Turkish Mahjongg?

After dinner, our tour guide and I went to wash down our meatball dinner with ... no, not the anise-flavored raki (strong hard alcohol with the scent of anise), but instead the strong tea that I've bee talking about ... at 3,5 Lira, it's not cheap (about $2.50) but it's one way to pass the time away.

And if you have a group of four people, you can have an affordable wa of passing the hours with friends ... playing Turkish mahjongg, with the same sort of tiles and racks as mahjongg. Of coures the numbers are written normally and not in Chinese, but the meaning is still the same ...

Here's a description -- check out the photo. Is this mahjongg or what? And the name, okey, pronounced "okay."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okey