#aph istanbul

[whatever-whatsoever]

City of Rome and Istanbul..

Ngl AI is a miracle.

[mari8326]

when march has come but spring hasn't come yet

[itstokkii]

All these anons just make me want to talk about Turkey more. What are your favorite Turkey headcanons? Personally I love to think that Sadik writes poetry in his spare time, and is very, very good at it.

As someone who ships Turkfra because of how fascinating the history between France and the Ottoman Empire is (Franco-Ottoman alliance) I like to think that they would both really bond over each other’s rich poetry culture. Not to mention their rich cuisines. Maybe they cook together in the evenings, or take turns cooking and surprising each other with elaborate dinners.

Youre so right

aph turkey hcs

- physically he's around 180cm, perhaps he had visible muscles during the ottoman empire period but he's mellowed out now and let a little softness take over his form. He put on a little bit of weight bc he's a sweet tooth but it fluctuates from time to time.

- definitely keeps cat treats in his pocket for the stray cats of istanbul!! and when he fishes he leaves a portion for the cats to eat!

- while he is a cat person and owns cats(one of them is named tombili 🥺), he also owns a few dogs too! he probably gets along with germany on that part(maybe korea? though korea owns the cute fluffy tiny dogs that feel the need to eat your face off when it makes eye contact with you).

- is a man of the kitchen. aside from cooking the most banger meals, he dabbles in tweaking recipes or creating new ones altogether! ive seen enough turkish dessert accounts on instagram to know he'd make a bomber cake with coconut shavings, or a pretty good custard.

- the coconut shavings are important btw they're like on every single homemade turkish chocolate cake for some reason??(source: baby tokki grew up with a lot of turkish family friends)

- sorry i have to do this but...he has mediocre drip 🥲 sometimes he dresses like your average old man or middle aged dad and then sometimes it's so obvious that he's trying to dress like the youngsters.. he def has his knockoff Adidas tracksuits and they always come in clutch

- he's not an old man however. he was born as one of the many tribes running around in the seljuk era before he eventually became the ottoman empire. physically...around his mid 20s to early 30s?

- and cuz he has turkish dad vibes...he regularly watches soccer games. like he lays down on the couch elbow propped up eating pistachios as he watches soccer in a Galatasaray shirt(actually turkish fans of hetalia pls tell me who hed be a fan of bc I don't regularly watch turkish soccer)

- regularly plays volleyball!

- life of the party at weddings tbh, especially those rural ones

- very hospitable! he'll arrange a table full of treats and black tea for you and won't take no for an answer as he brags about how hospitable he is.

- when you're at his house DO NOT EVER suggest getting takeout. he will stare at you with a >:0 face

- WILL spill the tea over tea. man's got enough connections to tell you abt who's cheating on who etc. while he has his whole spread of treats and black tea out he'll keep you up on everything. when he goes "Ok so basically" that's when you brace yourself because OH BOY is someone in a secret relationship with someone else and that person you'd always assumed was super shy actually sprinkled salt on their ex's backyard

- the ac in his istanbul apartment keeps breaking(good luck with that man 😔)

- that's why in the summer he spends a big chunk of his paycheck on icecream. bro makes sure to always have icecream stocked on him at all times(just like me fr !!). he'd even eat it in the winter he loves it that much.

- also at the same time he drinks hot tea in the 40-50 degree summer as well, another win for the turkuzbek fans !

- big into architecture, and back in the day it was custom to write a poem to commemorate a new building. he definitely wrote a few but spent forever thinking about how to write it and pissed a lot of people off because they were waiting for the poem lol

- i actually really like fraturk's dynamic! because theyve got a lot of history together, it would be terrible to ignore. i think they have definitely gotten together during the Franco-Ottoman alliance lol.

- one time the french wanted to flex on austria × spain by going "oh yeah??? well we got turkey!!" and commissioned a huge super ornate crown to gift to suleiman the great. see the funny part about this is um. the turks didn't wear crowns. so suleiman never wore it lol

turkey, holding the crown: uhmmmm... wall decoration I guess?? this is awkward

- the name "turquoise" comes from the French "turkish" to describe the gem. i guess that's a fraturk win??? since we all associate that color with turkey now

- they'd probably try to one up each other with the dinners they cook! (can france handle lahmacun??? tune in later today at 11pm to find out !!)

