1 Welcome to the final issue of the year! It’s been a wonderful year in the Açı Pulse club, and the students have worked hard to create a final magazine. Insıde you’ll find info on school trips, local businesses, football stars and more. Thanks for reading, and we hope you will join us again next year! Gülcan İsmail, Tolunay Aktanır and John Dugan Açı Pulse Staff Advisors In This Issue School News 3 Lifestyles 5 Entertainment 7 Sports 8 Contributors Bahçeköy campus: Sarıyer campus: Selin Elcheik Teoman Özaydın Defne Genç Selin Seskır Bengisu Baysal Emir Ziya Demir Maya Vahabzadeh Serena Bilmen Aksel Berk Ömer Uğural Morel İleri Emre Pinto Alp Altınok Sassan Vahabzadeh Yurda Karahasan Ahmet Karadeniz Deniz Hakman Elay Sungur 2 Our principal: Tulip Festival brings beauty to Emirgan Ms. Saliha By Serena Bilmen and Selin Seskır Açı Pulse Reporters Emirgan Park is a park Aslan speaks right in the middle of Emirgan. It is surrounded By Selin Seskır, Sassan by trees and is very Vahabzadeh, Elay Sungur peaceful. It is a great and Deniz Hakman place to have a beautiful Açı Pulse Reporters walk. From the 1st to the Reporters from Açı Pulse 30th of April was the sat down with Açı Middle Tulip Festival in Emirgan School principal Saliha Q: Have you worked at Park. The tulip was Aslan for interviews twice other schools? originally a wild flower this year, once in the first A: I have worked at one grown in Central Asia and term and once in the other school, TED High was first cultivated by the Turks as early as fourth. Here are some of School. 1000 AD. The flower was her answers. Q: Do you have children? introduced in Westen Q: Which university did A: Yes, I have two Europe and the Nether- you graduate from? children, Ali and Kerim. lands in the 17th century A: Boğaziçi University. Q: What do you do in by Carolus Clusius, a famous biologist from Q: How long have you your free time? Vienna, Austria. been doing this job? A: Read books. A: Ten years. Q: Who was your role Q: When did you start model when you were doing this job? growing up? A: 2003. A: My English teacher. 3 Edirne shines for Açı students By Emre Pinto Açı Pulse Reporter Students from grade 7 took a field trip to Edirne this spring, where they got to tour many important Turkish monuments. Among those were an Ottoman-era hospital, the largest synagogue in Turkey and Selimiye Mosque. Selimiye Mosque is an Ottoman mosque in is one of the greatest Edirne that Mimar Sinan achievements of Islamic built for Selim II. This architecture. Selimiye mosque was built Mosque has four minarets between 1569 and 1575. on it. Inside, the mosque It was considered by Sinan is one of the biggest in to be his masterpiece and Turkey. Above: Students sit on the floor of Selimiye Mosque and admire the patterns painted inside. The largest synagogue in Turkey was under construction while Açı students visited. Left: Selimiye Mosque, one of the largest in Turkey, built in 1575. Below: Students visited an Ottoman hospital museum and had lunch along the river. Photos by John Dugan. 4 Ceviz Café serves up local treats Açı Pulse Staff MC: It was founded in Reporters from Açı Pulse 2006 in Göktürk. visited Ceviz Café last week AP: Do you cook your own and tasted their delicious food or do you buy it from food. They interviewed outside? Miss Çiğdem, who has been MC: We cook our own happily working there since food. We import the food 2011. Oya Özgen, the daily from our main branch. owner of Ceviz Café, was AP: Who are your not there when we visited. customers? Açı Pulse: Where does the MC: People come here name “Ceviz” come from? from all over Istanbul, but Miss Çiğdem: There is a of course people from walnut tree in the garden. Zekeriyaköy and Bahçeköy The name of the café are our loyal customers. Members of the Açı Pulse team visit Ceviz Cafe in Bahçeköy. comes from that tree. There is the [Forestry Göktürk and Etiler. “mantı” and caterpillar- AP: Do you have a Department] close to here. AP: We saw a “Ceviz Café” shaped cookies are very selection of vegetarian Students and teachers from in Edirne, is it related to popular. meals? the faculty come here a lot. this one? AP: How many days a MC: We don’t serve And of course Açı School’s MC : No, it’s not related to week is Ceviz open? vegetarian food but we do teachers. us. MC: Ceviz is open every not use food additives AP: Do you have any other AP: What is your special day from 8 o’clock