Book | Sanatta Batıya Açılış Ve Osman Hamdi
I translated the two documents reprinted below from Latin for Prof. Mustafa Cezar . The cover below are from the 2 volume reprint designed by my friend Ersu Pekin.Mavi Boncuk | Sanatta Batıya Açılış Ve...
View ArticleAuction | | Portrait Of Sultan Mehmed II with A Young Dignitary
An original portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II – better known as Mehmed the Conqueror – was purchased by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) for 770,000 pounds ($955,000), at an auction held...
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View ArticleDARK Side of Baran bo Odar
Mavi Boncuk |Baran bo Odar is a German film and television director and screenwriter. Baran bo Odar[1]was born in Switzerland in 18 April 1978, studied Directing at the University of Television &...
View ArticleBOOK SERIES Life Narratives of the Ottoman Realm
BOOK SERIESLife Narratives of the Ottoman Realm: Individual and Empire in the Near EastAbout the SeriesAs a consequence of the political developments following World War I, the Ottoman Empire has been...
View ArticleBook | Ottoman Women Builders The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan...
Mavi Boncuk |Ottoman Women BuildersThe Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan SultanBy Lucienne Thys-SenocakFirst Published 2007ISBN 9781138264229Published November 11, 2016 by Routledge346...
View ArticleBook | New Turkes Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England
Mavi Boncuk |New TurkesDramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern EnglandBy Matthew DimmockCopyright Year 2005ISBN 9780754650225Published March 23, 2005 by Routledge264 PagesHardbackEarly...
View ArticleBooks | Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700 and Studies on Ottoman Society and...
Mavi Boncuk |Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700By Rhoads Murphey[1]Copyright Year 1999ISBN 9781857283891278 PagesOttoman Warfare is an impressive and original examination of the Ottoman military machine,...
View ArticleArticle | The Precarious Intimacy of Honor in Late Ottoman Accounts of...
Mavi Boncuk |The Precarious Intimacy of Honor in Late Ottoman Accounts of Para-militarism and Banditry LINK Tolga Uğur Esmerhttps://doi.org/10.4000/ejts.4873AbstractThis essay sets up a dialogue...
View ArticleGaspare Trajano Fossati restoration of Hagia Sophia
Mavi Boncuk | The most important stage in reaching the mosaics today is the restoration of Gaspare Trajano Fossati[1]. During the restoration carried out during the reign of Sultan Abdülmecid, Fossati...
View ArticleWord origins | Yangin, Alev, Duman
The forest fire that started in Istanbul Heybeliada in the evening hours, was taken under control 3 hours later with the intense efforts of the teams and the people of the island. The Governorate...
View ArticleIn Memoriam | Adalet Ağaoğlu (1929 - 2020)
Prominent Turkish author Adalet Agaoglu died on Tuesday at the age of 91. She is described as the most prolific authors of 20th century Turkish literature.“We lost Adalet Agaoglu this morning,” wrote...
View ArticleStolen Artifacts from Turkey | A Primer
Mavi Boncuk |AN ARRAY OF ARTIFACTS FROM THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF ANATOLIA AND THE MORE RECENT OTTOMAN EMPIRE ARE ON EXHIBIT IN SEVERAL GREAT MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD.And some of those artifacts...
View ArticleProfile | Paul B. Henze
Paul B. Henze, a former CIA and National Security Council specialist in psychological operations who wrote a compelling and provocative book arguing that the Soviet Union had engineered an attempted...
View ArticleWord origin | Dorse, Cemse
Mavi Boncuk |Dorse: marka Dorsey[1] Trailer Amerikan kamyon kasası imalatçısı \ 1911Oldest source:"TIR tipi kamyon kasası, semi treyler" [ m (1977) : çok az kullanılmış çekici-dorse-tente komple teslim...
View ArticleFilm | Hive by Eylem Kaftan
Mavi Boncuk |Hive 2019 ‘Kovan’ Directed by Eylem Kaftan[1] Fiction, Turkish; English sub., Turkey, 2019, Colour, 93’Director: Eylem KaftanProducer: Canol Balkaya, Eylem KaftanScreenplay: Eylem Kaftan...
View ArticleProfile | Dilhan Eryurt
Google Doodle marked the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on Monday by honoring Dilhan Eryurt, a Turkish astrophysicist and NASA scientist. Mavi Boncuk |Turkey on July 20 remembered...
View ArticleIn Memoriam | Seyfi Dursunoğlu (1932-2020)
Seyfi Dursunoğlu, better known as Turkey’s most famous drag queen “Huysuz Virjin” (Grumpy Virgin), died on July 17 in hospital in Istanbul due to complications from pneumonia brought by COPD.. He was...
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