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[edit] Çayı or çay?

Is it ihlamur çayı or ihlamur çay? Badagnani 23:17, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

ıhlamur çayı --deniz 08:31, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Why does the article (and some other websites) say çay? Badagnani 08:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

çay is the nominative case of the tea, çayı is the accusative case. That means wenn used alone, it is çay only, wenn it is used in ıhlamur çayı, the word gets an ending in the Turkish language. CeeGee 09:01, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
wenn: german :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Denizz (talk • contribs) 12:30, 18 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Turkish Coffee

In what way is Turkish tea related to Turkish coffee? The plants are not related so you must describe the relationship. Is the custom of drinking them similar? What is the article trying to say? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.127.233.162 (talk) 08:37, 7 January 2007 (UTC).


[edit] total consumption

With a total tea volume of about 180,000 tonnes in 2004 according to Euromonitor International, Turkey has the second largest tea market in the world after India

it is not production but consumption

divide 180,000 tonnes by 72 million (population of Turkey), you get 2.5 kg/person

it might be production as well (if Turkey does not export tea) deniz 12:29, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand why the figures you added are so different than the worldwide ones that were there before (which I admit I don't know the source for). Doing a Web search, I cannot find anything about tea consumption in China, only production and export. But I find it hard to believe that China, with its enormous population (most of whom drink tea regularly) is not one of the top countries in gross tea consumption. Badagnani 19:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

the rest might be just exported/wasted or stats may be about black tea

  • source 1 (the one I used): [1]

I have another reference which seems more reliable

According to this one, tea production of Turkey is 205 500 tonnes which is 6.4% of the world total (3.2 million tonnes) in 2004.

  • source 2: [2]


Turkeys tea exports were $6894 thousands and imports were $6633 thousands (compare to China's $451mi export, $6877 thou import, so a net $444million export).

  • source 3: [3]

So, basically Turkish people consumed (or wasted) as much as tea as it produced. That first source seems more reliable to me now for Turkey's statistics.


The reference of the text that you are reinserting is

  • source 4: [[4]]


Kenya is the biggest exporter by weight and Sri Lanka by price

Those stats are more reliable as production rather than consumption levels

Then source 4 kinda agrees with source 2


Did you check the prices on the reports by Euromonitor International [5]. I hope GBP is not Great Britain pound.

deniz 22:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

User:Denizz, you seem to be more knowledgeable about me on this subject, so I will leave it from now to you to sort out these facts. You seem to have found some good sources but I still would like the gross production/consumption figures to be stated as well as the per capita ones. Badagnani 23:33, 18 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] ada çay

In Southern Turkey around Alanya I used to drink a herbal tea called "ada çay" which I believe translates as "island tea". It was bright yellow and aromatic with a flower head in it, and commonly served in tea houses as a quite popular item. Is this still drunk? --MichaelGG 06:22, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I think so.. In fact, I am pretty sure that it is still commonly drunk in the Aegean and Mediterranean provinces.. Baristarim 06:31, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
It looks as if adaçayı is Sage, specifically the genus Salvia--and that it's drunk primarily on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey (hence the name). Interesting that the flower is used--I've never heard of a culinary use of sage flowers. Or might it have been a flower from a different plant put in the sage tea? Adaçayı may be similar to Sideritis, another herbal tea from the eastern Mediterranean. See these searches for more websites about adaçayı: [6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Badagnani 06:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] citation problem

"Turkish tea is more popular than Turkish coffee among younger people in Turkey."How do we know this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.156.212.40 (talk) 14:46, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nation's founder???=

" The nation's founder, Atatürk, encouraged tea as an alternative to Turkish coffee, "... What does the nation's founder mean? Who is the founder of the english nation? Who is the founder of the german nation? Do the nations have founders? If so, how can we assess the title founder to somebody? If Atatürk is the founder of Turkish nation, then does not this refute the theory that Turkish people has a history longer than 2000 years? (probably a short circuit in a typical kemalist brain).... It should be "the founder of the republic", more objective and befitting the standarts of the encyclopedia. alpsinan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alpsinan (talk • contribs) 00:58, 18 February 2008 (UTC)