In some days I wıll go to prague to meet there with lena and go on to bavaria to spent christmas with my family. As flights are too expensive and hitchhiking is no fun at this time of the year, I checked for busses, also because I never tried thıs way of traveling. I checked the ınternet and the offers at istanbul esenler büyük otogarı, not fındıng anything. therefore İ followed the tip, that there is said to be other busses from aksaray. what I found was emniyet otogarı, whıch also didn`t have any offer for me, but is faszinating and therefore worth to describe:

just next to the shopping area in aksaray, a place were mainly russian fashion industry is selling, there is a site, maybe as big as a football field. from there busses and cargo lines are going to places like rumania, bulgaria, kosovo, ukrain, russia, central asia, gorgia, azerbaidjan, (not to arminia), middle east …
the cargo lines are trucks and people come and bring there parcels. it seems, that people come to istanbul to shop and use this place for transporting themselves and the goods they buy as low-scale resellers. A wonderfull place to see, what istanbul is a business center for. I really would like to catch a bus to alma ata from there or maybe tblisi. lets see what the next summer brings.
anyway, meanwhile i found a connection from istanbul to prague by katev tourism, but İ have no idea about the prize and where to book and so on. hm, let`s see ….