İğde is a a kind of fruit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olea_oleaster It says wild olive- or feral olive.
The shop round the corner promised me that he will bring keçi boynuzu too..
Keçi boynuzu is translated as goat horn but actually it is nothing to do with the goats. It is carob tree pods.

Interestingly when I was looking for a picture, what I learnt is that the weight of the seeds you get from these pods never changes. The seeds used as weight by Arabs, Selcuks and Ottomans. 16 seeds were making a "dirhem" (1 dirhem =3.2 grams)
We have a Turkish phrase "2 dirhem 1 cekirdek". It is used for people who wear make up or smart clothes. Cekirdek means seed. That cekirdek is the seed of the goat horn I was talking about in the beginning 
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