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Hochepied Family of Smyrna
Mavi Boncuk | Nicholas de Hochepied was born about 1524 in Antwerp, Belgium.Over the next 100 years the family descendants moved through Prussia into Holland where after 4 generations Daniel Jean de...
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Word Origin | Pornai Street
Pornai Street of Byzantium Constantinople located near Sultanahmet and named Asmalı Çeşme Sokağı,Mavi Boncuk | Porno: Pornos derives from the verb pernemi meaning “to sell” and the following three...
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Prostitution in Byzentine Era
Mavi Boncuk | Child prostitution was the result of parents’ decisions, in their abject poverty, to sell their daughters for 5 gold coins or to hire them out, as the chronicler Malalas narrates...
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Word Origin | Kumpas, Kumpas Kurmak
"O cemaat orduya kumpas kurdu." Yalçın Akdoğan (AK Party Politician and Adviser to PM)Mavi Boncuk | Kumpas Kurmak: to plot. Taking steps to achieve something.Kumpas: from ITcompasso compass EN pergel...
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Word Origin | Kandil, Mum, Candle, Vigil
Candle Vigil for Berkin ElvanMavi Boncuk |The pagan custom of burying lamps with the dead was to provide the dead with the means of obtaining light in the next world; the lamps were for the most part...
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1956 | So children are spared and even enjoy candies
Mavi Boncuk Translation | March 2014"So children are spared and even enjoy candies"Mavi Boncuk |Little Girl It is me knocking doorsDoors one by one Unseen...
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NYT Ad | One Two Punch
Today’s New York Times featured a full-page ad from an organization affiliated with the Occupy Gezi protests commemorating the life of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old boy who was killed by a police teargas...
View ArticleWord Origin | Fezleke
Mavi Boncuk |Fezleke : from Arabic faḏlaka ͭ فذلكة Text of explanation from Arabic fa ḏālika ف ذالك şunun için TR; for this EN. A Legal Brief. A brief (Old French from Latin "brevis", short) is a...
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St. Patrick's Day | Turkish Eyes Are Smiling
Mavi Boncuk |Ulan Sen Ayrish misin | Hey! Are you irish...A new study has revealed that many Irish men may be able to trace their roots back to Turkey. Focusing on the role of the Y chromosome, which...
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Gallipoli | The Best-Preserved Great War Battlefield Anywhere in the World
(pictured Anzac soldiers on a rest break at Gallipoli.Professor Tony Sagona and a team of archeologists, historians, classicists, geographers and government officials from Australia, New Zealand and...
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Most Popular Gallipoli Posting | A 1915 Gallipoli map
BONUS: The most popular map downloadfrom Mavi Boncuk Archives. A 1915 Gallipoli mapprinted by the Turkish War Ministry.Mavi Boncuk |British War Artist Herbert Hillier's Sketch of may 17, 1915 Salvos...
View ArticleMavi Boncuk | A Gallipoli Concordance
Mavi Boncuk |Gallipoli | The Best-Preserved Great War Battlefield Anywhere in the WorldOde to Gallipoli Martyrs | Canakkale TurkusuVelid Ebüzziya | Aerial Recon 1915Muavenet-i Milliye, Goliath...
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Zeytinburnu Towers and the Silhouette of istanbul
Zeytinburnu Towers and the Silhouette of Istanbul. We must ask ourselves. Why, who and for what aim millions are following fake news and assumptions instead of using science and common sense. If towers...
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Article | Turkey's Slow-Burning Alevi Unrest
Mavi Boncuk | read more...SOURCETurkey's Slow-Burning Alevi Unrestby Soner CagaptayAsharq Al AwsatMarch 24, 2014In the past year, Turkey has been shaken by anti-government rallies in which six...
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İsmail Beşikçi:Turkish sociologist, critic of Kemalism, and kurdologist
Mavi Boncuk | Ismail Beşikçi:Turkish sociologist, critic of Kemalism, and kurdologist[1]Martin van BruinessenFor many years, Ismail Beşikçi was the only non-Kurdish person in Turkey to speak out loud...
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Haliçray
Mavi Boncuk | Haliçray. As announced by the Istanbul mayor Kadir Topbas a new tunnel will connect Unkapani to Kasimpasa and the Unkapani Bridge will be removed. This project will reduce Beyoglu traffic.
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Not This
Mavi Boncuk | Silhouette of many (evil) twin buildings mar the view above Dolmabahce Palace.
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Cannes Film Festival Watch | Akin and Ceylan
Mavi Boncuk |“Winter Sleep” (Nuri Bilge Ceylan).With three festival prizes under his belt (Grand Prix wins for “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” and Distant,” plus a directing award for “Three Monkeys”),...
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Word Origin | An Apple or a Melon a Day!
Mavi Boncuk | Book | The Story of the Applehttp://maviboncuk.blogspot.com/2009/08/book-story-of-apple.htmlElma: ETü almıla apple (n.) Old English æppel "apple; any kind of fruit; fruit in general,"...
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Local Elections 2014
With a combined 5.6% vote BDP+HDP is still far from being an alternative to opposition CHP. Kurdish population is estimated to be between 13.0 M to 14.2 M ( 17.7%) in Turkey.JDP/Ak Parti has a larger...
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