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Musa Dağdeviren's Anatolian dishes on Netflix
Mavi Boncuk |Anatolian dishes expand to NetflixGÜLİZ ARSLANSOURCEThe Netflix documentary “Chef’s Table,” which tells the stories of world-famous chefs, last week featured the life of a Turkish chef for...
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The Antalya Film Forum wraps its fifth edition
The winners of the Fiction Pitching Platform: The team behind Everything in its Right Place (producer Engin Palabıyık, director Berrak Çolak and producer Müge Özen) and Deskmate director Ferit...
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Hünnap | Jujube
Mavi Boncuk |Hünnap: jujube Ziziphus jujuba (from Greek ζίζυφον, zízyphon), commonly called jujube, red date, Chinese date, Korean date, or Indian date. n Arabic-speaking regions the jujube and...
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Antalya IFF 2018 | Awards
“The festival films drew a huge turnout. We searched for peace, we became refugees and we came together with 1,200 guests. Some 34,900 people watched the films,” said Menderes Türel, mayor of the...
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Khalil Bey and L’Origine du Monde
Mavi Boncuk | The depiction of a naked female torso scandalised and shocked Paris when Gustave Courbet painted it in 1866. However, Courbet omitted the head, which has left critics to puzzle over the...
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1887 | A Map of Bosphorus
Mavi Boncuk |from Diversions of Diplomat in Turkey, by Cox[1] PDF Link[1] Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox (September 30, 1824, Zanesville, Ohio – September 10, 1889, New York City) was an American...
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Profile | Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1744-1856)
Mavi Boncuk |SOURCEJoseph von Hammer-Purgstall Birth: 9 Jun 1744 Graz, Graz Stadt, Styria (Steiermark), AustriaDeath: 23 Nov 1856 (aged 112) Vienna (Wien), AustriaBurial :Klosterneuburg-Weidling...
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The Monastery of Stoudios
The Monastery of Stoudios, more fully Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner "at Stoudios" (Greek Μονή του Αγίου Ιωάννη του Προδρόμου «εν τοις Στουδίου» Monē tou Hagiou Iōannē tou Prodromou "en tois...
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Mechitarists Moda School
The Mıhitaryan Armenian Catholic School in Moda, Kadıköy (pre-world war I)Mavi Boncuk | SOURCEIn the 19th century, the Mechitarists opened schools in several cities. In Istanbul, both the Venice and...
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Word Origin | SEVEN CANONS of ETYMOLOGY
Mavi Boncuk |SEVEN CANONS of ETYMOLOGY | SOURCEmodified and abbreviated from W.W. Skeat, 18791. Before attempting an etymology, ascertain the earliest form and use of the word; and observe...
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EU Watch | MAM Finds Agreement
Mavi Boncuk | A Turkish court has ruled for the release of an American pastor at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between Turkey and the United States after a hearing on Oct. 12 during which key...
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Freya Stark | Books on Turkey
Many famous writers throughout history have traveled extensively around Turkey. Mark Twain and Evliya Çelebi are two examples. The third most prolific example is Freya Stark[1] who was a British woman...
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Book | The Cypriot Mule Corps, imperial loyalty and silenced memory
Image of a muleteer and pack mule from ‘The Story of the Salonica Army’ by G. Ward Price (1918). The caption reads: The steep tracks up which all ammunition, supplies and water have to be carried to...
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Müteferrika Matbaası | Turkish Posting
İbrâhim Müteferrika’nın terekesinden iki sayfa (İstanbul Müftülüğü Şer‘iyye Sicilleri Arşivi, Kısmet-i Askerî Mahkemesi, nr. 98, vr. 39a-b)Mavi Boncuk | MÜTEFERRİKA MATBAASI1727’de İbrâhim Müteferrika...
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In Memoriam | Ara Güler (1928-2018)
Mavi Boncuk | SEE MAVI BONCUK PROFILEAra Güler Biography OFFICIAL SITE(b. Istanbul August 16, 1928- d. Istanbul October 17, 2018)Born on 16th August 1928, Ara Güler was a Turkish photojournalist, also...
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Remembering | Ara Güler (1928-2018) and Karayemiş
On Saturday, a memorial ceremony for Ara Güler was held at Galatasaray Square in Istanbul's European side. Later, Guler's coffin was taken to Üç Horan Ermeni Kilisesi (Yerrortutyun Armenian Church) in...
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Article | The case of Mesut Özil
Mavi Boncuk |SOURCEThe case of Mesut Özil as part of an Established-Outsiders Figurationby Adrian JitschinFed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the...
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Word Origin | Market, Pazar, Bonmarşe, Mağaza, Mahzen, Hazine
Mavi Boncuk |Market: market from EN market[1] çarşı, pazar from L mercatus ticaret, çarşı L mercari (to sell) satmak L merx, merc- ticari mal, metaOldest source: süper market [ Milliyet - gazete,...
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