Messin’ with Texas

In case some of you didn’t realize, my comments on my blog are made using the alias skyblueshu. I have fixed that so now it will show my name as Conrad on all future posts and comments. However, old comments I have not yet figured out how to Change.
- Conrad

Two weeks ago a friend from high school, Jessica, came to visit me. She, like me, is an expatriate. She currently lives in Cadiz, Spain where she works as an English teacher. She came to visit Istanbul for one week. Below is an excerpt from her blog entry or you can click here to read [...]

The Turkish economy is actually quite good. The size of the unreported or black market economy makes Turkey reasonable stable. Despite the very volatile political situation that has been developing over the past year, the Turkish Lyra spent most of the fall being one of four currencies rising against the year. However, there are hiccups [...]

Check it out:
Turkish Government Bans YouTube!
No more YouTube!
In Turkey there is a law called article 301 which has made it illegal to insult ‘Turkishness’ since coming into effect in June of 2005. The article states:
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Article 301 states the following.[6]

A person who publicly denigrates Turkishness, the Republic or the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, shall be [...]

On Wednesday, Istanbul was shaken up by a minor Earthquake. I am not sure where I was but my flat mate felt it, so did most of my friends. Maybe because it was my first earthquake I didn’t notice it? That doesn’t make any sense does it? Regardless, people were pretty shaken up by it [...]

Sorry I haven’t written much but my wrist has been bothering me a lot because I spend too much time in front of my laptop, which has a keyboard that is too small for me. Both of my wrists are killing me right now. I have been dreading typing anything lately.
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