Author name: Elvin Törek

Elvin Törek is a linguist and intercultural communication specialist with over 12 years of fieldwork documenting Turkish oral traditions across Anatolia, the Balkans, and Central Asia. Trained at Boğaziçi University and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, she holds a PhD focused on pragmatic variation in Turkish greeting rituals. She has designed greeting-curricula for diplomats and NGOs and authored the acclaimed field guide 'Threshold Words: Greetings as Cultural Entry Points in Turkish Societies'.