Storyteller Aşki Efendi reading a newspaper in a coffeehouse
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» next entryoverview« previous entry| Object: | Storyteller Aşki Efendi reading a newspaper in a coffeehouse |
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| Description: | The well-known storyteller (meddah) Aşki Efendi is sitting on a wooden bench in a kahvehane, looking at a newspaper he is holding with both hands. The text is in Ottoman script. Aşki Efendi is wearing a fes, a wide collarless jacket made of the same material as his trousers, a collarless white shirt, and a handkerchief around his neck. He is sitting between two marble-topped tables with his elbow propped on the one to his right, which is covered with more newspapers. |
| Comment: | The scene takes place in a kahvehane in the Kadırga neighbourhood, Fatih. Ottoman script was in use in the Turkish Republic until 1928. |
| Date: | 1924 |
| Location: | Istanbul, Kadırga, Fatih |
| Country: | Turkey (contemporary) |
| Turkey (historical) |
| Type: | Photographic negative |
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| Creator: | Görgüç, Namık |
| Keywords: | 170 History and Culture Change > 173 Traditional History 530 Arts > 5310 Verbal Arts 270 Drink, Drugs, and Indulgence > 275 Drinking Establishments |
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| Copyright: | Cengiz Kahraman |
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| Archive: | Cengiz Kahraman, Istanbul (Collection Private collection), Inv. No.: ASKI - MEDDAH - CAM NGTF - NAMIK |
| Editors: | Yorick Tanner, Cengiz Kahraman, Nataša Mišković |
| Permalink: | https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:siba.1111 |
