Word origin | Misket, Cicoz
Mavi Boncuk | Bilye: [1] (from IT: (biglia) Misket[2], (bilye, cicoz, mile) Bursa (cilli) Aegean ( meşe), Sivas (cıncık). Various balls of stone were found on excavation near Mohenjo-daro. Marbles...
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Children's Games
Mavi Boncuk | Ample evidence from art and literature points to the existence of ancient Greek children’s games. For example, in the Republic, Plato refers to the “whirling of a shell in the children’s...
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Book | Turkish Democracy Today
Mavi Boncuk | Turkish Democracy TodayErsin Kalaycioglu (author)The experience of democracy in Turkey since its introduction in 1950 has been bloody, chequered but persistent. The complex cultural and...
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DHKP-C Hunt | 3 Top Targets
Rewards for Justice - Reward Offers for Information on DHKP/C Key Leaders: Musa Asoglu, Zerin Sari, and Seher Demir SenSee also:A Clean Bill for the New Leadership of DHKP/CRoad to DHKP-C | Charting...
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Istanbul is the Apple of My Eye
Mavi Boncuk | Apple Istanbul. Number 424. Now in Zorlu Center. Unlike the others, however, the Turkish store will be one of the first to use gigantic panes of glass in what looks to be a seamless...
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Fitch as Fitch Can
Mavi Boncuk |Fitch[1] rates Turkey BBB- with no change.[2]Investment grade AAA : the best quality companies, reliable and stableAA : quality companies, a bit higher risk than AAAA : economic...
View ArticleTurkey | Moody's Blues
Mavi Boncuk | Scrutiny of Turkey’s credit rating is increasing after Moody’s Investors Service put 10 banks on review for a downgrade, amplifying risks for investors as local elections loom amid a...
View ArticleSABRE in Istanbul
Now we know that the 3rd airport will happen. Mavi Boncuk |Sabre has launched operations in Turkey, where it will provide technology solutions to travel agencies and suppliers. The company opened an...
View ArticleArticle | The Red Line and the Rat Line
Some have criticized Hersh's use of anonymous sources in his reporting, implying that some of these sources are unreliable or even made up. In a review of Hersh's book, Chain of Command, commentator...
View ArticleSeymour Hersh and the Rat Line
Mavi Boncuk | The Turkish government has strictly ruled out Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s claims that Ankara was behind the August 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria,...
View ArticleTurkish growth to be hit by rate hikes, exchange rate – IMF
Mavi Boncuk | Turkish growth to be hit by rate hikes, exchange rate – IMFIMF revises it prevision for Turkey’s economic growth downward as local currency weakenReuters, Tuesday 8 Apr 2014IMF says...
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Women and Crime Statistics in Turkey
In 82% of cases man are victims of homicide in Turkey compared to women victims.Mavi Boncuk |Definition:Conviction is the verdict that results when a court of law finds a defendant guilty of a crime.A...
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US-Turkey - Fuel imports
Trends are getting better for Turkey for the last period.Mavi Boncuk | Turkey - Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) (%)Fuels comprise the commodities in SITC section 3 (mineral fuels).
View ArticleIMF Pro and Con on Turkey
Mavi Boncuk | Conditionally yours: An analysis of the policy conditions attached to IMF loansTurkey: How To Boost Growth Without Increasing ImbalancesTurkey has received well-deserved praise for its...
View ArticleS. RES. 410 | Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the anniversary of...
Mavi Boncuk |[Congressional Bills 113th Congress][From the U.S. Government Printing Office][S. Res. 410 Introduced in Senate (IS)]113th CONGRESS 2d SessionS. RES. 410 Expressing the sense of the...
View ArticleLeylekian Gives Up
Mavi Boncuk |On January 5, 2010, Sirma Oran-Martz[1], had lost her court case against Jean-Paul Bret, mayor of Villeurbanne (Lyon’s suburb), sued for discrimination; the Lyon’s tribunal concluded that...
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In Memoriam | Ernesto Laclau (1935-2014)
Ernesto Laclau (6 October 1935 – 13 April 2014)The political theorist Ernesto Laclau died yesterday at the age of 78 in Seville, Spain, where he had arrived to attend a conference.Argentine born,...
View ArticleArticle | The Liberals in Erdoğan's Wake
Mavi Boncuk |The Liberals in Erdoğan's Wakeby Soner CagaptayMajallaApril 16, 2014Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may still be the most popular leader in Turkey, but the bloom is off the rose when...
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Ceylan Wakes up from Winter Sleep at Cannes
“Winter Sleep” (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey-Germany-France) This three-hour-plus drama is set in the titular landscape of Ceylan’s previous film (and 2011 Cannes Grand Prix winner), “Once Upon a Time in...
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