Taxis in Turkey |
Wednesday Jan 31 2007
By Elizabeth Russell
Bio
Thinking about the place of elders in other cultures, I’m reminded of my days in Turkey. Although I wasn’t, by American standards, an elder (I was in late middle age at that time), I was considered so by the people in that culture. My first experience was in Izmir, Turkey, where I was teaching English at Ege University. Some of the time, I took a dolmus (share taxi) to and from the university. I had no problem getting a space in the taxi going to the university because we lived at the beginning of the route, but coming home was a different matter.
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