Musings on the online life
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 ...
Expat Harem – Culinary Tales of Foreign Women in Turkey (edited by Katherine Belliel and Francesca Rosa): Afternoon Tea Alfa Yayinlari (Turkey) 2019 (Link ships to Turkey) Also available in Turkish: Expat Sofra – Türkiye’de Yaşayan Yabancı Kadınların Mutfak Hikâyeleri (Yazarlar Katherine Belliel, Francesca Rosa Çevirmen: İrem Kutluk) Çay Partisindeki Sürpriz Alfa Yayinlari (2019) Expat Sofra – Read More ...
I grew up fed on a diet of Star Trek, both original and Next Generation, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke. My science fiction was for the most part idealistic; as humans our ingenuity could solve all problems even the ones we created ourselves. I discovered Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy in university and again Read More …
A few months ago I spent a week in Istanbul. The first few days were shrouded in mist and damp. Mealtimes were announced by the cries of hungry seagulls circling around the building, screaming for the bread thrown out the windows. Though right in the centre of Istanbul, we were on an island. Read More …
Review of ‘Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü’ by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Dergah 1961 (17th Print 2012) This wonderful book tells the story of Hayri Irdal, a man adrift from the times he lives in. He begins as a successful member of the Time Regulation Institute, but very quickly we learn that it’s all gone wrong and he Read More …
It can be easy to assume that life exists in the screen these days. It’s where work comes from and friendships are kindled and continued, it’s where we go for entertainment and distraction and, especially relevant in Turkey, our source for news. As I write there are 3 screens in front of four people in Read More …
I’ve been putting off writing this blogpost. It feels a little like pinning down a butterfly. Flying around it creates wonderful glimpses of colour but I know if I don’t pin it down, it will flutter on its way and the memory of it will fade. I attended a poetry workshop in the local university 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 …
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 not available. Our language-editing and translation Read More ...
Expat Harem – Culinary Tales of Foreign Women in Turkey (edited by Katherine Belliel and Francesca Rosa): Afternoon Tea Alfa Yayinlari (Turkey) 2019 (Link ships to Turkey) Also available in Turkish: Expat Sofra – Türkiye’de Yaşayan Yabancı Kadınların Mutfak Hikâyeleri (Yazarlar Katherine Belliel, Francesca Rosa Çevirmen: İrem Kutluk) Çay Partisindeki Sürpriz Alfa Yayinlari (2019) Expat Sofra – 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 ...