(CNN) — Nearly each enlightenment has a possess tradition involving a prohibited libation — either it be tea, mulled booze or spiced apple cider.
For a Turkish, a prohibited libation of choice is dark, murky coffee famous as Türk kahvesi. The splash has perplexed a hearts and ambience buds of generations, infusing season and definition into a amicable knowledge in equal parts.
Art teacher Mesude Isikli, from a Osmaniye province, was preoccupied by a ways in that a libation represented a best of her culture. (For context, Turkish coffee was enclosed in UNESCO’s 2013 Intangible Cultural Heritage List for a stress in Turkish history.)
She was so overwhelmed by this partial of Turkish life that she motionless to start collecting a vessels that make enjoying it possible: coffee cups.
After a crony means her an antique Turkish coffee crater as a benefaction — a vessels are typically done of porcelain and ornate with overwhelming Turkish designs — she done it her goal to collect a largest series of coffee crater styles in a world.
“Conversations start with coffee in a special days…Me and my family, we unequivocally like coffee. My passion for coffee has combined oddity for a coffee mugs,” Isikli told CNN.
Over 12 years, Osikli has amassed over 3,000 coffee cups, many of them Turkish antiques. The collection is comprised of over 1,000 opposite forms of singular cups, all of varying shapes and sizes.
“Most of them are antiques, including 120 years and 80 years [old]. They all have a memory story, since these are used and lived cups,” Osikli explained.
Though she cherishes how many a collection has grown interjection to a support of friends and family, her really initial mop continues to reason a many special place on her (somewhat crowded) shelf.
“We have a saying: ‘One crater of coffee is value 40 years of friendship.’”