I had a memorable summer volunteering with the Turkish Education Volunteers Foundation (TEGV) in the summer of 2002. I volunteered as an English teacher. I had a nice assistant but we spent most of the time, it seemed, on field trips. I got to see much of Istanbul through TEGV. The students had fun with me too. … [Read more...] about Turkish Education Volunteers Foundation
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Swordsman in Istanbul
One of my most memorables times during graduate school. I spent the 2001 summer interning with TEGV in Istanbul, Turkey. During this time Turkey was in turmoil, the US was thinking about invading Iraq while the Turks, not happy about this invasion, was about to elect Tayyip Erdogan and the AK Party into government. To add to the excitement, Turkey had finished in the top 3 … [Read more...] about Swordsman in Istanbul