Turkish Coffee

Turkish Coffee

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Turkish Coffee episodes

  • Delights of Reading: Why pen is mightier than the sword?
    Aygen and Nazlan, two bookworms, dive into the world of books and discuss what they read, why they read and how a book changes each time it is read. 
    References:
    The New Life by Orhan Pamuk, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams,
    The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wide,
    Master and Marguerite by Mikhail Bolgakov, Oblomov by Ivan Aleksandrovich,
    1984 by George Orwell, 1985 by György Dalos, The World of Yesterday by Stephan Zweig,
    Midnight at the Pera Palace by Charles King, The Revolt of Aphrodite by Lawrence Durrell,
    Walden by Henry David Thoreau, All works of Şule Gürbüz, All works of Refik Halit Karay,
    All works of Martin Amis, All works of Dorothy Parker, Brainpickings by Maria Popova, Complete Works of Bernard Shaw, Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, How Proust can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
    15 min
  • New Year Party Time!
    As most of the world ends 2020 under lockdown, Aygen and Nazlan dive into New Year Parties, past-present, real-imagined, hilarious or awful!
    References:
    Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol 
    Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
    Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald 
    Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
    Atonement, Ian Mcewan
    For songs used in this episode:
    ♫ Track: [Electro Swing] Dimaa - The Roaring Twenties [No Copyright Music]
    ♫ Watch: https://youtu.be/-SeBzpWM_as
    Song: Nekzlo - Happy New Year (Vlog No Copyright Music)
    Music promoted by Vlog No Copyright Music.
    15 min
  • 2020 in Review: Words, People, Events (so far!)
    Aygen and Nazlan discuss the year 2020, which to them sounded like a dystopian movie, from Covid19 to natural disasters; political unrest to wars.
    References:
    Politico Class of 2021
    Word of the Year Oxford, Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com
    Sarah Cooper lip sync of Donald Trump (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkKYVp9SE1g)
    The Empty Glass by Louise Glück
    12 min
  • For Love of the Crown
    After a sleepless night watching the last season of The Crown, Aygen and Nazlan discuss - and mostly disagree- on just what makes this Netflix series interesting to watch.
    References:
    The Crown, Netflix Series
    Ethos, Netflix Series
    The Queen (film directed by Stephen Frears)
    A Man for All Seasons (film by Fred Zinneman)
    20 min
  • Alone or with company? Who has it hardest in Lockdown?
    Nazlan and Aygen, who have again had their Coffee Talk long-distance, wonder out loud just when loneliness and lockdowns become too much.
    Far Away From A Lost Home by Arthur Vyncke | https://soundcloud.com/arthurvost
    Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US
    13 min
  • Lessons in Hindsight: Dear 17 year old me!
    In the first podcast of the year, Aygen and Nazlan wonder out loud on what they would tell their 17-year-old selves to prepare them for love, life - and politics.
    Music used in this podcast:
    "Escape by Sappheiros" is under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0)
    Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://bit.ly/b-escape
    and
    Explosive Finale by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com
    Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
    Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    16 min
  • New Year Resolutions: Love 'em, Leave 'em
    Refusing to succumb to half-hearted resolutions, Aygen Aytaç and Nazlan Ertan come up with their own, with a bit of help from writers, satirists and ghosts of the past.
    References:
    The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russel 
    Schopenhauer as Educator, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
    16 min
  • Staying Home but Not Alone
    Nazlan and Aygen take up another particularity of the Turkish Culture, "the housegirls" - young women who stay the parental house, neither study nor work and wait for their Big Fat Turkish Wedding.
    12 min
  • Family ties: How aunts yield power in Turkey
    Aygen and Nazlan discuss “yenge” - aunts by marriage- and their complex role in the family and outside.
    References:
    Yengeler Cumhuriyeti ed. Tanil Bora and Mustafa Çiftçi (in Turkish)
    Sıdıka by Atilla Atalay (in Turkish)
    Forbidden Love by Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil
    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    How to be a Good Wife (film directed by Martin Prevost)
    12 min

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Whether in vibrant traditional coffee houses or in the privacy of homes, Turkish coffee has accompanied conversation about a wide range of subjects throughout centuries. The "Turkish Coffee" podcasts…