(To be updated as I find accessible, shareable resources)
Many of my resources are academic, accessed through my university. Unfortunately I can’t share them here, as this breaches the T&Cs a.k.a it would be pirating, despite these articles being my primary sources. So I’ve to look for alternatives.

• Coffee
  Wiki | History
• Dondurma
  Wiki | My favourite video of the dondurma man
• Caravanserais
• The intellectual legacy of Islamic scholars
  The Golden Age of Islam | The history of the madrasah | Turkish academia |
• The Cultural History of Turkey, from Roman to Greek to Byzantine to Ottoman to Republic
• Women in Islam (academics, scholars, businesswomen, poets, politicians)
• The difference between Ottoman Turkish vs Modern Turkish (the language)
• The Languages of the Ottoman Empire
  (Zeynel is an educated man, so he knows Ottoman Turkish, normal Turkish, Persian, Arabic and Ladino (Ladino being his paternal family’s native tongue))
• The diverse population of Istanbul