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Wall of Broken Tiles

 

Broken Tiles. Istanbul, Turkey. November 2012.

My friend Roz and I came across this wall while strolling through Sultanahmet. What I love about these particular fragments is that many of them feature the tulip. The tulip is the national flower of Turkey, a fact that I was completely unaware of prior to my trip. Tulip, is actually derived from "tulbend," the Turkish word for the turban due to the flower's shape and likeness to one.