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Book | The Embroiderer
Mavi Boncuk |The Embroiderer 1822: During one of the bloodiest massacres of The Greek War of Independence, a child is born to a woman of legendary beauty in the Byzantine monastery of Nea Moni on the...
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Gina Haspel | Return to Ankara
CIA Director Gina Haspel on her way to Turkey to investigate the Kashoggi case.Haspel's travel is immediately connected with the "U.S. government’s investigation into the death of Khashoggi", a senior...
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Word Origin | Kurdele, Kordon, Dantel, Kadife
Mavi Boncuk |Kurdele: ribbon EN[1] fromIT cordola dar kumaş şeridi IT corda ip, şerit → kordonoldest source: kordela [ Ahmet Mithat Ef. (1889) ]Kordon: cord EN[2] from FR cordon 1. kalın örme ip, 2....
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6th Bosphorus Film Festival | National Cinema
Mavi Boncuk | The highly anticipated national competition films and juries of the 6th Bosphorus Film Festival National Competition films announced.This year, 10 films will be judged by the jury:...
View ArticleArticle | The INF Treaty by Gwynne Dyer
Can not miss events happening over our heads.Mavi Boncuk |October 24 2018 By GWYNNE DYERThe last time I wrote about the treaty banning ‘intermediate-range’ nuclear missiles was 31 years ago, and I...
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Book | Writing Food History
Mavi Boncuk |Writing Food HistoryA Global PerspectiveEditor(s): Kyri W. Claflin[1], Peter Scholliers[2]Published:10-01-2012Format:PaperbackEdition:1stExtent:304ISBN:9781847888082Imprint:Berg...
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Book | Earthly Delights Economies and Cultures of Food in Ottoman and...
Mavi Boncuk |Cover illustration: The Last Supper. The Church of Suceviţa Monastery (Courtesy of Petru Palamar).Earthly DelightsEconomies and Cultures of Food in Ottoman and Danubian Europe, c....
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Moshe Sharett (1908-1965)
A portrait of Moshe Sharett on the 20 New sheqalim banknote issued by the Bank of Israel.Mavi Boncuk |Moshe Sharett (1908-1965)Moshe Sharett was born in 1894 in Kherson (Ukraine). He moved to...
View ArticleAwrds | International Bosphorus Film Festival
Mavi Boncuk |Istanbul’s sixth International Bosphorus Film Festival ended on Nov. 3, with awards for international and national contesters announced.In a closing ceremony at Cemal Reşit Rey Concert...
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Allen, Annie T. 1868-1922
Mavi Boncuk |Allen, Annie T. 1868-1922MissionsAmerican Board of Commissioners for Foreign MissionsHarpoutVanBrousaSivasDescriptionPersonnel card for Annie T. Allen, an employee of the American...
View ArticleTürküm, doğruyum, çalışkanım
Mavi Boncuk |Originally written by Dr Reşit Galip for her daughters. Millî Eğitim Bakanlığı Talim Terbiye Kurulu 10 Mayıs 1933 tarih ve 101 sayı kararı ile bu “ Öğrenci Andı” nı, idealist Millî Eğitim...
View ArticleRecommended | Houshamadyan
Mavi Boncuk |Why Houshamadyan?In the first place historical difficulties led us to think that we should create a website of such wide content and size. Thus researchers in Ottoman studies very often...
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EU Watch | MAM Has No Worries
Mavi Boncuk | The mid-term elections will shape US politics for the next two years and beyond. What's at stake?
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Word Origin | Beyin, İlik, Meni, Akıl, Ruh, Nefes, Soluk
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul, (Genesis 2:7)[*]. Over the centuries scholars of the Bible have...
View ArticleGuardian Obituaries | Süleyman Demirel, Kenan Evren, Yasar Kemal, Mehmet...
Mavi Boncuk |Süleyman Demirel obituaryDominant figure in Turkey’s politics and seven times its PMDavid BarchardWed 17 Jun 2015 Süleyman Demirel in Helsinki, Finland, in 1975. Photograph: AFPIn 1983,...
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Book | Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean 1550-1810
Mavi Boncuk |Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean 1550-1810, 1st EditionEdited by Mario Klarer[1]Routledge282 pages | 15 B/W Illus.Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early...
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Book | The Well-Protected Domains by Salim Deringil
Mavi Boncuk | The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909 (Series) by Salim Deringil[1]ISBN-13: 978-1860643071ISBN-10: 1860643078Hardcover: 260...
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EU Watch | Wanted Not Wanted by MAM
Mavi Boncuk | The U.S. Department of State's Rewards for Justice program has authorized up to $12 million of rewards for information leading to the identification or location of the senior members of...
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Libya | Turkey Cries "Men Dakka Dukka"
Turkey walked out after eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar joined a meeting on the conference’s sidelines with his UN-backed rival Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj and other leaders, but not Turkey....
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