Ünal’s work will examine the Turkish tales three foreign travelers heard at the coffee-houses in Istanbul from a western perspective, while reviews also the personal stories of these travelers. Their lives intersected in Istanbul, at the end of the 19th century, and this unusual meeting united their names on the same pages of two books, published in two continents. They appreciated Turkish humor so much that they decided to publish Turkish tales told in the coffee-houses in English. This is the story of American Cyrus Adler, Scottish Allan Ramsay, and Irish Francis McCullough, meeting at the coffee-houses of the Ottoman Empire.
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