Interview with a German radio station

Yesterday at the castle in Kahramanmaraş, Emine and I ran into a crew interviewing locals for a German radio station. They were gathering local opinions on the deployment of German troops to support Patriot missiles that will be placed in Maraş and aimed at Syria....

Economist article about Gaziantep

“The secret of the region’s new strength lies in its ancient links with Syria and Iraq. Antep is on the old silk road that leads to Aleppo.” –from The Economist Here’s the rest of the article…...

Filling in some cracks

Got to watch some sculptors at work today. When cracks open up in the clay, Mehmet bey has to fill them in.