Turkish tea question

I won't be much help, but this is what I know as far as direct word translations:

çay = Tea or Stream turist = Tourist, Sightseer çiçeği = Flower, Blossom, Bloom altinbas = Gold, Gold Coin (comes from the word altin)

All these are brands of loose tea marketed by the Turkish state tea organisation Caykur see

Caykur has many brands but their tea blending is suspect. When in Turkey try Deren Brand tea for a better quality (I can boast this as their consultant since 2004). Around 80% of Turkey's annual production of 180,000 tonnes of tea is manufactured by Caykur who relinquished their monopoly in 1985 - I worked then in Turkey for four tea seasons specifying, building, commissioning and optimizing the first privately built tea factory for Lipton up on the Black Sea coast and was caught in the fallout from Chernobyl in April 2006. Apart from our tea samples having to be disposed of as "low grade radioactive waste" when we brought them back to England, we suffered no ill effects though the tea reached 48,000 bequerels per kg (the EU limit was 500). Now the tea is well below the limit and even below that of teas from volcanic soil areas like Kenya.

Nigel at Teacraft