Coffee

In the 15th century, Russia and Turkey first exchanged ambassadors. Returning home, the diplomats brought with them the best traditions and intrinsic, inborn objects and food. That's how coffee found its way to Russia.

A variety of tastes and recipes are awaiting coffee lovers at a three-day annual coffee festival that began in Turkish capital Ankara on Sept. 27.

Frequenters of a local coffee house in Turkey's western province of Aydın have been using a 2,000-year-old Roman milestone as a table for the last 25 years.

The Turkish Coffee Truck began a U.S. promotional tour on Sept. 9 in New York to introduce Americans to traditional Turkish coffee.       

Sunglasses of coffee waste. The accessory, which also smells of the refreshing drink, is offered by a Ukrainian company, BTA reported.

Driven by the ambition to create eco-friendly yet fashionable sunglasses, company director Maksym Havrylenko experimented with different products - mint, parsley and cardamom, before finding the right natural material in coffee waste.

A man in Turkey's southeastern province of Kahramanmaraş has been using an ancient Roman column that he discovered while building his house as a coffee table.

Turkey's first coffee museum, opened by three coffee experts in the northern province of Karabük's Safranbolu district — a UNESCO World Heritage site — to pass the 500-year-old coffee culture of Anatolia on to future generations, takes visitors on a historical journey.

The introduction of a special consumption tax on coffee in Greece in 2017 has led to the emergence of smuggling rackets that sneak the commodity over the northern border from neighboring countries such as Bulgaria, Albania and North Macedonia.

A Turkish person consumes an average of 1,300 cups of tea every year, according to the head of a coffeehouse association.

Dating back to the 15th century, Turkish coffee is more than a cup of beverage for the Turks. It is a symbol of friendship, a tool for fortune telling and an excuse for chit chatting. A cup of coffee is remembered for forty years, an old Turkish apothegm says. Click though for 9 interesting facts about Turkish coffee that you probably don’t know, compiled by İnci Hazal Özcan: