1932 | Trotsky in Galata Port
Mavi Boncuk |Politician Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of the 1917 October Revolution and founder of the Red Army, applied for a visa to Germany and Britain when his country was expelled from the...
View ArticleCORNUCOPIA| All Issues
Mavi Boncuk | Cornucopia was founded by John Scott and Berrin Torolsan in 1992. It is an English language magazine that concerns Turkish culture. The magazine has a broad scope that covers Turkey’s...
View ArticleWord origin | Hırt, Militan
Mavi Boncuk | Hırt: boor n., stupid n., ninny n. adj., butt-wipe n., yard dog [1] EN n.i. (Kökü belli değildir) argo. Hoyrat ve görgüsüz tavırlı, incelikten mahrum, kaba kimse: Efendi kılıklı...
View ArticleProfessor Metin Tolan is next President of the University of Göttingen
Mavi Boncuk |Press release: Professor Metin Tolan is next President of the University of GöttingenNo. 10 - 27.01.2021Senate and University Foundation Committee vote for 55-year-old physicistThe...
View ArticleSources | Etymological Dictionaries of Turkish
Graphic model of Türkic language relationship SOURCEMavi Boncuk |Vambery, Herrman | Ármin Vámbéry (1878)Etymologisches Wörterbuch der turko-tatarischenSprachen, Leipzig 1878 (Facsimile: Osnabrück...
View ArticleProfile | Annemarie von Gabain (1901 -1993)
Mavi Boncuk | Annemarie von Gabain [1] (7 April 1901 — 15 January 1993) was a German scholar who dealt with Turkic studies, both as a linguist and as an art historian.Gabain was born in Mörchingen on 7...
View ArticleProfile | Willy Bang Kaup (1869-1934)
Mavi Boncuk |BANG KAUP[1], Willy (Willi, Wilhelm Max Julius Bang Kaup). Wesel 8/9.8.1869 — Darmstadt 8.10.1934. German Linguist, Turkic and Iranian Scholar. Professor at Louvain and Berlin. Born in...
View ArticleProfile | Reşid Rahmeti Arat (1900-1964)
Mavi Boncuk |Reşid Rahmeti Arat, originally named Gabdurraşid Rachmatullin, was born on 15 May 1900, the son of Gabdurraşid İsmetullin and Mahpeyker, in the village of Eski Ücüm, which lies...
View ArticleProfile | János Eckmann (1905-1971)
János Eckmann (1905-1971)and Beno Eckmann (1917 - 2008)Beno Eckmann was born on 31 March 1917 in Berne, Switzerland. Beno Eckmann died on 25 November 2008 in Zürich, Switzerland.Mavi Boncuk |ECKMANN,...
View ArticleBook | The Orientalist Karl Süssheim Meets the Young Turk Officer İsma’il...
Mavi Boncuk | The Orientalist Karl Süssheim Meets the Young Turk Officer İsma’il Hakkı Bey Author: Jan Schmidt Two Unexplored Sources from the Last Decade in the Reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid...
View ArticleWord Origins | cukka, denyo, dikiz, gacı, kanka, keriz, laço, nanay, roman,...
Pictured: A. Fikri, Lugat-ı Garibe, 1889 28 pages, İstanbul : Alem Matbaası, Ahmed İhsan[1] ve Şürekası Matbaacılık. PDF Marmara University(Turkish) Paperback – January 1, 2020[*] AHMED İHSAN TOKGÖZ...
View ArticleBook | Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late...
Mavi Boncuk | Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire by Malte Fuhrmann,[1] Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Cambridge University Hardcover – October 29,...
View ArticlePoem | Do not go gentle into that good night (Turkish Translation)
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” is a villanelle—a strictly patterned kind of formal poetry. Villanelles are written in tercets and follow an interlocking, repetitive structure. The first stanza...
View ArticleWord Origin | Turks in Space
Russia's space agency Roscosmos is awaiting an offer from Turkish officials to collaborate on Ankara's most recent project to send a citizen to the moon. "We are expecting concrete offers to develop...
View Article1670 | Grammatica linguae Turicae
Mavi Boncuk | WILLIAM SEAMAN [1]Grammatica linguae Turicae, in quinque partes distributa, first edition, text in English and Ottoman characters, woodcut device on title, some light dampstaining, early...
View Article1709 | A Grammar of the Turkish Language
Mavi Boncuk |THE FIRST TURKISH GRAMMAR TO BE PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH, 1709, FOR MERCHANTS OF THE POWERFUL LEVANT COMPANY(TURKEY) VAUGHAN, Thomas. A Grammar of the Turkish Language. London: J. Humphreys...
View ArticleDiplomacy | Ahmed Rüstem Bey (1862–1934)
Mavi Boncuk |Ahmed Rüstem Bey was accredited as Ottoman Ambassador to the United States of America at a critical juncture before the First World War. The Ottoman Empire had weakened as a result of...
View ArticleArticle | Ottoman Campaigns in the First World War by Edward J. Erickson
Mavi Boncuk |Ottoman Campaigns in the First World WarEdward J. EricksonAntalya Bilim UniversityAbstract | LINK to ArticleUnlike the British or the Americans, the Turks do not officially designate or...
View ArticleBook | Istanbul rive gauche - Errances urbaines et bohème turque (1870-1980) -
Mavi Boncuk |Istanbul rive gauche - Errances urbaines et bohème turque (1870-1980) Timour Muhidine[1]ISBN978-2-271-09521-3 EAN 9782271095213 380 pagesEXCERPTOn the other side of the Golden Horn, facing...
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