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Diary of life along the Golden Horn - An unedited story of one Australian woman's experiences of living in Istanbul, Turkey

 
In recent years a book has been published with the highly flossed, glossed and edited stories of foreign women living in Turkey. This blog has not been flossed, glossed or edited. It contains original text, some of which has been published in magazines and newspapers in Turkey and the United Kingdom. It also contains original text that has been rejected or 'censored' for just being too honest, too truthful or just a little bit difficult for some locals to read.

The power of water

As I sit and write this at the kitchen table, I look around and see countless containers full of water. By the sink, on the chopping block and behind me


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How did an Aussie woman with no Turkish ties end up in a place like this?

I have just spent twenty minutes trying to explain this for a film crew from the Netherlands, as I have done on countless occasions. Despite the fact that Istanbul is


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