Turkish cuisine

Baking börek is not rocket science. Any idiot can do it. It is a trap for girls. Have you ever seen a man say he will learn how to make börek so his marriage can last? Börek is a Turkish pastry. We even have a song for it: ?Börekler açar?m sana,? (I will make böreks for you) by Nazan Öncel. I was going to give the link to the song but I listened to it and decided not to.

A heart-warming story in Istanbul turned into a heart-breaking one for a business owner, when a local woman fed 35 Syrian refugee children before fleeing the restaurant without paying.

Readers of news website Radikal have selected Turkey’s top restaurants to eat doner kebab - a Turkish dish made of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, normally lamb but sometimes beef or chicken. Here is the list

Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has opened a three-day tourist fair in the French capital Paris. The official slogan of the event is ''Bulgaria - Culture and Traditions''.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has kept up with tradition and enjoyed Turkish döner as the eurozone grappled with the deepening Greece crisis

Istanbul has been has the hub of three imperial haute cuisines, making use of not only lo-cal but imported foodstuffs ranging from caviar from the north coast of the Black Sea to spices from India. But one special import ingredient has defined its royal cuisine right from the start. Here Mary I??n explains:

Friends pretending to beat up the groom just before the first private moments with his newlywed wife is a curious tradition in many parts of Turkey - but it rarely ends in a visit to the hospital.

Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul's AzzuR Restaurant will offer a distinctive fast-breaking (iftar) buffet highlighting the rich heritage of Turkish and Ottoman cuisine to the accompaniment of live "fas?l" music for Ramadan between June 18 and July 16. 

Army Park at Goudi has been transformed into a huge picnic site with tables, open-air spits and volunteers present to feed socially weak groups and ensure that these people can enjoy an Easter meal. The event, organized by the Ministry of Defense, offers 1,500 goats, 200 lambs, 100 kokoretsi (skewered intestines) to vulnerable groups who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford the Easter meal.

Japanese dairy products maker Meiji has expressed interest in investing in Bulgaria's southwestern region of Petrich, according to a media statement of the Petrich Municipality.

Bulgaria's Deputy Economy Minister Lyuben Petrov met with representatives of Meiji in Sofia in early March.