2019 Malatya Film Festival
Mavi Boncuk | 9th Malatya International Film Festival to be held this year with from Nov. 15 to 19, have been announced.Director Haydar Işık, is also the director of the 9th Malatya International Film...
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Word Origin | Tezgah, Komplo, Pranga, Sabotaj, Suikast
Internal divisions within the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) continued to cause consternation among party officials for another day, as the party chairman and the group deputy chairman...
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2019 | The Seattle Turkish Film Festival
Mavi Boncuk |The Seattle Turkish Film Festival (STFF) is set to return for its seventh year between Nov. 21-24, giving North American audiences four days to catch some of Turkey's finest cinematic...
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Word Origin | Nokta, Virgül
Mavi Boncuk |Nokta: period EN[1]fromAR nuḳṭa ͭ نقطة [#nḳṭ mr.] nokta, özellikle Arap yazısında kullanılan noktalama işaretleri from Aramaic nūḳdtā נוקדתא nokta, özellikle İbrani yazısında...
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New Maritime Frontiers of Turkey
Libya’s internationally recognized government and Turkey have signed an agreement on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean Sea that could complicate Ankara’s disputes over energy exploration with...
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Bloomberg 50 goes for Ekrem Imamoglu
Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul. PHOTOGRAPHER: TOLGA SEZGIN/NARPHOTOS/REDUXMavi Boncuk |Erdogan’s party had already lost Turkey’s capital, Ankara, and other big cities in March balloting as...
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Word origin | İpotek, Sigorta, Poliçe
The first legislation to regulate theinsurance industry in the Ottoman Empire was passed in the nineteenthcentury; article 29 of the Commercial Code , issued on 28 th July 1850,referred to marine...
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Book | Foreign Investment in the Ottoman Empire International Trade and...
Foreign Investment in the Ottoman Empire International Trade and Relations 1854-1914 by V. Necla Geyikdağı [1]Published:01-30-2011 232 pagesISBN:9780857719430 Imprint:I.B. Tauris As the borders of the...
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Books | The Berlin-Baghdad Railway and the The Hejaz Railway by Murat Özyüksel
Mavi Boncuk | The Berlin-Baghdad Railway and the Ottoman Empire Industrialization, Imperial Germany and the Middle Eastby Murat Özyüksel[1] ISBN-13: 978-1780768823 ISBN-10: 1780768826Railway expansion...
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Gracia Maria Robin of Smyrna (1736- 1789)
Mavi Boncuk |Gracia Maria Robin was the daughter of a wealthy French merchant, Jean Baptiste Robin, in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, in what is now Turkey. Her name has erroneously been recorded in places as...
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Mavi Boncuk |With a vote of 18-4, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted S.2641, a bipartisan Turkey sanctions bill spearheaded by Chairman Risch (R-ID) and Ranking Democrat Robert Menendez...
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Word Origin | Konşimento, Fatura
Mavi Boncuk |Konşimento : shipping document, bill of lading[1][2], way bill, consignment[3] EN fromIT conoscimento tanıma, teyit, deniz ticaretinde teyit belgesi from conoscere tanımak, teyit etmek,...
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Word Origin | Pot, Pot kırmak, Potur, Gaf, Agraf
Mavi Boncuk |Pot: kumaşta bolluk fromARM p'ot'փոթOldest source: "giyside buruşukluk veya kırık" [ Filippo Argenti, Regola del Parlare Turco (1533) ]Pot kırmak:"münasebetsizlik, kabalık (argo)" [ Ahmet...
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In Memoriam | Tonguç Yaşar (1932-2019)
Mavi Boncuk |Tonguç Yaşar (b. Istanbul, Turkey 1932- d. Istanbul, Turkey December 15, 2019) Tonguç Yaşar, a renowned caricaturists in Turkey, was born in Istanbul in 1932. He started drawing caricature...
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Portrait | Sir Edward Denison Ross (1871-1940)
Haidar Pasha CemeteryIstanbul, Istanbul, TurkeyMavi Boncuk | Sir Edward Denison Ross (London, 6 June 1871 – Istanbul, 20 September 1940) was an orientalist and linguist, specializing in languages of...
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Propaganda | Die Wacht am Hellespont
Mavi Boncuk | K.A.Wilke[1], "Die Wacht am Hellespont", in "Die Muskete"[2](Austria, April 29, 1915) Caption reads: "Nun, ist euch die Lust schon transitions ?!" Translation: "Now don't you feel like it...
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Good Luck Token with Ottoman Flag
Mavi Boncuk | Good Luck Token from D. J. Faour & Brothers, Bankers, of New York City[1]. 1891 D.J.Faour & Brothers Bankers and Merchants 63 Washington St. New york, N.Y. A more complicated...
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EU Watch | MAM Makes a Killing
Mavi Boncuk |Yıldız Kenter (11 October 1928 – 17 November 2019) was a Turkish actress and lecturer.
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Article | Turkey Pivots to Tripoli BY Soner Cagaptay and Ben Fishman
Mavi Boncuk | SOURCETurkey Pivots to Tripoli: Implications for Libya’s Civil War and U.S. PolicySoner Cagaptay and Ben FishmanSoner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family Fellow at The Washington Institute and...
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Map from Mahmud al-Kashgari's Diwan (11th century)Mavi Boncuk | One of al-Kashgari's most historically significant poems, tells of the Turko-Islamic conquest of the last of the renowned Central Asian...
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