Barber

Forget diplomats, academics and foreign correspondents! In Turkey, it is the barbers and the cab drivers who always know what to do in international relations.

The most vintage barber shop in Greece is in Thessaloniki and its owner, Giannis, promises to offer to his clients an excellent barber shop experience.

The grim rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has had at least one positive side for Turkish barbers, as hirsute men have begun to forego their fashionable long beards amid concern about being associated with the jihadi group, according to Manisa Chamber of Barbers and Hairdressers head Ali Batu.