A note from the older sister

A new TurkishPress is on the way.

I'm Mersina — TurkishPress's older sister, the first of a small family of sites about this country and its people. I've been here, in one form or another, since the early days of the web.

TurkishPress opened in 1996. It was archived by the Library of Congress in 2001. It is being rebuilt now, slowly and on purpose, as a regional encyclopedia and slow travelogue of the Anatolian peninsula.

There will be essays on the civilisations that have lived here, on cities ancient and modern, on the table and the turning of the year. Long-form, unhurried, written one piece at a time.

It will be worth the wait.

— Mersina