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                    [ArticleID] => 1485617
                    [Title] => Turkish delight
                    [Summary] => 

I once heard that Madonna was building a hamam in her home.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-06 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1371538 [AuthorName] => Janthina Fong [SectionName] => YStyle [SectionUrl] => ystyle [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/ystyle/20150807/Turkish-Delight-2.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1383992 [Title] => PSID’s ‘Globalscapes’ on its last week at SM [Summary] =>

Traveling makes a person wiser, more sophisticated. It affords a person to absorb a country’s culture and traditions, to soak in the place’s architecture, art, music, and natural environment, and to know its people up close and personal.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1383122 [Title] => Pope to visit Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia in Turkey [Summary] =>

Pope Francis will visit sites that recall Turkey's often-tumultuous history at a cultural crossroads between continents and faiths during a three-day visit to the country next month.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-22 07:08:42 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 903711 [Title] => Test your Design IQ [Summary] =>

This mosque was built on the order of Sultan Süleyman and construction work began in 1550 and finished in 1558.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 860232 [Title] => Beyond ‘Turkish delight on a moonlit night’ [Summary] =>

What took me so long? I thought to myself in the middle of my two-week tour of Türkiye (“land of the Turks”) with my family where we went on a 3,000-kilometer whirling dervish of a road trip circling the Western half of the country from Istanbul (the only city embracing both Europe and Asia), through the ancient civilizations of the Aegean Sea, inland towards the rock wonders of Cappadocia, then westward through the nation’s capital of Ankara and back to Istanbul.

[DatePublished] => 2012-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135147 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1439782 [AuthorName] => Katrina Ann Tan [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img706/2803/ystar5thumby.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 815429 [Title] => 10 reasons to visit Istanbul [Summary] =>

I arrived in Istanbul long before I stepped into Turkey.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133890 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1292169 [AuthorName] => Edu Jarque [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 589151 [Title] => Seven days in Istanbul [Summary] =>

The Friendliest People on Two Continents. People in Istanbul are really friendly. Every time I walked out of my hotel, lots of guys would come up, ask me where I was from, and walk alongside just to keep me company.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1487502 [AuthorName] => Manny Gonzalez, Plantation Bay Resort & Spa [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 319047 [Title] => Beautiful Istanbul & 10 Turkish delights [Summary] => Istanbul was Constantinople

Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople

Been a long time gone, Constantinople

Now it’s Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople

Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople

So if you’ve a date in Constantinople

She’ll be waiting in Istanbul.

[DatePublished] => 2006-01-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1427983 [AuthorName] => Joy L. Buensalido [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) ) )
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