Ordering food online

Posted: 09:42 PM by admin in Internet, Turkey
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There is a fantastic service that allows us to order food online. It is called Yemeksepeti.com (something like food basket) where we can order food in almost every turkish city. Restaurants join this service and customers are allowed to order from their computers to every restaurant that serves in a given area. We can also choose different paying methods and usually the food comes to hour house in no more than half an hour, depending on the kind of restaurant and its situation.

 

Moreover, the web has an english version. However the translation of the products depends of every restaurant but some of them include pictures of every dish.

A great option if we are hungry but lazy.

Istanbul is full of Taxis everywhere and at all times.

Some of these Taxis gather into a stop/company and others are not. We can know this because of a logo they have at the side of the car. If there is no logo, it means that they didn’t join no company.

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Movies and TV shows online

Posted: 02:25 PM by admin in Internet, Turkey
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Turkey has its own streaming website where you can watch either movies or TV Shows.

It is called diziport.com and there we can watch everything in their original language and usually with turkish subtitles.

Web censorship in Turkey (2)

Posted: 01:34 PM by admin in Turkey
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The first entry of this blog explained how to access blocked sites in Turkey.

The best solution is to change the DNS and use the ones that OpenDNS provides us.

By doing this we’ll also make faster all the website browsing we do.

There are many guides about how to change the DNS all over the internet. Here you can find guides for Windows, Mac and Linux.

The DNS we should use are:

  • 208.67.222.222
  • 208.67.220.220

Some of you may know that whenever you tried to call a Turkcell cellphone, a music starts playing. Turkcell charges some amount of money for having this service that comes by default when buying a sim card.

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Important phone numbers

Posted: 08:55 PM by admin in Turkey
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The international LADA code for Turkey is (+90) followed by the area code and the phone number.

Land Line.

Istanbul has two different area codes of 3-digits depending if the phone is located at the European side (212) or Asian side (216). If you are in one of those sides and want to call a phone on the other side, just dial 0 followed by its area code. Read more… »

Turkish currency

Posted: 03:52 PM by admin in Burocracy, Turkey
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From January the 1st 2009, Turkey uses Turkish Lira (TL) as their currency. The previous currency was called New Turkish Lira and 1 TL is 1.000.000 New Turkish Lira.

Nowadays in Turkey we can find papers of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 200 TL. The coins are 1 TL and 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 kurus, which are like euro cents. 100 kurus = 1 TL. Read more… »

Turkey: a seismic zone

Posted: 12:10 AM by admin in Turkey
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As some of you may know, Turkey is located in a seismic zone. Its territory is in between two tectonic plates; one from Africa that goes north and another one located in Eurasia.

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Flying to Istanbul from Spain

Posted: 04:19 AM by admin in Turkey
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Istanbul has two different airports,

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Feast days

Posted: 07:42 PM by admin in Turkey
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Here you can find a list of the feast days of Turkey organized by years.

  • TATİL GÜNÜNÜN İSMİ: Name of the feast.
  • SÜRE: Duration.
  • AY: Date.
  • GÜN: Week’s day.