Istanbul who? It’s all about Ankara.
View Photo Gallery — A glimpse of Ankara, Turkey’s ‘second city’: Turkey’s second-largest city has been the capital since 1923, when the modern republic was founded.
By Andrea Sachs, Thursday, January 9, 6:05 PM E-mail the writer
For two days, on and off, I sat with Ahmet Geyikoglu, a textile and furniture dealer who kept the hours of a corporate lawyer. We downed cups of black tea and Turkish coffee in the afternoon, graduating to stronger stuff after nightfall. Twice we stepped out for a snack of sac boregi, an Anatolian spin on the quesadilla.
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