Welcome to Skaian Gates English. We aim to remove one hurdle in the race that leads to publication. By editing the English of non-native speakers a paper will be easier to understand and more amenable to reviewers. We also translate papers from Turkish to English in any scientific field. English language rewriting services are Read More ...
For inquiries about Turkish to English translation or editing/proofreading services, please email here. If you have any questions about Çanakkale or anything to do with the Troad, please drop me a line and I’ll try to answer them for you. You can email me. You can follow me on Twitter. You can find me on Facebook. Read More ...
It’s not been long. I’ve only been on the wagon (that would be the writing and blogging wagon) for the last month. I can already feel I’m flagging. Now I could say it started last week when I failed to get a post up, but that would be denying the scale of the problem. It Read More …
This post transported me back to the early days after moving to this town. When it was all new and foreign and different. We wanted out. We were not going to have children here, not going to buy a house here, definitely not going to send the kids to school here. Twelve years later here we are. Read More …
Review of ‘Bir Türk Ailesinin Öykusu’ by İrfan Orga Translated by Dr. Arın Bayraktaroğlu Everest 2009 I was a little confused when I bought this book. I thought as it was written by a Turk, that it had been first published in Turkish. I was wrong. It was first published in 1950 in the UK Read More …
One of the things that aids a good procrastinator, sorry I mean distracts a good writer, is that there is endless debate about the best way to go about writing. So first you must decide if you are a planner or not. This refers to whether you will plan your manuscript to the last comma Read More …
Review of ‘Bir Sonbahar Akşamı’ by Sait Faik Abasıyanık Edited by Raşit Çavaş Doğan Kardeş Kitaplığı/Yapı Kredi Yayınları 2009 My first encounter of Sait Faik was a TRT series way back in 2002. It was called ‘Havada Bulut’ and took place on Burgaz Adası where Sait Faik lived. Bearing in mind that my Turkish Read More …
Anyone who mentions how many thousand words they throw out before breakfast, anyone at all on the #amwriting hashtag, any completely unhelpful “10 great writers who wrote prolifically” get THE LOOK from a not-writer. The one that says – I’m trying to be cool here but the truth is I’m jealous and will now Read More …
A few days ago I came across a post by Chuck Wendig that summed up a quandary I’ve been in lately. When I say came across I actually mean read in my Feedly because I follow his blog. But that sounds boringly practical, so instead imagine me wandering aimlessly through the wild grasses of the internet Read More …
Next week the London Book Fair takes place in Earls Court in London. It looks like it will be a great event with over 1600 exhibitors from 58 countries. Turkey is the Market Focus this year and will have a large presence at the fair. From cultural events, translation seminars, author interviews and much more Read More …
Review of ‘Yolda – Seçme Öyküler’ by Yaşar Kemal Edited by Güven Turan Doğan Kardeş Kitaplığı/Yapı Kredi Yayınları 2010 I bought this book along with several others by a variety of authors from a Yapı Kredi bookstore in Izmir last October. The series has dozens of book of collected stories by well-known Turkish authors Read More …
A few months ago I participated in a six-week workshop called SUM-it UP run by Global Niche. I’ve known Anastasia and Tara, founders of Global Niche, for many years. We have something in common as wives who followed Turkish men home. The course itself looked deceptively simple. Six weeks of working through visions and goals, Read More …
Welcome to Skaian Gates English. We aim to remove one hurdle in the race that leads to publication. By editing the English of non-native speakers a paper will be easier to understand and more amenable to reviewers. We also translate papers from Turkish to English in any scientific field. English language rewriting services are Read More ...
Global Literature in Libraries Initiative: ‘A Documentary Novel: “The Entrusted Trousseau – Peoples of the Exchange” by Kemal Yalçin’ 18 August 2017 Tables of Istanbul: ‘In sickness and in health’ 27 June 2016 The Irish Times: ‘I miss Ireland but the things I miss most are long gone’ 27th January 2015 – Generation Emigration ‘Ireland and Me’ Also Read More ...
Welcome! I’m Catherine Yiğit, a writer who lives in northwestern Turkey near the mythical city of Troy. I was born, bred and buttered in Dublin, Ireland and having circumnavigated the globe I arrived in Turkey in 2001. The Skaian Gate is the south gate of Troy sometimes called the Dardanian Gate. It’s mentioned in the Read More ...