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Absurd Istanbul:

'...We’re talking solarium-tanned girls with nose jobs wearing DKNY sunglasses, walking ridiculous little dogs that match their designer jeans, and talking on cell-phones with noisome nasal tones before getting into daddy’s-birthday-present-car to drive off either to a brasserie, a hairdresser, or back to the tanning salon for a little touch up on that skin cancer she’s been working on since summer. They usually congregate around Nisantasi, armed with credit cards and armored with make-up....

...If you want to have some fun, yell “POLIS!” (police) or “ZABITA” (patrol car) when they pass by. There’s nothing funnier than seeing a guy trying to run as fast as he can while pushing a cart full of oranges...

...These Gypsy’s just sitting there with their flowers watching the world go by, are the closest Istanbul has to Zen masters. They’re like the only true embodiment of wisdom in a volatile and absurd city of millennia... '

CLICK HERE for a hilarious, if somewhat profane, synopsis of Istanbul.

The Tophane Art Walk is nice.

Also, this is interesting:

In Turkish, The verbs for drinking (alcohol, tea)

and smoking (cigarettes, hookah)

are the same word.

(içiyorum.)