CB on the Road: In Eastern Turkey's Yogurtlands
December 13, 2013, by Istanbul Eats, Comments 0
Veli Gürbüz's yogurt, butter, tulum and saç ekmeği, photo by Yigal Schleifer
Like many other Central Anatolian cities, Erzincan is one of those places with very little there there. The natural setting – on a high plateau and ringed by craggy peaks – is promising, but the town itself feels like it’s been scrubbed clean of all traces of history or local distinctiveness, its streets lined with characterless buildings painted in fading pastels, their ground floors occupied by the same furniture and supermarket chains found in every other city in the Turkish heartland.
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