- coffee guy x tea guy with the whole parisian coffee culture and turkish tea culture thing. (except I mean. turkish coffee also exists so)

- I wanna think france tries to help turkey with his drip situation but. turkey always got that inner middle aged dad in him it's not going anywhere

- bulgaria likes going to turkeys place cuz the stuff there is dirt cheap ~~~~!!! rip the lira you would have loved economic stability

- speaking of bulgaria, bulgaria greece and turkey argue a lot over who invented yogurt. turkey thinks he's got a stake in it because of the etymology of yogurt(yoğurtmak), but like the bacteria to make yogurt is called lactobacillius bulgaricus, but everyone thinks of greek yogurt...yeah you can see why they're all arguing

- speaking of arguing he's ratioed saudi a couple times on twitter lol

- he also posts those ironic turk/turan copy pastas as well

- egypt kinda doesn't like him. during the ottoman empire turkey launched egypt to suppress arab revolts like a pokemon.

*putting down fingers* "the greeks don't like us, egypt doesn't like us, saudi definitely doesn't like us....bulgaria likes us cuz we're a cheap travel destination for them..." - my turkish business teacher in highschool, 2023

- gets along well with korea(uhoh BIAS incoming !!!) due to their history beginning from the korean war. the turkish brigade was the only military unit that built a school for korean orphans. there's a story of a soldier taking care of a korean orphan, but he wasn't able to adopt her. they were separated for years after that until one day they reunited. they'd also suffered the third most losses in the war. that's why we call turkey our "older brother country."

- there's even a turkish culture center in seoul(which baby tokki went to a lot lol). recently turkish kaymak has been trending since one of the top korean celebrity chefs paik joongwon visited turkey a while back to try food. people have been traveling to turkey to go to the exact stores and try those foods as well. there's a lot of kebab shops in korea! the turkish presence in korea was the starting point to accommodate muslims in korea as well.

- all of this to say korea and turkey have a mutual admiration and korea definitely calls turkey oppa or hyung. korea also tries to get him to change his drip but NOTHJNG CAN DEFEAT THE STEADFAST TURKISH MIDDLE AGED MAN RAAAH 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

- I've said it before I'll say it again: turkey cannot hold a normal conversation with mongolia because he'll always go "OH MY FELLOW NOMAD STEPPE ALTAIC BROTHER HOW ARE YOU DOING!!!" what???

- same with the central asians tbh given their nomadic history as well. he was the first nation to recognize all of their indepences fom russia. he gets along with turkmenistan a lot because they're the closest languages to each other(both in oghuz family) and a lot of turkmens go to turkey to study at their universities! the governments quite stagnant with their policies however, so turkey's having a hard time convincing her to join the turkic council as a full time member. they give me a gojo and megumi vibe for some reason lol

- kazakhstan 🤝 turkey: both having the asian/european identity crisis

- in terms of first meetings, the kazakh khanate and ottoman empire first established diplomatic relations in 1713, and along with uzbekistan, tried to seek turkey's help in the face of an expanding russian empire.

- nowadays, turkey and kazakhstan are the ones to both try to stir up that regional/turkic unity among the central asians. they've gained some small wins along the way lol. in fact, turkey, kazakhstan, and kyrgyzstan were the founding members of the turkic council! kazakhstan admires all that turkey's doing for them but sometimes thinks he's too cocky. actually all the central asians think he's cocky to certain extents lol

- bro gets along a little better with hungary now and that could be because of the whole "huns=turkic?" debate resurfacing in hungary which is why they somehow landed a spot in the turkic council as well???

uzb kaz kyrg turk azer @ hungary: white woman jumpscare,

- he and hungary regularly bother prussia whenever they're in germany lol

- scraps w the netherlands bc tulips come from him!!! not from Licorice Man!!!!!

- fluctuating relationship with iran over the years

- was a fanboy of iran during the seljuk empire until she joined the khwarazmian empire(uzb's mom lol) and then he hated her

- also close with: azerbaijan(who may or may not be his number one fanboy), japan

Here's everything I could squeeze out of my brain lol hope you like it!!

a good chunk of these hcs are by @peonycats and @hetalia-fannn btw!! sorry for not initially crediting u guys i forgot 😭

[hetaliaturkishcities]

Hetalia Istanbul (oc) aesthetic

"Fell for these ocean eyes"

[papa-turk-tells]

Can you draw Ankara and Istanbul again please?

They are here! 

And yes, Ankara is much more older than Istanbul ( Constantinople, Konstantiniyye) and Turkey , because he was a child in the ancient times (Even named ‘’Angora’’) 

 *Draws that after one century well…Sorry tho*

[mavka-chan]

Новый арт с новым моим ником :>

[breitzbachbea]

"And you caused it" - Some AU TurGre musings

"Don't make my kids unhappy for something that isn't there," Natasa said.

"Hm?" Herakles looked up from his teacup, but his look was still absent and glazed over.

"You know what I'm talking about," she said. With a glance, she brushed her hand across his hair. It barely touched him, the motion somewhere between a slap and a pat. "Don't make yourself unhappy, either, Ira." Now she stopped putting away the dishes and looked at him. "Not for something that isn't there anymore."

