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Palazzo Corpi and the US Embassy Cover-up
Restorations at a historic building in central Istanbul, which was used by the U.S. as an embassy and consulate building for nearly a century, have unveiled a unique example of "censorship," after nude...
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Wanda de Gorkiewicz | Views of Istanbul and the Golden Horn
Mavi Boncuk |From the Club de Constantinople reading room; View of Istanbul and the Golden Horn | 1896 (painted) Watercolour over pencil Artist: Gorkiewicz, Evelyn [Eveline] Alice Wanda (OBE) (painter...
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Club de Constantinople
Mavi Boncuk | [page 254] "One only needs to cast a glance at the Young Turks who are the leaders of fashion in the "Club de Constantinople"—after the English and French members are absent—with German...
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Berlin Türk Şehitliği
pictured The Red Mosque at Schwetzingen Castle, Germany's oldest mosque constructed between 1779-1791 "What makes Frederick the Great, the Prussian ruler fascinating is his complexity. His life was...
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Schwetzingen Mosque – Germany
Mavi Boncuk | Germany’s first (non functional garden folly) mosque/mesjid is found in the gardens of Schwetzingen Castle[1]. Designed with Moorish-style domes and built in 1780 by French architect...
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A Question of Presidential Campus Sizes
A Question of Presidential Campus Sizes Mavi Boncuk | White House, Washington DC, USA 5,200 square meters (excluding East and West Wings) Public access by appointmentGerman Federal Chancellery,...
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Many Names of ISIL
Founded as "Cemaat el-Tevhid vel-Cihad"changed in October 2004 to "Tanzim Kaidat el-Cihad fî Bilâd el-Rafidayn" commonly mentioned as El Kaida of Iraq. Renamed "Mücahidîn Şûrâ Konseyi" after joining...
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Mamma li Turchi | Gabriele Mandel
Mamma li Turchi (1990). by Gabriele Mandel | Il Canocchiale/Lucchetti[ISBN] 88-85839-55-XMavi Boncuk |Gabriele Mandel (February 12, 1924 in Bologna - July 1, 2010 in Milan) was an Italian psychologist,...
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The Turkish Twins | Cahit Uçuk
Mavi Boncuk | The Turkish Twins[1] by Cahit Uçuk. Jonathan Cape[2] , London, 1956. First U. K. Edition Illustrated throughout by Sabiha Bozcali[3]. Translated from the Turkish by Dorothy Blatter[4]....
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A Gas Relief Called Cairo Decleration
Mavi Boncuk |Cyprus, Greece and Egypt inaugurated a new period of cooperation on Saturday, by signing the Cairo Declaration, which includes strong references for the Cyprus issue and the Turkish gas...
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Word Origin | Zeytin
Mavi Boncuk |Olive is first mentioned in Scripture when the dove returned to Noah’s ark carrying an olive branch in its beak (Gen.8:11). Since that time, the olive branch has been a symbol of “peace”....
View ArticleISIS-Turkey Links By David L. Phillips
See also: DIPLOMATIC HISTORY:The 2009 Protocol on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Turkey and The 2009 Protocol on the Development of...
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Small Pox and Lady Mary Wortley Montague
Mavi Boncuk | Memorial to the Rt. Hon. Lady Mary Wortley Montague erected in Lichfield Cathedral by Henrietta Inge. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat...
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Ottoman Era Satirical Magazines
[1] Vartan Pasha (Hovsep Vartanian or Osep Vartanian) was an Ottoman Armenian statesman, author, and journalist of the 19th century, promoted to the rank of "Pasha" after three decades in the service...
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1886 | The Angel of Peace
Mavi Boncuk | "The Angel of Peace" - 1886Caption reads "Bismarck Keeps the Balance, and the Turk Pays the Freight"The angel of peace / Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894, artist N.Y. : Published by...
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1885 | Tough on Turkey
Mavi Boncuk | Gillam, Bernhard[1], 1856-1896, artist N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1885 April 22. | chromolithograph. Illustration shows the British lion and the Russian Bear...
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Mustafa Kemal by Mihri Müşfik Hanım
Princess Mihri Achba, Mihri Müşfik Hanım, Mihri Rasim (26 February 1886 - c. 1954) was the one of the first and renowned Turkish female painter. She was the first contemporary female artist to study...
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Go West Turkish Men Go West
Mavi Boncuk | Mavi Boncuk | BEING A TURK IN CALIFORNIA Prof. Dr. Faruk Şen - sen@zft-online.de - ‘Being a Turk in California’ has many more positive connotations than being a Turk elsewhere in the...
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Profile | Fuat Sezgin (1924 - )
Sezgin has argued that Muslim seafarers had reached the Americas by 1420, citing as evidence the inscription on a map and the fact that the high longitudinal precision of early maps of the Americas...
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