This is part 1 of a 3 part series on buying a car in Turkey as a foreigner. Click to see Part 2: Selling a Car in Turkey and Part 3.
This post is a bit different than the normal ones we usually feature at CaptivatingCappadocia.com. Instead of highlighting the incredible people and sites to visit, I want to share a comical event that may ring true with many other foreigners’ general experience who have lived in Turkey for any amount of time.
Let me just say this straight away: I love Turkey. If I didn’t, I would have left many years ago. Also, I need to say that instead of interpreting this post as a complaint, I encourage you to see this as an apology for why I love living in a land of the unpredictable. I laughed several times throughout the experience that I am setting before you. I merely want to see if I can turn the experience of a foreigner attempting to follow protocol into something that is “captivating”, peeling back the veneer of a two part process that we all have had to go through: the purchase and the selling of automobiles. My experience, however, was in another culture, carried out in another language, undergirded by another value system that at times still caught me by surprise even after 10 years of living in this great land.
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What is your favorite genre?
Why do you listen to it, and
Why do you love it so much?
Here is one man’s reason why he loves music:
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Break me.
Into pieces.
Then, do it again.
If Rambo had chosen a Turkish Bath, he would have no doubt chosen the Damat İbrahim Paşa Hamam, where the masseurs are trained in “old school” techniques. This place is not for the faint of heart, nor for those with bad backs, nor for those with weak knees, nor for those with…I think you get the picture.
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At the time of Ibrahim Paşa (1660-1730), his little town of Muşkara, was governed by nearby Ürgüp, and belonged to the larger province of Niğde, and contained 18 homes! But with his ascent to the right hand of the Sultan (1718-1730), Ibrahim Paşa changed Muşkara into a new city, earning the name Nevşehir (Nev- new, şehir – city).
He transformed the city with a major construction project in the middle of town. The complex consists of a mosque, school, library, soup kitchen, hamam and a caravan saray! It was completed in 1727 and offers a great place to visit if you come to Nevşehir, Cappadocia.
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Owner Erhan Üslü may be worth the price of admission alone.
The excitement and enthusiasm exuding from Erhan for his work at Alaaddin hamam was contagious. Even if you had no desire to experience a traditional Turkish bath upon arrival in Cappadocia, after speaking with Erhan Bey, you would not miss out on the experience if your life depended on it.
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