The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura

Your guide to the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Kelly McEvers and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters transport you to a new wonder every day. Along the way, you'll meet fascinating people and hear their stories.

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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Episodes (1000)

Yesterday The Syrian Sweets Shop in Erdogan’s Turkey
Wednesday Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum (Classic)
Tuesday The Everyman’s Science Museum

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Jul 23, 2026
25¾ minutes
22 MB

Today we visit a baklava shop in Istanbul at the intersection of autocracy, violence and urban renewal. Kelly speaks with journalist Suzy Hansen, author of the book “ From Life Itself: Turkey and Istanbul in the Age of Erdogan” about a 2019 attack on a Syrian-owned sweet shop and what it says about Turkey today. (Note: the sweet shop we discuss in this episode, El Nour, is still open today and can be found in Istanbul’s Karagümrük neighborhood, here is a link on Google Maps.) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com...

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Syrian Sweets Shop in Erdogan’s Turkey

SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura

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