in the either. branches? recipe? morning to 9 o’clock in the AP: When was Ceviz MC : Yes, we have two MC: We do not really have evening. founded? other branches. They are in a special recipe but our Wake-Up Café opens to middle school students Açı Pulse Staff decided 3 months ago. AP: How do you decide helpers. Reporters from Açı Pulse AP: Will you expand the on what to sell that week? AP: Whose idea was it to interviewed with Grade 7 café? AB: They talk it over and open up the café in the first student Affan Belgü, who is AB: They [are profitable, Selin Esin decides every place? responsible for the Wake- so] they could consider it. Wednesday what [we] AB: It was the students’ Up Café on Açı Schools’ AP: Where does the should sell. choice to open up a cafe Bahçeköy Campus. money the café makes go? AP: What type of food and the Principal accepted Açı Pulse Students: Why AB: The money goes to a does the café serve? their request. is the name of the cafe hospital for kids with AB: They serve healthy AP: Who was this café Wake-Up Café? cancer. snacks for students, not open to before? Affan Belgü: So people AP: Who opened the Café junk food. AB: Only the high can drink coffee there and in the first place, and AP: How did you get schoolers were able to use wake up. when? involved in this? Who is in the cafe until this year. AP: Is this project made AB: The café was opened charge of the café? From this year on it is open by the high school? three years ago by two Açı AB: I am in charge of the to middle schoolers as well. AB: Yes, it is. They students. café but I have many 5 Organic foods thrive at İstinye Park bazaar Açı Pulse Staff on the European side. One Açı Pulse reporters located in Bakırköy Airport traveled to İstinye Park to Outlet Center, and the interview the people other one located in working at the Organic Levent Kanyon Shopping Food Bazaar. Centre. There are three Q: Why are organic markets available on Finding media treasures fruits and vegetables more Saturdays, in Feriköy, expensive than non- Beylikdüzü and at D&R İstinye Park organic ones? Zeytinburnu. There are Açı Pulse Staff sellers at the moment. I’ll A: Organic foods are two bazaars on Sunday. At İstinye Park, a group give you names of the first grown without pesticides, They are in Kartal and of Açı Pulse reporters were three of them. They are: chemical fertilizers or Mecidiyekoy (Profilo). able to interview the It’s Not How Good You Are, genetically altered seeds. It Q: Is the organic food people working in the It’s How Good You Want to takes a few years to bazaar temporary or popular D&R store. The Be by Paul Arden; The prepare soil to produce permanent? staff were really kind and Decision Book: Fifty Models high-quality organic crops. A: Our organic food friendly. They answered all for Strategic Thinking by This is where most of the bazaar is permanent, our questions although Roman Tschappeler; and extra cost comes from, unlike the others. they were super busy. lastly Wreck This Journal: plus composting and Q: When was the AP: When and where To Create is to Destroy by natural pesticides are organic food bazaar did D&R open its first Keri Smith. store? AP: What does D&R more expensive than founded? Are you satisfied D&R: D&R was founded stand for? chemical fertilizers. That’s with the result? in November 1996 and D&R: It’s an abbrevation why organic fruits and A: We opened the opened up its first store in for Doğan and Raks Group, vegetables are more organic food bazaar in Erenköy in May 1997. who are the owners. expensive. 2007. We are very satisfied AP: Do you have any AP: How many books do Q: Where do you get with the results since then. branches in foreign you sell per week? your vegetables and fruits? Q: Is it possible to grow countries? D&R: It’s hard to tell the A: We buy the organic food in gardens? D&R: We do not have amount of books we sell vegetables and fruits from A: As I said before, if you any branches in foreign because it changes from a wholesale market hall do not use any pesticides, countries at the moment. week to week. in Bayrampaşa. chemical fertilizers or AP: What are your best- AP: How many D&Rs are Q: Are there other genetically altered seeds, it selling items? there in Turkey? organic food bazaars in is possible for you to grow D&R: Our best-selling D&R: There are 148 Istanbul? organic food in your items are books, mostly D&Rs in 26 cities in Turkey.