This type of singing is not as popular as it once was. Can anyone tell me something about this singer and the movie here?

I love the way she uses her voice.  Her name is Esengül?

Esengül

Gee I wish someone would have something to say about these....I found these videos of making them.

Woman and child making cotton quilt stuffing

a man sewing the design on a quilt

Hmmm.....how sad.  Is there any movement to preserve the art form?  Turkey has numerous artisans whose arts need protection, encouragement, so it seems.  That is one of the reasons I´m doing this research. I´m sure one can commission items, don´t you think?

You laugh, but in reality IMing is very convenient for people who are away from home....or far from loved ones.  Just about everyone uses it.  You can see your family and they can see and talk with you.

It really saves on the phone bills. In the "old days" (10 years ago) phone bills were horrible....could be mega bucks.

I seem to remember seeing one in neutral colors out of a organic fabric, cotton maybe.  I think you are right about the shiny thing. My taste is more in the neutral tones.........or just about any red.

The synthetic fiber thing is a phenomena that is sweeping the whole world now.  You used to be able to get wonderful cotton scarves & Jellabas from the Arab countries, now most everything is Polyester....I have seen some fabulous embroidery on things, but they are polyester, so I won´t get  them. 

Actually, it´s long stable fiber cotton, it won´t wrinkle very much anyway, same with silk.  I have a Chinese silk jacket that never needs ironing, even though it is 100% silk.  The short fibers wrinkle, not the long ones.

Thank you Elisabeth....

You know the site you sent me to looks pretty much like American quilts.  Here is a link with a video of some beautiful Turkish quilts....called

Yorgan

The video has the oddest choice of background music....Hotel California   ???

You are correct, in fact I don´t watch any daytime TV on a regular basis.  On ocassion I see it.  It´s pretty hard to miss those programs though, they are on late night too.

Does such thing as bare it all programs like those I mentioned exist in places like Turkey?  I don´t think they do. I have seen some Turkish daytime TV and there was nothing like that on it.

....thank you TheJanissary,

But I still would like more technical information as to what they are made out of.  Just about every home I was in had them.  They are much thicker than any quilts seen here.  Some places they seemed to double as a matress as well as a top cover.  I love them they are wonderful.

They were beaufiful when they were stacked up.  I remember the ladies folding them in a special way to place against the wall, or in a special closet.  It seemed a "must have" for a bride.  Are my conclusions correct?

BTW.....I hope you do write a column on the Black Sea, or what ever you decide.

BUSSIGNY, Switzerland — A Swiss businessman appalled by his fellow countrymen´s decision to ban minarets has extended a chimney above his company building into a minaret in protest.

"It was scandalous that the Swiss voted for the ban. Now we have the support of all the far-right parties across Europe. This is shameful," Guillaume Morand, who owns a chain of shoe stores, told AFP.

The businessman, who is not a Muslim, explained that the he had constructed the mock minaret at his building near western Switzerland´s city of Lausanne in protest, and at the same time, to "send a message of peace.

Yes but you know, you are unique....special  ....but don´t you think it´s odd how people seem to really bare it all in the "West"?  I mean, Jerry Springer, Cheaters, Maury Povich...and others....I think it´s a very fundimental cultural difference.  

If the author is indeed reporting on real life matters between her new family, she is up for real problems in the future....that is. if they are in fact,  identifiable.