The province of Rize, in northeastern Türkiye, has long been known as the country’s tea capital. Plantations cling to steep ...

Mehmet Gürkan, the Chair of Fındıklı Organic Fruit Producers’ Union, has spoken to bianet about the problems of tea producers in the Black Sea region of Turkey, especially amid novel coronavirus ...

Atop a terrifyingly steep mountain in northeastern Turkey, the village of Haremtepe resembles an island surrounded by a vast ocean of green: verdant, bushy rows of tea plantations continue as far as ...

Türkiye is a major tea producer globally. Tea is an integral part of the Turkish tradition. Rize tea, a form of black tea, is especially famous and comes from the Rize province bordering the Black Sea ...