Delightful secrets

Turkey has a long and glorious history, even if it was not always known by its present name. LIM AI LEE explores Turkish delights from ancient Troy through the Ottoman centuries to the modern secular republic.

FOR many years during the Ottoman Empire (1299-1923), the women in Kusadasi, western Turkey, held on to one of their best-kept secrets – Ladies Beach.

It was only after the country became a republic in 1923 and, ironically, when women attained the right to vote, that men gained equal access to one of the prettiest stretches of the Aegean shore.

Ladies Beach in Kusadasi has been compared to Cannes in France and it’s not difficult to see why: the magnificent coastline is lapped by azure waters that mirror the cloudless skies.

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A SPECULATIVE QUESTION IN HISTORY?

Would any of the non-Turkish friends like to attempt understanding and replying the following query in Turkish?

The first historically plausible (errors in Turkish will be forgiven) reply, if any, will get a prize.

Yıl 1453; Türkler İstanbulu kuşattığında, Papa neden Bizanslı Hristiyanlara hiç yardım etmedi?