57th Karlovy Vary IFF | About Dry Grasses by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Mavi Boncuk | The film will be distributed in France by Memento Distribution on 12 July 2023 under the title Les herbes sèches.About Dry Grasses / Kuru otlar üstüne Turkey / France / Germany /...
View ArticleWord Origins Redux | Hayta, Serseri, Hırbo, Hırt, Hırtapoz, Zıpır
Mavi Boncuk | Mavi Boncuk |Hayta: Serseri, serkeş, başıboş, havaî, haylaz, saygısız, kaba, kabadayı, holigan, külhanbeyi.TR; brigand, hooligan, hobo, rascal, wastrel, lowlife, rascaille, vaurien, rogue...
View ArticleEU Watch | MAM says "Like How"
Mavi Boncuk | İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), who is pushing for a major overhaul of the CHP following a defeat in the presidential election last...
View ArticleEU Watch | MAM Talks to EU
Mavi Boncuk | Turkey is negotiating its accession to the European Union (EU) as a member state, following its application to become a full member of the European Economic Community (EEC), the...
View ArticleMorphology of the Bosphorus
Mavi Boncuk |The Palaeozoic-Upper Cretaceous basement palaeomorphology of the Bosphorus (the Strait of Istanbul) bears the evidence of a valley of a palaeostream running to the Black Sea in the north,...
View ArticleEU Watch | MAM Shows the Door
Mavi Boncuk | Turkey made a surprise pledge to drop its opposition to Sweden joining NATO, paving the way for the Nordic country to become a member of the Western military alliance.NATO Secretary...
View ArticleWord Origins | İşve, Şuh, Cilve
Mavi Boncuk | İşve: (ﻋﺸﻮﻩ) i. (fromAR. ‘işve) Güzelin gönül çekici ve şuh hâli, cilvesi, naz ve edâsı: Eğilmeziz nüsha-i mihr ü vefâdan kılma bahs / Gerçi fenn-i işvede hûban mâhirdir bütün (Fıtnat...
View ArticleA New Museum by İşbank
Mavi Boncuk | Located on Istiklal Street, right next to Odakule, the historical building that served as the Beyoğlu Branch of İşbank between 1953 and 2016 will be converted into a painting...
View ArticleIn Memriam | Roni Margulies (1955-2023)
Poet, author, journalist, and translator Roni Margulies, lost his life at the age of 68. His father an Ashkenazi Jew, and his mother a Sephardic Jew, Margulies was a long-standing member of the...
View ArticleIn Memoriam | Safa Önal (1930-2023)
Master screenwriter Safa Önal died at the age of 92.Safa Önal, the screenwriter of the films Ah Güzel İstanbul, Vesikalı Yarim, Dila Hanım and Tatar Ramazan, passed away at the age of 92. Mavi Boncuk |...
View ArticleIn Memoriam | Rafael Sadi (1955-2023)
"When my late father Rafael Sadi, whose Turkish name was Rıfat (my mother still calls him Rıfat), passed away, the phone calls stopped. I have never spoken to so many people on the phone in my life....
View Article2023 Pearl Guide Ranking of Turkish Restaurants
The fifth of the Gospel Gastronomy Guide, one of the most prestigious guides in the world of gastronomy, prepared with Turkey's first and only unique rating system, is on its way. Pearls will find...
View ArticleIn memoriam | Mustafa Erkin Koray (1941-2023)
Erkin Koray, the legendary name of Turkish rock music, passed away at the age of 82. It was reported that Erkin Koray was hospitalized in Toronto, Canada, where he lived for a long time, due to health...
View ArticleTurkiye is Region2
Mavi Boncuk | DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997. It is designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including...
View ArticleAcademia | Prof. Dr. Tolga B. Uyar, Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University
Tolga Uyar graduated from Istanbul University's Department of Italian Language and Literature in 1996. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1997 and his master's degree in 1998 from the Department of...
View ArticleProfile | Osman Hamdi Bey and Hermann Volrath Hilprecht (1859 –1925)
Osman Hamdi Bey and the AmericansExhibitions (Penn Museum and Pera Museum) was based on the intersecting lives of painter, archaeologist, and museologist Osman Hamdi Bey, American archaeologist and...
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