" I got acquainted with the    
gleaming thinness of glass,    
during the years when our room    
was lightened by the flame from the    
kerosene lamp. The stained glass    
decorations of the medieval churches    
and of the 16th century Ottoman    
architecture, have contributed a visual    
pleasure to glass. And glass found a very    
different, plastic elegance and personality    
in the blue-and-white glass products.   
Glass becomes livelier by love and   
friendship in the goblets whitening   
with raki each evening."    
                                                                     MEHMET PESEN