“Acele iŞe Şeytan karıŞır.” English equivalent: Haste makes waste. Meaning: If you hurry your work it will turn out wrong. One of the top places on my travel bucket list got checked off this year — I ...

Oghuz Turks in western Turkey have been keeping thousands of years old rug weaving tradition alive with the support of the district governorate. Bayat rug, produced of sheep wool and madder root with ...

PHILADELPHIA — George Jevremovic didn’t set out to become the savior of the Oriental rug trade. He wanted to be a writer until he followed his college girlfriend to her native Turkey in 1979, caught ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When I first heard the voice message, I played it two more times to be sure I’d heard right. Hakan Zor, the rug merchant my husband and I met six months ...

It can take nearly a year to hand-weave a traditional Turkish carpet, which can often cost thousands of dollars. But now, because of Turkey's stalling economy and the COVID-19 pandemic, an industry ...