TURKISH TEA
Tea garden, is the best place to drink Turkish tea, in a small glass cup, you may add sugar. In Turkey we grow tea in the Black Sea Region since last century. Please note that in Turkey we drink tea hot.

TURKISH COFFEE
No place in Turkey we grow coffee, we used to import it from Yemen in old days now from everywhere, but the way we prepare it is different than the others, in a small coffeepot and serving in a small cup with the foam on top of coffee cup is really outstanding, you are lucky if there is a coffee reader sitting next to you, can tell you lots of thing about your feature.

RAKI
Our national drink including aniseed and made of grape, in some areas mulberry or any fruit used alcohol manufactured, is being manufactured by a state run company (Tekel) while being here please try some you may start thinking you can speak Tukish after the second class, best Raki brend is Tekirdag Rakisi. While drinking Raki nice have some mezes (small dishes with verity of delicious Turkish food).

EVIL EYE
Characteristic ornament of the people living in this part of the world, which people believe that keeps bad sprite away from you and your family, for example in Turkey a new born baby will be wearing on his/her shoulder a golden evil eye, if you buy a car you get an evil eye for your car to avoid any accident or sometimes on the top of the gate of house, hotel, shop you may see that.

CIRCUMCISION
A must for Muslim and Jewish boys, as Turkey dominantly Muslim and also some Jewish people living in, great change to see the street ceremony before the poor boy get circumcised, having a son is really important for the family, so they wait until 6 or 7 years to make sure they will be having another son or not than give a really a great party inviting most of their family members to show off the other ones as having son at home because of family name, in old days boys were getting circumcised by barbers, now is being mostly done by doctors right after you born in a hospital. Best part of it is having lots of gifts inc. golden coins and cash money also the they boys get circumcised are wearing prince costum.

MARRIAGE
No way in Turkey having more than one wife, but in our dreams always having 2-3-4-5- I said dreaming not nightmare. Officially in old days, before the Modern Turkish Republic, rich people were having more than one up to four official wifes, because of the Islam under some certain conditions such as being fair to anyone he gets marry but practically it does not work well because no one is perfect. When you marry, you must sign the official paper, to get divorced easily you need two months.
Marriage is really an important event in public so all family members get involved for the preparations of ceremony. Before the marriage groom's family visits the bride family for asking the permission of arranging a party to announce of new couple's engagement, she and all her friends getting henna in to their hands to color them just before one night before they get married, the next day she wears a nice dress with a red belt, veil to cover her face until the night she and her husband go to bed together. Best man is the one with his wife in charge of having the first information to pass to both groom and bride family that she was virgin