İHSAN KARAYAZI

İhsan Karayazı is a social entrepreneur focusing on sustainable tourism development, cross-border cooperation, and conflict transformation. He was an Atlas Corps fellow in HasNa, Inc., a Washington D.C.-based non-profit organisation, and worked at various capacities with national and international civil society organizations promoting democratisation and sustainable development. He served as the country representative of CBDN (Caucasus Business and Development Network) between 2011 and 2016. Most recently, Karayazı co-organised the ‘Haven’t We Shared Much Salt and Bread?’ project in which conflict transformation, food, gender, and perspective on building peace intersect. He currently lives and works between Boston and Turkey as a freelance consultant.

As if playing with playdough…

Since the main ingredient is dough, everyone could put their own touch on hangel as if playing with playdough. The dough could be made thinner or thicker, filled or empty; it was topped with all kinds of ingredients; and based on the geographical conditions of the people making it, together with their cultural backgrounds, the dish took on different names and local flavours.

İHSAN KARAYAZI