Turkish coffee (see name and variants for other names) is coffee prepared by boiling finely powdered roast coffee beans in a pot (cezve), possibly with sugar, and serving it into a cup, where the dregs settle. The name describes the method of preparation, not the raw material; there is no special Turkish variety of the coffee bean. It is common throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus, and the Balkans, and in their expatriate communities and restaurants in the rest of the world.
Coffeehouse culture was highly developed in the former Ottoman world, and this is the dominant style of preparation. Coffee has its origins in Ethiopia and Yemen. By the late 15th and early 16th century, it had spread to Cairo and Mecca.
The Ottoman chronicler İbrahim Peçevi reports the opening of the first coffeehouse in Istanbul:
Until the year 962 (1554-55), in the High, God-Guarded city of Constantinople, as well as in Ottoman lands generally, coffee and coffeehouses did not exist. About that year, a fellow called Hâkem (Hakam) from Aleppo and a wag called Şems (Shams) from Damascus, came to the city: they each opened a large shop in the district called Tahtelkal’e, and began to purvey coffee.
Various legends involving its introduction at a “Kiva Han” in 1475 are reported on web sites, but with no documentation.
Coffee has affected Turkish culture so much that the Turkish word for breakfast, kahvaltı literally means “before coffee” (kahve means “coffee” and altı “under”). In recent times, Turkish coffee has become less popular than tea (which was grown locally, and could be bought without hard currency), instant coffee, and other modern styles of coffee. At the same time, it is served by international coffee chains such as Starbucks and Gloria Jean’s Coffees in their stores located in Turkey, although it remains as an option, not a promoted beverage.
In the Middle East, Turkish coffee until recently has been called simply ‘coffee’ in the local language.
In Turkey “kahve” was assumed to be Turkish coffee until instant coffee was introduced in the 1980s. Today, younger generations refer to it as Türk kahvesi (Turkish coffee).
The word for “coffeeshop” in Modern Standard Arabic is مقهى (maqha, literally meaning “place of coffee-ing”, plural , مقاهي maqahi(n)), but the more common term in colloquial Arabic is simply قهوة (qahwa), meaning “coffee” in much the same way as French uses café for both things.
In many languages, the term “Turkish” coffee has been replaced by the local variant name. For example in “Armenian Coffee” (Հայկական սուրճ haykakan surj), “Greek coffee” (ελληνικός καφές ellinikós kafés), and “Cypriot coffee” (κυπριακός καφές kypriakós kafés), or dropped altogether.[citation needed]. The words for “coffee” and “coffeeshop” remained unchanged in Greek as in the other Balkan languages, using the Ottoman Turkish forms kahve and kahvehane: Bulgarian кафе, кафене; Slavic Macedonian кафе, Serbian кафа, кафана; Croatian kava, kavana; Bosnian kahva, kafana; Slovenian kava, kavarna; Romanian cafea, cafenea; Greek καφές, καφενείο; Albanian kafe, kafene.
In the Arab world, “Turkish” coffee is the most common kind of coffee. It is called Arabic coffee (qahwa `arabiyah, قهوة ﻋﺮﺑﻴﺔ ) or Shāmi (Levantine) coffee, as the Turks learned this method of making coffee from the Arabs of the Bilad al-Sham. Western forms are also known and are often called “Nescafé” through brand genericization[citation needed]. Only occasionally will Arabs refer to Turkish coffee as being from their native country, so constructions such as “Egyptian coffee”, “Lebanese coffee”, “Iraqi coffee”, and the like are heard to draw a distinction in the flavor, preparation, or presentation of two different kinds of Turkish coffee; for instance, an Egyptian using the term qahwa Arabiyy as distinct from qahwa Masriy would be distinguishing the Levantine from the Egyptian style of Turkish coffee
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1. Dial *#06# to get the IMEI number and write it down
2. Dial *#272* IMEI #
3. A list will appear with some options
4. Choose an option* (for English choose ECT, France ABS)
5. Press OK
6. ….please wait a little…
7. Phone will stop, will do a hard reset and delete all, AND Enable the Android Market.
8. Have fun
* for now, far as I know, if you choose TUR, your market wont work, but you will have Turkish language