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Anatolian Friend Visiting DC
Mavi Boncuk | The Capitoline Museums in Rome has lent the statue “The Dying Gaul” to the National Gallery of Art until March 16, 2014. This is the only place it will be exhibited in the United States....
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Slow Fish Istanbul and Defne Koryürek
Mavi Boncuk |Defne Koryürek is the leader of Istanbul-based Slow Food Türkiye / Fikir Sahibi Damaklar and Defne Koryürek is the ultimate food insider. The fist edition of Slow Fish Istanbul was held...
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Aydan Özoğuz Makes it to the German federal Cabinet.
The first ever Turkish-origin minister to make it to the German federal Cabinet. Mavi Boncuk | Deputy leader of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD), Aydan Özoğuz[1], has been announced as the country’s...
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Mavi Boncuk |Strategic Water: Iraq and Security Planning in the Euphrates-Tigris BasinBy Frederick Lorenz[1] and Edward J. Erickson[2] Download PDFThis book not only identifies a threat that is not...
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Turkish Box Office 2013
Week 50 Turkish Box Office 2013 is almost there while Düğün Dernek (pictured) has a big surge. The top 8 ranking of Turkish films is further proof of the dominant position of national cinema in...
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Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Faruk Loğoğlu cited a recent Turkish media report and data that allege that Ankara exported 47 tons of arms to Syria, asserting that...
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Major Graft Probe
Major new development in Tukey that is bound to have very many repercussions. Mavi Boncuk | Police detained at least 49 people, including bureaucrats, well-known businessmen and the sons of three...
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Profile | Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen (1842 –1927)
A street is named after him in Ankara, Turkey, Wilhelm Thomsen Caddesi ("Vilhelm Thomsen Street"), on which the National Library of Turkey is located. This is apparently because Thomsen's deciphering...
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Futhark and Orkhon
Mavi Boncuk | Is it similar simply because these runes are the easiest form of letters to inscribe on a stone. Yet, there are three ancient rune stones in Sweden whose inscriptions make absolutely no...
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Book | Baksheesh: A Kati Hirschel Istanbul Mystery
Mavi Boncuk | Baksheesh: A Kati Hirschel [1]Istanbul Mystery by Esmahan Aykol, [2]translated from the Turkish by Ruth Whitehouse [3]- Fiction, MysteryKati Hirschel, in her 30s, is the proud owner of...
View ArticleFurther Consolidation in Turkish Electronics Retail
Mavi Boncuk | Consolidation in electronics retail. After Electro World, Darty goes to Bimeks. Best Buy recently went to Sabanci Holding's Teknosa, After these mergers there is only one foreign retailer...
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Word Origin | Boza, Booze
Mavi Boncuk |An alcoholic drink, weak (1% and below), made by grain fermentation. While widely discarded in public and used to deem s.o. redneck and ignorant, its superb qualities appeal to virtually...
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From Silver Fir of Turks to Yggdrasil
The Turkish roots (no pun intended) of Xmas tree.Mavi Boncuk | TR akçam ağacı, Hardy to -30°F EN Turkish fir (Abies bornmulleriana) a type of silver fir (Abies alba). Nardoqan or Nardugan[*] (Turkish:...
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My Homeland is Your "Homeland"
Mavi Boncuk |Caroline Anne "Carrie" Mathison, played by actress Claire Danes, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American television drama/thriller series Homeland on Showtime, created...
View ArticleArticle | EU Needs Turkey
Mavi Boncuk | THE E.U. NEEDS TURKEYBy Soner CagaptayNew York TimesFrance and Germany need to realize that a genuine path to European Union membership is Turkey's surest path to greater...
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Turkey is a Go for Rigo
In an interview about the IMF’s regular annual report of the Turkish economy, mission chief Ernesto Ramirez Rigo said that Turkey’s geographical location, young population, and vibrant private sector...
View ArticleArticle | CHP Leader Says He Would Consider Stepping Aside for Sarigul
WSJ interview goes as far as Huffington Blog.Mavi Boncuk |Turkey: CHP Leader Says He Would Consider Stepping Aside for SarigulPosted: 12/19/2013 10:44 amThe head of Turkey's leading opposition party...
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Jewish Kieras | Esperanza Malchi, Esther Handali and Kiera Esther
(pictured) A wealthy Jewish tradeswomen from Istanbul, painted by Jean Baptiste van Moor in 1719. Jewish women attained political power through their dealing with the harem women. The international...
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Turquerie
Sir Joshua Reynolds [1] - Portrait of Vertue, Mrs. Richard Paul Jodrell[2] in Turkish dress.Mavi Boncuk |Turquerie was the Orientalist fashion in Western Europe from the 16th to 18th centuries for...
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