Türkiye Part 3 : (a little) Trivial Facts
One trivial fact about Turkey is that, as you all may already know, Turkey is a country which majority of the population is Muslim, but instead of calling Turkey as an Islamic country, I’d much prefer calling this country as liberal. The fashion here pretty much reflects it all. Many people wear hijab and Muslim clothes and all but there are even more people who go everywhere like they’re going to a night party or even marathon competition when they go to school. Not that I hate it though. I like this fact because if I don’t feel like wearing something nice or matching, no one would really stare at me at judge me. Even if you wore something which you consider very hideous, no one would really pay attention unless you drove a jeep on the pavement while wearing those stuffs. And I’m not even kidding.
There is a huge mosque near my campus which I visited to pray after taking the placement test, and for a girl who comes from Indonesia, I found it really interesting. The mosque is four or five times bigger than the one that my neighborhood had back in Indonesia but… the place where we can have wudhu (washing up your exposed body parts before doing the prayer) is not directly proportional with the size of the mosque itself. It’s so small, and rather looks like a normal toilet, and to make it even weirder, it is so hidden as if the architect of the mosque didn’t want people to have wudhu before praying. I nearly thought that there’s no such place to wash up after 30 minutes of searching and finding nothing. Well thankfully I found it though.
