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Bitlis

In The Kingdom of Urartu
16 Aug 2019

In The Kingdom of Urartu

by Trici Venola | posted in: Sketchbook Adventures | 2

Old friend Celal Ögmen, proprietor of Kalamar Restaurant in Kumkapi in Istanbul, asked me if I’d like to go to Eastern Turkey and draw his mother’s village. As a teenager, Celal came to Istanbul and took a job at a fish restaurant, inveigling tourists … Continued

Adilcevaz, Armenian, Bitlis, Eastern Turkey, Lake Van, Mountains, sketchbooks, Turkish families, Urartu, Villages

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