Rick Steves’s friend from Turkey Melikha Seval has appeared on a few of Rick’s shows during the 1990’s and the early 2000’s, from when Small World Productions had produced his television show; and during the very beginning of when he founded his own production company and began to produce his own television show.

Rick has known Melikha since at least the 1980’s.

My paternal grandmother would tell Rick that she personally finds the Dervishes and their twirling ritual astonishing.

Photo below of Melikha and how Rick continues to look in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”.

Video of a Dervish and their twirling ritual.