<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">My friends call me Ayşe Anne. (“Mother Ayşe”)</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I am a restaurant manager and cook. If I hadn't done that, I would have wanted to take on hotel management, which I am already trained for.&nbsp;</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">According to my friends, my specialty is cooking food. Hospitality, if you ask me.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I live in Cankurtaran in Istanbul, but in my heart I am from Büyükdere.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">If I'm not at home in the neighborhood, I'm usually&nbsp;in Giritli, my restaurant.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">If I find a beloved neighbor in the community I live in, I feel like I belong there.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the neighborhood, I like walking on the shore the most because&nbsp;the seaside gives me peace with the smell of iodine and the southwester.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the morning, I start my day by drinking mint tea around 7-8 a.m. I don't end the day without a glass of wine.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">When I'm looking for a quick chitchat in the neighborhood, I go out the door.&nbsp;I speak with all the neighbors or the children of the neighborhood.&nbsp;</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Only a true Cankurtaran local, who is fond of their stomach, knows that Giritli is the hood tavern.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">You can find the songs that are currently playing at Giritli in <a fr-original-style="" href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3T1XoD2CDksISSM0XoGE80?si=TtHlvZI3T2ysKMyiKBldxQ&nd=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">this playlist</a>. This is mostly the ones I gathered during my travels to Greece.</li></ul>

Soli

A gathering around the dining table in Cankurtaran, present company includes regulars, a few tek (glasses of single rakı) and heart-to- heart conversations. Across the crowd sits Ayşe Anne. She starts talking. 

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