Travelog 2# (Sub: Istanbul Wonderful; Kadikoy, Galata, Eminonu)
Kadikoy
We also walked to Kadikoy market. There I sell a lot of typical Turkish food. There is also corn on the cob. What interests me most is that there is a halwa (Halva) food similar to haluwa in Aceh. That's traditional food in Aceh. It was an Ottoman food. That is i did after Muhammad Abdullah Azam, who was asked to accompany me, came, in the day.
Once in Kadikoy, Azam book a ferry ticket to Eminonu.
[Muhammad Abdullah Azam]
Ferries on the Bosphorus and Galata Straits
After that take the ferry to Eminonu, eat the typical Galata bread fish, behind the ekmek. Only half the back of the ekmek I could eat. Actually i want drinking coffee at café in Galata Bridge, somehow fire, my guardian friend, who is not after I chck in hotel, think I want to eat behind ekmek, and I do not like, I want to drink coffee.
Galata
Turkey was in a state of emergency Civil emergency after the coup failed July 15. While in Galata I see the difference between martial law in Turkey and in Aceh (before the 2005 Helsinki MoU). If in Aceh, security forces often check anyone, raids. While in Turkey there is no such thing. The soldiers and the nuclear police, came by bus, and stopped in the crowd, then they made the police line, alerting the police line with ready-to-fire weapons. There is no indiscriminate inspection there, so although civilian security is enforced, the people are not bothered and are not afraid.
