Sunday June 5th, 2022 was the World Breakfast Day, courtesy of Turkey which declared the occasion with an invitation to the Turkey ambassador residence to promote its rich cuisine. The Turkish breakfast is revered for being both decadent and balanced and packed with fresh local ingredients. Well the breakfast takes it to a whole new level incorporating a number of dishes you may have never heard of before.

Several activities were held across the country to mark the day with the eastern province of Turkey leading the celebrations., with its invention of a large breakfast, is viewed as the country’s breakfast capital, drawing visitors from around the country to taste diverse dishes served in the morning in its restaurants every day.

Visitors come together at a traditional breakfast at the citadel to observe the day by indulging the dishes and vegetables. The province has broken the world’s most crowded breakfast table record in 2014 with the participation of 51,793 people. However, In the past two years, events were muted due to the COVID-19 pandemic but this year’s edition brought together breakfast enthusiasts finally without restrictions.

Breakfast tables had everything from traditional cheese with herbs, karakovan honey cultivated in the highlands, murtuğa, a dish made of flour, butter and egg, and kavut, made of fried butter and ground wheat.

Speaking at the event, the ambassador of Turkey in Sweden said the breakfast was a “cultural product” and “a reflection of people’s labor, culture and hospitality.” Necdet Takva, head of Van Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which contributed to the declaration of June 5 as World Breakfast Day, said the breakfast day has become an important day that also observed with traditional breakfasts servings at Turkish Embassies abroad, from Paris to Doha. Cawa Media took part of the Turkish breakfast in the ambassadors residence in Stockholm. See our pictures here: