According to historians, coffee was brought to our country from Yemeni by merchants towards the middle of the fifteenth century. First of all, it found a place in the environment under the names of "coffee shop" or "coffee shop" in order to introduce and inform the public about the drinking and cooking of coffee.
Since it is expensive, cannot be found when you say "he", and it is not known how it is boiled and the foam consistency is not known, these places have started to become famous and to be included in the class of "work places with return" when the rich start to host their guests here.
Although it was banned by the sultans of the era due to occasional unsuitable reasons, it went through various phases in time, and it has continued its activities under the name of various names, after being forgiven and allowed to reopen.
Although it was subject to the obligation to put a book in the periods when it was named as Kıraathane, it was abandoned at various time phases and recently it has been called as "coffee house" or shortly "coffee" workplaces that serve citizens.
Coffeehouses, where spouse, friend, pensioner, employee leave, empty-handed people meet, people make appointments to meet each other, materials consisting of tables and chairs and all kinds of beverages (alcohol and prohibited by law) from morning to evening, (gambling and laws are allowed to be played. are commercial places where various time-consuming games are played.
In the towns and villages, residents who finish their other works such as barn, hayloft and vineyard-garden in the morning start to come to the coffee little by little. Since everybody knows each other in such small settlements, they first talk about politics if they find the opportunity on issues such as animal husbandry and farming, and after gossiping from the village and the villagers, they sit on a "row of stones", meaning the game of okey.
In cities, on the other hand, the times of sitting in the coffee house are longer than the villagers because there are no angare jobs such as "agriculture, livestock, orchards".
An empty-handed, on leave or retired citizen who leaves his house in the morning, after completing his work in the bazaar, takes the road to the coffee he was stuck on. If there are, they read the daily newspaper, and if there are some friends, four or five of whom come together, they talk about politics, economy, past and memories.
Most of the coffee customers in the cities have come to be gathered within their professions by going to places such as locals, army houses, teachers' houses, where they used to work or the associations they were a member of.
The group of friends who want to play a game after a while after the coffeehouse and those who come to such places and "not looking for the new, the drink", sit down after completing the square.
Even though the games are played with cards like threesomes, fries, chuckles, threw six and snatches, it seems that their shoes are going to be thrown out for now. In addition to these games, backgammon still maintains its feature even though it is an old thinking game. The person who plays backgammon must be very calm. When the game is played, the arrival of the broken scale dice and the opponent's continuous holding of the dice may cause the person with a weak nerve to be angry and broken.
It is the game of okey, in which those who play the most played games in the coffeehouses say to their wives "if anyone asked, they went to put stones" while leaving the house in the morning. Okeyin has two kinds of games called "incremental, one hundred and one". If everyone likes or cannot find a player to play what they want, they have to play what they do not like.