appreciation on the Istanbul Metro
Death is lurking, and able to strike trepidation into the hearts of the most sanguine of us wherever and however we live. Istanbul is...
Istanbul Street Names: The Stories They Tell
Having only laid claim to most of their monikers since the declaration of the Republic, Istanbul’s street names often go unnoticed (highly due to...
Travelling to Turkey with Pets 101
Moving is a big deal. The whole process of packing your items and shifting from one place to another is tiring and time-consuming. Relocating...
Colors of Turkey: Kırmızı
As a color, red is associated with a wealth of feelings - both positive and negative - from love, passion, courage, and determination to...
Discussing the Dönme with Artist and Researcher C.M. Kösemen (Part 1)
It is well known that the Ottoman Empire was a place of incredible cosmopolitanism. What is often overlooked is the existence of “syncretic” peoples,...
10 Reasons Why Living in the Deep West Isn’t So Bad
Why make such a list? Because after each two hour journey home from Taksim in the early hours of the morning, I have to...
Survival Taxi Turkish
Many foreigners realize that Turkey is not the best place when it comes to communicating with locals. A lot of people here speak limited English,...
An Ode to Yabangee
Well this isn’t technically an ode seeing as poetry intimidates me. What it is though, is a giant shout-out to all you Yabangee-ers out...
Maintain Your Sanity Living in Istanbul: Ten Tips
Living in Istanbul is not for the faint of heart. We face a pretty hefty amount of stress on a daily basis – the hours...
Introducing: English Legal Support in Turkey via Yabangee
An unfortunate reality of simply being a foreigner living abroad is that certain aspects of one's life are inherently more complicated. From getting one's...
Turkish 101: Four More Turkish Idioms You Need to Know
Turkish idioms are easy to learn and fun to use in daily conversation to impress locals. If you loved our first part of the...
İş Sanat Launches 20th Season
İş Sanat has launched its 20th season, with the Borusan Philharmonic, under the baton of Thomas Rösner and featuring the young virtuoso Demirhan Gokbudak,...
The Creme de la Kaymak of Eccentric and Interesting Expat Istanbulites
Someone recently described Istanbul to me as a city where you can "have the best day of your life, followed by the worst day”,...
Miniatürk – Educational and Fun!
Miniatürk, situated on the North-Eastern shore of the Golden Horn, in a nutshell, is a display of the main monuments of Istanbul and Turkey...
Technomads: A 13,000 KM Pedagogical Road Trip to Mongolia
After a few years in Istanbul and a very yabancı life, it is time for us to go on a big adventure in 2020!...
Speech Bubbles School of Performing Arts: The Creative Hub for Children...
We all know that Istanbul has a plethora of activities for foreigners. Whether it's concerts, stand-up shows, spoken word events, or even trivia nights!...
Learning Turkish: 10 Idioms That Are Sure to Impress
After several years of learning Turkish, I can still find myself stumped in the midst of fast-paced conversations. This confusion occurs especially when an idiom...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Turkish Fortune-Telling Culture
After observing several overturned coffee cups with increasing curiosity during my first few months here, it became apparent that one does not simply sip...
More Çays, More Guys (2): Exploring Online Dating & Winter Drinks...
Right before Valentine’s Day, I published a piece here on Yabangee about my online-dating and winter-drinks-sampling adventures across Istanbul. (Un)surprisingly, I received a lot...
Living Abroad Blues: Coping with Loneliness
When I first moved to Istanbul in 2016, I too experienced loneliness. After all, I was a foreigner in a new country, who did...