Charlotte McPherson is an American with dual citizenship who has lived in Turkey since 1979. For her graduate studies at Indiana University she specialized in Uralic Altaic languages and history. She has an MA in Anthropology, and during the 1980s she conducted extensive research in Turkey and Central Asia among Turkic-speaking peoples. She has lectured in Social Anthropology at Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, and has written many scholarly papers and several books.
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Don't just see the sights— get to know the people. At first glance, Turkey may seem Westernized and entirely 'modern'— but appearances can be misleading. It is above all a land of contrasts, a heady mixture of Oriental etiquette and ultramo... SEE MORE