Punny Turkey

Dalyan (Southern Turkey):

a treasure trove of imaginative signs

I did not find out whether their quest for happiness made their guests happy...

ICE (buz) being sold in the FIRE (ateş) market  

İztuzu Beach - my favorite beach, not just because it's out of control:

  

  sign in front of a restaurant in Dalyan

Name of a hotel in Dalyan: can you guess what it's supposed to mean?
*Solution see below  

Istanbul, intellectual metropolis

"Don't park here, and don't ask!" (seen in Beyoğlu)
This meant double smiles for me, because I lived nearby in a street that had previously been called Sormagir Sokak, "Don't ask, enter!"-Street; it used to be colorful transvestites street, I am told, but they had been driven away by the authorities, and the name replaced by boring Başkurt Sokak, which only means something to nationalists.

Istanbul's literary animals

"Untitled"

Look closely at the photo, and you'll figure out what a "BAKSIR" is...

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*the Turkish name gives it away: "gizli" means both "hidden" and "confidential"