Turkish cuisine

İzmir Lokma, Turkish fried sweet dough, prepared on the holy month of Ramadan in Aegean province of İzmir. (AA Photo)

The travelers around our lands probably feel as if they found themselves in a hospital room of a patient with depressive disorder: the bed is unmade, a musty bowl of yogurt by the window, flies buzzing around the chamber pot. Any doctor will tell you: one of the signs of depression is the loss of desire to keep things around you tidy.

Turkey's Culture and Tourism Ministry has introduced a list of top 10 appetizers along with delights of Turkish cuisine, gastronomic routes and must-visit restaurants on its official GoTurkey website.

Introducing Turkey's tourism and cultural diversity to the world, the website has started to feature the richness of Turkish cuisine to let visitors get the authentic taste of Turkey.

Turkey's Culture and Tourism Ministry offered information on Jan. 25 related to the delights of Turkish cuisine, gastronomical routes and outstanding restaurants on the Go Turkey website. 

The ministry began including the richness of Turkish cuisine on the website, which introduces Turkey's tourism and cultural richness.

A 29-year-old Nepalese graduate student, who is studying in Istanbul, has become a master of many Anatolian dishes, ranging from baklava to white beans and stuffed grape leaves to anchovies.

Muhammed Cavit Ensari, an electronic and electrical engineer, came to Turkey four years ago to pursue a master's degree at Istanbul Technical University.

The inflation rate since the beginning of the year (May 2020 compared to December 2019) is -0.6 % and the annual inflation for May 2020 compared to May 2019 stands at 1.3%, Bulgaria's national Statistical Institute reported on June 15.

A baker in the eastern province of Kars sold a 2.20-meter pita, with "Stay at Home Turkey" written on top of it using poppy and black seed prepared for the holy month of Ramadan.

Bakery owner Mustafa Kaya, who made the Ramadan pita with a dough weighing about 14 kilograms, said that he prepared such a thing in order to raise awareness to coronavirus measures.

Some 30,000 shops sell around a total of 900,000 kilograms of traditional döner kebab each day across Turkey, making a great contribution to the local economy, according to the head of a trading group.

"Döner makers are also the main players in the local meat market as they create strong demand," Muhammet Nezif Emek, the head of Döner Shop Owners' Association, told Anadolu Agency.

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Turkey collected 9.56 million tons of cow's milk in 2019, the country's statistical authority revealed on Feb. 12.

The 2019 figure slipped 4.7 percent compared to the previous year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) said in a statement.

The country produced 1.5 million tons of drinking milk last year, indicating a 7.3 percent annual drop.