title: The Turkish Tales Of Nasrettin Hoca
author: Zeki Findikoglu
description: ZEKI FINDIKOGLU is from the village of Boyalica, Iznik in Turkey. During his early years he lived in almost every region of Anatolia and learned about regional Turkish culture and early Anatolian civilizations. In 1970, he graduated from the Fine Arts Academy of Istanbul earning an M.F.A. in painting and printmaking. In 1973, he moved to USA, attended George Washington University, and earned an M.F.A in design and visual communications. Since 1979, he has been a professor and department chairman at the University of the District of Columbia, Trinity University and Montgomery College. As a professional artist he has exhibited internationally. His current studio is in the Torpedo Factory Art center in Alexandria, VA. Presently, he splits his time between his two residences in Istanbul and Washington, DC.
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  # The Turkish Jester
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Nasreddin Hoca, Translated by George Borrow
  
  
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      The Turkish Jester
  
  
  or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Transcribed from the 1924 Norwich edition, Vol. 16, Miscellanies, by
  
  
  David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
  
  
  
  
  
  THE TURKISH JESTER; OR, THE PLEASANTRIES OF COGIA NASR EDDIN EFENDI.
  
  
  TRANSLATED FROM THE TURKISH BY GEORGE BORROW.
  
  
  IPSWICH: W. WEBBER, DIAL LANE, 1884.
  
  
  
  
  
  THE PLEASANTRIES OF COGIA NASR EDDIN EFENDI
  
  
  
  
  
  'A breeze, which pleasant stories bears,
  
  
  Relicks of long departed years.'
  
  
  The story goes, one of the stories of a hundred, that Cogia Nasr
  
  
  Eddin Efendi one day ascending into the pulpit to preach, said, 'O
  
  
  believers, do ye not know what I am going to say to you?' The
  
  
  congregation answered, 'Dear Cogia Efendi, we do not know.' Then said
  
  
  the Cogia, 'What shall I say to y