Turkey: Through a Bobcat’s lens
In the same cafe as the the one with waiter serving tea (previous slide), a woman begs with her children. Despite her desperate condition, I noticed that no one paid attention to her plight. Phillip Dube '16/Bates College.
A waiter serving Turkish tea at a cafe in Urfa, southeast Turkey. Cafes are places to socialize, play games and have some beverages. Phillip Dube '16/Bates College.
Rooftop soccer: A ball belonging to a group of boys falls off the rooftop as they play soccer, a common sport in most parts we visited. A lack of flat spaces in this area leads them to play the game on a rooftop. Phillip Dube '16/Bates College.
Road construction in Mardin, a city in southeast Turkey. With the economic boom in Turkey, many cities across the country are investing in infrastructure projects. Sometimes these projects inconvenience people, as the workers here piled paving stones on the sidewalk while they worked on the road. Phillip Dube '16/Bates College.
A typical Turkish breakfast with generous spreads of cheese, cold meats, olives, bread, etc. Most Turks usually have breakfast with tea in these wasp-waisted glasses. And they drink it throughout the day over conversation or with meals. Phillip Dube '16/Bates College.
Short Term can be the best time of the academic year at Bates, and one reason is that it allows students in a course to travel together.
This past Short Term, I took the course “Turkey: From Empire to State” with Assistant Professor of Politics Senem Aslan. The class explored the ethnic and religious diversity of the country and current developments in Turkish politics. For part of the course, we ventured forth to Turkey to engage in conversation with different groups of people there, and to visit the historic mosques and Gobeike Tepe, a stone structure built 11,000 years ago for, it’s believed, religious purposes.
After two weeks in Turkey we had acquired vast first-hand knowledge and taken a lot of photographs. This slideshow documents our experience in Turkey.
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