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Averoff's Deployment to Constantinople
Mavi Boncuk | Images from the ship's deployment to ConstantinopleSee also:The Averoff in Constantinople Averoff against "...the enemy of the Nation"
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Turkish Action of USS McFarland
Mavi Boncuk |USS McFarland (DD-237/AVD-14) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient John...
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Turkish Action of USS Sturtevant
Mavi Boncuk |USS Sturtevant (DD-240) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was the first ship named for Albert D. Sturtevant.Sturtevant was laid down on 23...
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Revolutionary Bandits
From February to November of 1906, California journalist Albert Sonnichsen made his way through the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, observing firsthand a country falling apart. Entrenched among a group...
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The Embassy of Turkey in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
Mavi Boncuk |Architectural Design by: Mimarlar and Han Tümertekin MONGOLIAN EMBASSY SERVICE BUILDINGThe Republic of Turkey Ulan Bator Embassy Residence Building is the first step of the embassy...
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1911 | Turkey or Ottoman Empire
Mavi Boncuk | The Americana supplement: a comprehensive record of the latest knowledge and progress of the world, Volume 2 Janet Dailey Scientific American Compiling Dep't, 1911Where we find...
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1923 Leaving Constantinople
Mavi Boncuk |1923 Deutsche Levante-Line Leaving Constantinople Die Deutsche Levante-Line AG (DLL)[1] Founded in 1889 to operate services to the Eastern Mediterranean, North African and Black Sea ports....
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In Memoriam | Halet Çambel (1916-2014)
As a fencer taking part in the Berlin Games in 1936, she was one of the first Turkish women participating in Olympic Games. Mavi Boncuk | Halet Çambel (Berlin 27 August, 1916 - Istanbul, January 11,...
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Nomadic Empires of the Steppes
map sourceMavi Boncuk |NOMADIC EMPIRES OF THE EASTERN STEPPES by Ian Mladjov[1]See The lists of Eastern rulersFrom the 5th to the 9th centuries, Central and East Central Asia were dominated by a...
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Book | Turkey, the great powers, and the Bagdad Railway
Baghdad Railway Concession was one of the triggers of Great War. This is one of the most important books on an era. Written almost as it happened.Mavi Boncuk | Turkey, the great powers, and the Bagdad...
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Matossian Brothers of Tokat
Belgium 1928 20 pieces in Sliding Box Producer British-American Tobacco Co. (Belgium) Ltd. S.A.B. Trade Mark Owner Tabacs & Cigarettes Matossian [1]Mavi Boncuk |Egypt’s largest tobacco factory was...
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LGBT Themed Turkish Literature | 1980-2003
LGBT Themed Turkish Literature | 1980-2003Mavi Boncuk |1980 ''Fena Halde Leman'' / Attilâ İlhan1981 ''Dersaadette Sabah Ezanları'' / Attilâ İlhan1984 ''Haco Hanım Vay'' / Attila İlhan1990 ''Bay Z...
View ArticleArticle | Turkey remains blind to foreign policy criticisms
Mavi Boncuk |Let’s note two events held in Ankara this week: the sixth annual Ambassadors Conference with a theme of “strong democracy, dynamic economy, effective diplomacy,” and the German Marshall...
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The Sixth Annual Ambassadors Conference | Opening Remarks by Foreign Minister...
Mavi Boncuk |The Sixth Annual Ambassadors Conference was inaugurated with the opening remarks by Foreign Minister DavutoğluThe Sixth Annual Ambassadors Conference was inaugurated with opening remarks...
View ArticleNovember 2013 | Article by H.E. Mr. Ahmet Davutoglu, Minister of Foreign...
Mavi Boncuk |Article by H.E. Mr. Ahmet Davutoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey published in Foreign Policy magazine (USA) on 15 November 2013With The Middle East in Crisis, U.S. and Turkey...
View ArticleArmenian Petition against the Decision of the ECHR
Mavi Boncuk | Denialism: Petition against the rogue decision of the European Court of Human Rights The European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France) ruled on December 17, 2013 that Dogu Perinçek...
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1925-2013 | Foreign Movies Run Through Turkey
Mavi Boncuk |1925-2013 | Foreign Movies Run Through Turkey Exhibition on a selection of posters of foreign films in several languages about Turkey made between 1925 and 2013 has opened in...
View ArticleWord Origin | Defter, Parchment, Vellum
Defter: from Arabic daftar دفتر TR yazı tableti from Aramaic dipterā דפתרא a.a. ~ oldGR diphthéra διφθέρα 1. treated skin as leather, 2. yazı tableti olarak kullanılan kesilip perdahlanmış deri...
View ArticleWord Origins | Syrup, Sorbet, Sherbet and Mesrubat ...Drinks that Is...
Mavi Boncuk |Şerbet: from AR Şariba EN to drink.[1] Şerbet, şarap and şurup, To Western languages from Turkish.Syrup:1392, from O.Fr. sirop (13c.), and perhaps from It. siroppo, both from Arabic...
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Nazim Hikmet | Spanish Flu in Istanbul
Nazim Hikmet as a Navy CadetMavi Boncuk |We the city of IstanbulWe saw the call to arms:Caucasus, Galicia, Gallipoli, PalestineBlack market, typhus and Spanish fluAnd the Unionists, and the long...
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