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Top 10 Archaeological Sites in Turkey
Mavi Boncuk |Umut Erdem - ANKARAThe Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry has prepared a list titled “10 Unique Archaeological Monuments in Turkey.” T-shaped obelisks with special figures like a lion,...
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Book | Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff in Turkey and Secret Practices of the...
Mavi Boncuk | Secret Practices of the Sufi Freemasonsby Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff (Author), Stephen E. Flowers (Introduction, Translator) [1]Originally published in Germany in 1924, this rare book...
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Eski Anam Babam Takvimi
Mavi Boncuk |Eski Anam Babam TakvimiDoğum tarihlerinde ve diğer olaylarda tabirleri duyduğunuz bu terimlerde tahmini zaman belirlemek için kullana bilirsiniz.Rumi Aylar Miladi Takvime Göre...
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Word Origin | Kebap, Izgara, Grille, Mangal, Barbekü
Mavi Boncuk |Kebap: kebāb, kebab EN[1]fromAR kabāb كباب (kbb) kızartma, kızartılmış et Aramaic kbabā כבבא , Akkadian kabābu kızartmak, . 1.Ateşte veya susuz olarak bir kap içinde pişirilen et yemeği:...
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Ferzan Özpetek Honored in Venice
Mavi Boncuk |Turkish director Ferzan Özpetek received the special SIAE Award on Sept. 3 at the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival, which began amid strict safety measures and fewer celebrities...
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In memoriam | Birol Ünel (1961 – 2020)
Birol Ünel died in Berlin on 3 September 2020, aged 59, at a Berlin hospital, after suffering from cancer. He also suffered from alcoholism.Mavi Boncuk | Birol Ünel (18 August 1961 – 3 September 2020)...
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57th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Line Up Announced
Mavi Boncuk |The line-up has been announced for the National Film Competition of the 57th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, will commence on Oct. 3 in the southern province of Antalya for which a...
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The Kaiserlich-königliche Akademie für Orientalische Sprachen
The building in which the "Consular Academy" (successor organization of the "K.k. Academy for Oriental Languages") resided, now the seat of the US Embassy. Mavi Boncuk |The Kaiserlich-königliche...
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EU Watch | No Dialogue No Door
Mavi Boncuk |EU. In a resolution adopted on Thursday, September 17, 2020 by 601 votes in favour, 57 against and 36 abstentions, MEPs "condemn Turkey's actions in the exclusive economic zones of Greece...
View ArticleThe 27th International Golden Boll Film Festival
Mavi Boncuk |The 27th International Golden Boll Film Festival, organized by the Adana Metropolitan Municipality, kicked off in the southern province of Adana with a film screening on Sept. 14. In...
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Dresden | Türckische Cammer
Mavi Boncuk | Türckische Cammer (Turkish Chamber)It is twenty metres long, eight metres wide and six metres high: It is the seventeenth-century tent of silk and gilded leather, today the highlight of...
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Austrians in the Ottoman Court | Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Stephan Gerlach...
Mavi Boncuk | In the 1570s, Austria sent an embassy to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople in order to maintain contact during a fragile period of peace. This article examines the writings of two...
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Constantiople or Bust | Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor
Mavi Boncuk |Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011), also known as Paddy Fermor, was a British author, scholar, and soldier who played a prominent role behind the...
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Sevilla Map | Maritime Europe, EU Enlargement and Turkish Rights
Mavi Boncuk | EU Commission stated that “External reports prepared by the institutions are not official documents of the EU and they do not have legal and political values for the EU”. The EU...
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Orientalism | Luigi Mayer (c1750/55–1803)
Mavi Boncuk |Luigi Mayer (1755–1803) was an Italian-German artist and one of the earliest and most important late 18th-century European painters of the Ottoman Empire.Mayer was a close friend of Sir...
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Letter to Editor | Turkey Is Not the Aggressor
Mavi Boncuk |Turkey Is Not the Aggressor in Dispute With Greece by Amb Serdar Kilic WSJ 9/25/20Regarding your editorial “Showdown in the Mediterranean: Two NATO allies could go to war over a...
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Word Origin | Temiz, Hijyen
Mavi Boncuk |Temiz: from ASR tamyīz تمييز seçme, ayıklama, arıtma → temyizOldest source:temīz/temyīz "pak, tahir" [ Aşık Paşa, Garib-name (1330) ]temizlenmek [ Meninski, Thesaurus (1680) ] sıf. (Ar....
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2020 | Bosphorus Film Festival
Mavi Boncuk |The 8th Bosphorus Film Festival in Turkey's metropolitan city of Istanbul announced the films that will vie for the Best Film Award. Organized by Bosphorus Culture & Art Foundation,...
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Review | The Disconnected / Tutunamayanlar by Oğuz Atay
Tutunamayanlar (lit. the ones who cannot hold on; in English The Disconnected) is the first novel of Oğuz Atay, one of the most prominent Turkish authors of the twentieth century. It was written in...
View ArticleBook | In Search of a Lost Ladino: Letter to Antonio Saura
Mavi Boncuk |In Search of a Lost Ladino: Letter to Antonio Saura Paperback – February 1, 2006ladino: Letra a Antonio Saura Ke Kreya Azer Retratos Imaginarios Por Un Sefardi De Turkia Ke Se Akodra...
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