Turkish cuisine

Turkey's authentic döner kebap has evolved from being cheap fast-food, mostly preferred by Europe's migrant communities, into a "food concept" that has dominated the world in an upward trend, French food geographer Pierre Raffard has said. 

The year 2016 has been a year that we wish to forget in many ways, but I do try to look at the brighter side and remember fondly some of its memorable moments and morsels. This year most of the culinary highlights each month were strangely interwoven with other events or coincidences that happened later in the year.

Having conquered the United Kingdom, Greek yogurt is now rapidly gaining ground in another major European market: Italy.

Kri-Kri Milk Industry SA announced on Friday that its 10-month 2016 ice-cream sales in the Greek market went up by 15 percent year-on-year, its 10-month Greek market yogurt sales rose 11 percent and its six-month 2016 yogurt exports in countries of Western Europe increased 39 percent on an annual basis.

A band plays lively music on İzmir's Kıbrıs Şehitleri Street, a smaller version of Istanbul's İstiklal, in front of the Alsancak Bakery.

The perfect nibble! These crispy bites drizzled with a rich, sweet syrup add a taste of Greece to any tea party or coffee break…

Serves: 24 Preparation time: 20m Cooks in: 15m Ready in: 35m

American yogurts’ sales have decreased in the face of competition from organic and Greek – style yogurt.
The maker of Cheerios cereal and Betty Crocker cake mix has been selling Yoplait yogurt in the U.S. since 1977. But as shoppers switch to thicker, low-carb Greek-style yogurt, the sweeter American varieties are falling out of favor.

Different dough gives the traditional Greek sweet a different texture.

Serves: 1 full dish of 36 cm in diameter Preparation time: 20m Cooks in: 55m Ready in: 1h 15m

An alternative to the classic recipe using different filo pastry. Kataifi dough gives the sweet a different texture.

Turkish and Greek cuisine share many more similar traits than just similar names; in fact, the two cuisines are remarkably similar. Whether it's dolma in Turkish or dolmades in Greek, both cuisines share a fascinating journey into the senses with a variety of scrumptious food. Elements of both cuisines are a mixture of Western and Eastern food.

Turkish police seized over a ton of smuggled meat in the Enez district of the western province of Edirne bordering Greece on April 4, in the latest attempt to smuggle cheaper meat into the country.