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1961 | Ambassador Hare to State on Yassiada Trials
Mavi Boncuk |360. Telegram From the Embassy in Turkey to the Department of StateAnkara, April 4, 1961, 6 p.m.1193. During first courtesy call on Foreign Minister Sarper1 I referred to great interest of...
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Writers as Wrongers
Mavi Boncuk |There is a word that cannot be spoken in Turkey, and that is the word war. President Erdoğan and his backers are attacking Kurdish civilians, and are calling the military invasion an...
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Turkish Map of Best Local Food Brands
Mavi Boncuk |Babuko: In Zaza culture called Babuko, Kilora sîr, Sîr, ZêrvetBabuko is a type of meatless ravioli made of dough, with garlic meat belonging to the local cuisine of the Eastern Anatolia...
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Article | Kurdish Reactions to Their Abandonment in Syria by Bilal Wahab
Mavi Boncuk |POLICYWATCH 3206Kurdish Reactions to Their Abandonment in SyriaBilal Wahab[1] is the Wagner Fellow at The Washington Institute.October 25, 2019The U.S. withdrawal of troops from northeast...
View ArticleArticle | Obscured Hybridity: The Kurdishness of Turkish Folk Music
Mavi Boncuk |Pacific Review of EthnomusicologyVolume 15 (2010)Obscured Hybridity: The Kurdishness of Turkish Folk MusicBy Christina HoughWinner of the Vida Chenoweth Prize for best student paper at the...
View ArticleArticle | Mozart and Musical Exoticism by Luke Howard
Mavi Boncuk |MOZART AND MUSICAL EXOTICISMby Luke Howard SOURCEEnlightenment Europe in the 18th century seemed captivated by exotic cultures, a fascination expressed in its literature, art, design, and...
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Article | Towards a Global History of Music by Jacob Olley
The Exotic in Western MusicBy Jonathan Bellman editorMavi Boncuk |Towards a Global History of Music? Postcolonial Studies and Historical Musicologyby Jacob Olley SOURCEJacob Olley is a research...
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Word Origin | Bit, Pire, Tahtakurusu
Mavi Boncuk |Bit: lice EN[1 oldTR bitOldest source:bit "hayvan ve bitkilerde yaşayan asalak haşere" [ Divan-i Lugat-it Türk (1070) ]Pire: fleaEN [2]oldTR bürgeOldest source:bürge "aynı anlamda" [...
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Word origin | Cumhur, Cumhuriyet
Temeli büyük Türk milletinin ve onun kahraman evlâtlarından mürekkep büyük ordumuzun vicdanında akıl ve şuurunda kurulmuş olan Cumhuriyetimizin ve milletin ruhundan mülhem prensiplerimizin bir vücudun...
View ArticleH. RES. 296 Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide. IN...
House Democrats will bring to the floor on Tuesday a long-stalled and controversial resolution that could further inflame already tense U.S.-Turkey relations. Top Democrats say that is exactly the...
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Word origin | Ambargo
Pictured: An 1807 political cartoon showing merchants caught by a snapping turtle named "Ograbme" ("Embargo" spelled backwards). The embargo was also ridiculed in the New England press as Dambargo,...
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EU Watch | MAM Says Non Binding
Mavi Boncuk | Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar refused to back a resolution Tuesday that recognized the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I as a “genocide.”The Minnesota congresswoman...
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Book | Turkish Steam Railways
Mavi Boncuk |The west and south coastal areas of Turkey are the most familiar to Western holidaymakers but the interior, Black Sea coast and east of the country are less visited. As Western railway...
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Book | Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War by Egemen Bezci
The American ambassador interrupted a Turkish cabinet meeting. He was there to prevent them from deciding to militarily intervene in Syria. He told the Turkish leader that Washington “would not like to...
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Book | Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine
Mavi Boncuk |Author Priscilla Mary Isin ISBN-139781780239040Format Hardback, Publisher Reaktion Books Publication dateMay 14, 2018Pages280Product dimensions 199 x 257 x 25mm Weight1,092g"The Ottoman...
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Book | Turks in the Indian Subcontinent, Central and West Asia: The Turkish...
Mavi Boncuk |Turks in the Indian Subcontinent, Central and West Asia: The Turkish Presence in the Islamic Worldby Ismail K. H. Poonawala[1]Product SpecificationEdited by Ismail K. H. Poonawala...
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