He stared at her. Her words seemed muffled and he hoped it'd come across as oblivious. He knew what she meant though. And she knew it, too.

"He's not there anymore," Natasa said. "Neither of you are. You can't go back, Iraklis. You're not the youngin you used to be and he won't come back. You grew up. It's for the better, really." She put the cloth down and gently laid her hand at his temples to kiss him on the forehead.

She pulled back and held his gaze for surprisingly long. Finally, as he stared at her, eyes empty and mouth open, stare turning more distraught by the second, the motherly understanding in her eyes finally broke.

"I know it hurts," she said. "I know you both hurt, Ira, but you can't change it. It won't ever be like it used to be."

"So what?" he whispered. "What else do you want me to do? There's never been another place for me in this world but by his side." He knew this would never leave the kitchen table, because he could tell Natasa but he could never utter it out loud to Sadık.

A fact that only proved her point.

"Ira. That place's gone and you wouldn't fit there anymore. Neither would he. He's gone, too. Keep him in your heart, don't see him in the man he's now." She put her arms around his head and pressed it to her chest. "I know it's not fair to be asked to leave the only home you've ever known. But, you know, you've got to remove the rabble first if you want to rebuild something."

[j-crna-zvijezda]

APH/HWS Turkey aesthetic! Did you recognise the song that Sadık is singing? 🎶

(Oof, old aesthetic, again [-J⭐️])

Credits to:

- @/transparentalia for the transparent

- @/fuckyeahaphcosplay for Turkey cosplay

[authorkahramanbatuk]

Şu yayına göz atın… "THE TRACES LEFT BY THE GREAT ISKENDER IN ANATOLIA AND THE GRANICOS WAR !".

[telltalia]

Hmmm I'll add onto this more sometime including some more historic stuff when I study it in class (and feel free to send in some of your own) but for now...

Sadık Adnan (Aph Turkey) Headcanons

He absolutely loves his coffee and will drink it whenever he needs to stay up, but he actually drinks tea more often

He has suuuuch a sweet tooth

And he prides himself in his desserts

Yogurt 

Did you know greek yogurt is actually turkish???

at least, if you ask him

He can tell you your future with coffee

Super competitive and a showoff

Nosy, but he usually means well

He’s really caught up on fashion and style, but often just dresses really simply and cozy

He’s bad with money. He'll literally end up buying things that are extra nice even if he doesn't need them.

He’s super friendly and will have open conversations with strangers/tourists

Including telling them their future and the history of his nation

He has zero shame and would do practically anything to prove a point or one-up someone

You can dare him to do almost anything, but he also comes up with some of the best dares too, so watch out.

You can bet he has a bunch of good luck charms and stuff like that

Wears a charm bracelet

Although his scruff and hair makes him look a bit messy, he takes care of himself and has big self care/spa days quite often

Like, this man is  c l e a n.

Even though he's a hairy turk

He has a bunch of bathhouses/saunas all over the country

Loves dancing

And Turkish Oil Wrestling

While he’s proud of the fact that he was once an empire that obviously comes with some guilt about the things he’s caused.

Although he certainly isn't as devout as he was historically (being a secular nation) and he now respects different faiths than his own, his religion is still a huge part of his culture and life and he'll still pray or go to mosques when he feels he needs to.

Uhhhh "Istanbul (not Constantinople)"

Mmmm what a bop

He'll break out in singing this (uhh especially around greece)

[fataliitea]

APH Rare pair week Day 4 - History

Pairing: TurkArm (Turkey x Armenia OC)

Okay so this one is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, as these two would be at each other’s throats more often that Turkey is with Greece. But either way, they had something of history between them that wasn’t all bad.

Like this, for instance, which is supposed to take place in the 1850s, when Armenia actually played a crucial part in the Ottoman’s history (mostly that there was a shit ton of Armenians in Istanbul at the time). Armenia’s outfit is inspired by two different ones I found and liked so I’m sticking with them.

If you’d like to know more about my OC Armenia, please feel free to check out her tag on my blog!

[whatever-whatsoever]

They ARE something ♡

[hetare-hetalia]

Wtf is aph Turkey's fez? I am a Turk girl and we aren't wearing fez in here or riding camels, we aren't an arab country!

Whoa! Whoa there! Calm down a little bit! Please!

In terms of APH Turkey’s design, I can’t say much, because I’m not Turk. But, from what I know, APH Turkey was never seen riding camels at all in either the manga or anime. Himaruya was careful not to portray him that way. As for the fez he wears, I don’t know what caused Himaruya to make that part of his design. Even though he has visited Istanbul. But I guess that doesn’t matter? I don’t know.

