Hello!  Merhaba! Regarding the “köfte”, Mr. Tuğrul Şavkay continues, “As devotees of meat cooked with a sauce of vegetables, particularly tomatoes, it is inevitable that the Turks should have invented a köfte of this sort (salçalı köfte), prepared either in large oven trays or in sahans.  Green chili peppers and tomatoes are essential ingredients of this [...]...