in the mountains above Bursa...

every three or four students in the program are assigned a Turkish buddy: a college student who we're supposed to talk and hang out with. Today my buddy took us up to Tophane, the oldest part of Bursa, dating to the times of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire. We had a good time, looking at the tombs of the earlier Ottoman emperors and afterwards sitting at a cafe with a beautiful view of all of Bursa. As we were descending back towards the more modern part of the city, however, we ran across this.