[mavka-chan]

╰(⸝⸝⸝´꒳`⸝⸝⸝)╯

[breitzbachbea]

Ask game for hws turkey!👀✨

Thank you two, amber and @needcake!

Ah yes, that old Turkish chestnut.

Send me a character and I'll give you a list

Favourite thing about them: I honestly love how intense he is. He's so eager and full of energy and devotion. It's fun to write people who love stuff, you know? As well as hate. Any strong emotion can be cathartic and I see myself in intense people (as strange as that sounds).

Least favourite thing about them: Oof, good question, I try not to think as much in terms of "good and bad" but interesting. I do think he can be quite an entitled prick at times, too, which is not a trait I vibe with in him.

Favorite line: Sad that my Hetalia Mangas aren't at hand, but I also wouldn't know if anything about his canon appearance sticks out. However, do have this line of dialogue from sadlygrove's İstanbul, which is seared into my brain (like many lines from sadlygrove's fics):

[Context: Greece asks: "Do you think there's anyone as pathetic as us?"]

"I ain't ever asked. We've had seven hundred years to love and fight one another. 's too much."

BrOTP: Oh, good question. Obviously I'd die for him and Dilan in my "Like Father Like Son" AU, but I am less well-versed in canon. I think he, Greece and Egypt also make a great friend trio.

OTP: My dear, my buddy, my pal, I would not have aph Turkey brainrot if it wasn't for TurGre. Listen. Listen. I'd lay my life down for him and Herakles, I will sip their tragedy up and yearn for a happy ending I know may be impossible until they lay my cold dead body into the ground. Reading İstanbul made me realize 4 years of emotional baggage I had never taken the time to deal with & I swear I've had a soulmelt with the Turk in that moment. I just ... I just love TurGre so much, in all of its complicated colours.

NOTP: I don't really have a nOTP with him, but I'll be real - I only care about him and Japan in a platonic manner. Zero interest in that ship, to be honest.

Random headcanon: Trying to think one of my own here ... Oh! He loves terrible Turkish Pop Music. Like, not even the iconic and overplayed stuff, he is into whatever the Turkish pop equivalent of Schlager is. Bottom of the barrel for anyone who isn't drunk/half-deaf, but he just thinks it's the most fun in the world. Bit of a guilty pleasure, though, he doesn't show it in front of other nations.

Unpopular Opinion: I don't even know what constitutes popular opinion. He's not a himbo. He's brash, he's loud, he's impulsive but he's not dumb. Turkey has an immensely sophisticated history and its people are very clever in every day life. He's not stupid, he's just lacking a bit in the "getting along with other people" department at times.

Song I associate with them: I've recently been thinking a bit about Empires/How this Imperial attitude carries over into my "Like Father Like Son" AU, so I've been thinking of him (& others) while listening to "Wolves" by Sam Tinnesz ft. Silverberg.

In the context of TurGre, my favourite song from Turkey's perspective is My Heart by Twin Wild. It captures him so perfectly, in his intensity and devotion; the lust he has for life.

Favorite picture of them: Toughie! I like most of the canon and fanart I see of him, but here's a top 3

1. This official art from the latest Hetalia volume. As soon as this thing is out in Germany and I get my hands on it, I will do nothing but stare all damn day at this page. Look at how nice and handsome and friendly and yet still rogueish he looks. I need to kiss him on the mouth.

2. This commission I got by @/captkirkland. I may be biased because he is also surrounded by his found family from my "Like Father Like Son" AU here, but I simply love how Turkish he looks.

3. This portrait my friend C0FFINATED over at twitter did of him two years ago. It should be illegal to be this beautiful. The nose. The eyes. The eyebrows. Such a strong face.

[papa-turk-tells]

My two cities : İstanbul and Ankara!

Istanbul and formerly Constantinople is definately a diva. And she always been like that through centuries. Well I cant blame her, she always been the centre of attention (Can’t even tell how Byzantine and I battled over her!) and it shaped her personality strongly. She is cheerful, garish and elegant. Loves to shine with the sand of time!

But my capital boi Ankara is monstrously different than her! First of all, he is the calm guy of Anatolia. (It means he met with King Midas when he was a little child). He always seemed like paper work guy because everything about politics, law and order organized from Ankara. But he holds an important duty; he is the heart of mine. Istanbul was the capital of my Ottoman Empire period over 600 years. But when it came to critical war years of WW1 and ensuing years, Atatürk switched the Capital City position to him for being much more strategical. (Also he triggers when the people think Istanbul is the Capital of me nowadays but gave them chance boi, it been centuries!) (Also he hides a romantic poet and splendid literature skills in that sulky face.)