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In Memoriam | Volkan Konak (1967– 2025)
Turkish singer Volkan Konak passed away at 58 on Sunday night. In the late evening of 30 March 2025, Konak suffered a medical emergency and collapsed while on stage; he died shortly afterwards, early...
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Turkish Cinema, 1970–2007: A Bibliography and Analysis
Mavi Boncuk | Turkish Cinema, 1970–2007: A Bibliography and Analysis New Editionby Kerem Kayi (Author), Ekkehard Ellinger (Author): Publisher : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der...
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Review: New Turkish Cinema By Olaf Möller
Mavi Boncuk |Columns | Books Around: New Turkish CinemaBy Olaf Möller[1] "I write regularly for Stadt-Revue, which is something like the Village Voice of my beloved hometown. Then there's film-dienst,...
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44th Istanbul Film Festival | Turkish Films of Golden Tulip Competition
Mavi Boncuk | 44th Istanbul Film Festival 11-22 April 2025IIFF 2025 | Turkish Films of Golden Tulip CompetitionTHE SHALLOW TALE OF A WRITER WHO DECIDED TO WRITE ABOUT A SERIAL KILLERDirector: Tolga...
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44th Istanbul Film Festival 11-22 April 2025 | HONORARY AND OUTSTANDING...
Mavi Boncuk |CINEMA HONORARY AWARD ZUHAL OLCAY■ She graduated from Ankara State Conservatory. In the 1980s, she starred in various TV productions, including her first TV film, Sönmüş Ocak, and later...
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Turkish Billionaires according to Forbes
Forbes announced the list of dollar billionaires, saying “The billionaires club has never been bigger,” and has passed the 3,000-person threshold for the first time in history. Türkiye’s 35...
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International Urla Gastronomy Film Festival | May 2 – May 4, 2025
Mavi Boncuk | International Urla Gastronomy Film FestivalMay 2 • 12:00 – May 4 • 23:30The International Urla Gastronomy Film Festival aims to bring gastronomy and cinema together, sharing the flavorful...
View ArticleBook | Devlet Ana
Mavi Boncuk | Devlet Ana is a historical novel, one of the most important works of Kemal Tahir, one of the important writers of Turkish literature, published in 1967. It deals with the expansion of the...
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Bab-i Ali Street |Environs of The Sublime Porte
Mavi Boncuk |BAB-I ALI STREETThe street that starts from Eminönü and intersects with Divanyolu Street from the north gate of the Istanbul Governor's Office building, following the Iranian Consulate, is...
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Osman Hamdi Sale | Preparing Coffee, from 1881
Mavi Boncuk |A painting by 19th-century Ottoman painter Osman Hamdi Bey, recently rediscovered, has sold for £1 million ($1.3 million) at a London[1] auction, drawing strong interest from collectors...
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In Memoriam | Ali Özgentürk ( 1945 – 2025)
Director and screenwriter Ali Özgentürk has passed away at the age of 80. Documentary director, journalist and writer Nebil Özgentürk announced the death of his brother, director Ali Özgentürk, on...
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Word Origins | Ekmek, Somun, Çörek, Pandispanya, Francala, Kek, Pasta, Turta...
Mavi Boncuk |Ekmek, Somun, Francala, Pandispanya, ÇörekEKMEK: i. Bread EN [1] (Eski Türk. etmek’ten benzeşme ile ekmek)1. Unun su ile yoğrulmasından elde edilen hamurun fırın, saç veya tandırda...
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Sabbatean Religious Community in the Ottoman Era
Mavi Boncuk | Sabbatean religious community was a messianic religious movement established around the Jewish theologian Nathan of Gaza (1643–80) and the Kabbalist Sabbatai Zevi (1626–76), a Jewish...
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Profile | Albert Howe Lybyer (1876 – 1949)
The government of the Ottoman Empire in the time of Suleiman the MagnificentLink: In English from GutenbergAlbert Howe Lybyer"The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the...
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Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2025 shortlists Rami Library
Mavi Boncuk |Aga Khan Award for Architecture announces 2025 shortlist, 19 projects in 15 countries, from Senegal to China.The 19 shortlisted projects were selected by an independent Master Jury from a...
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Film | Gülizar (2024) by Belkıs Bayrak
Mavi Boncuk |GülizarTürkiye, Kosovo/ 2024 / 84’ / DCP / Color / Turkish, Albanian / English Subtitles Director: Belkıs Bayrak; Screenplay: Belkıs Bayrak; Director of Photography: Kürşat Üresin; Art...
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Profile | İbrahim Hakkı KONYALI (1896-1984)
Among the bad practices that he wrote down were the ones done during the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a museum. In a report he prepared in 1936, he told the authorities about the construction date...
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Ayşe Hür Article | Did Stalin ask Turkey for Kars, Ardahan and the Straits in...
During the Stalin era, the USSR’s demanding Kars and Ardahan from Turkey, as well as bases on the Straits, compelled Turkey to join NATO; it also compelled Turkey to pass legislation banning the...
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Word Origin | Sikke, Para, Mangir, Papel, Akçe
Mavi Boncuk | SİKKE (ﺳﻜّﻪ) i. (from AR sikke) Coin EN[1]1. Mâdenî para: … bir altın ile birkaç gümüş sikkeden başka bir şey bırakmadı (Nâmık Kemal). Gülistan, altın sikkelerle süslenmiş küçük bir al...
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Article | Why the Armenian Diaspora Supports Palestine
The Armenian Quarter (Arabic: حارة الأرمن, Harat al-Arman; Hebrew: הרובע הארמני, Ha-Rova ha-Armeni; Armenian: Հայոց թաղ, Hayots t'agh ; currently mostly known as Երուսաղէմի հայկական թաղամաս,...
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Book | 82 Years in Turkey in the Mirror of a Life by Osman Ulagay
Mavi Boncuk | OSMAN ULAGAY’S ‘82 YEARS IN TURKEYE: ulagayosman@gmail.com‘82 Years in Turkey in the Mirror of a Life’ (Doğan Kitap). This book includes Osman Ulagay’s[1] world of thought that has been...
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Engels 1853 | The Turkish Question and What is to Become of Turkey in Europe
Friedrich Engels (28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, political theorist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He was also a businessman and Karl Marx's lifelong friend and...
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“I hated Constantinople and my useless work.” | Vladimir Jabotinsky
'I was not successful with Nazim Bey, the Secretary General of the Young Turk Party… I felt that no pressure would help for them, wholesale assimilation is a sine qua non condition for that nonsense...
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What will happen in the Iran war | Sevan Nişanyan
Mavi Boncuk |What will happen in the Iran warWill the Iranian regime be overthrown - Will the US join the war - Why is the US public against the war - Can Israel win alone - Why did Netanyahu attack -...
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1909 | 1325 Suadiye Mosque
Mavi Boncuk | Suadiye 1909Suadiye camiiIt is one of the districts formed thanks to the İzmit railway completed in 1873. It is named after the Suadiye Mosque, was built in 1909 by Reşad Pasha, one of...
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