Turkey Wakes to "Winter Sleep"
Mavi Boncuk | “Winter Sleep,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s sprawling, character-rich portrait of a self-absorbed Anatolian hotelier and his uneasy relationships with those around him, won the Palme d’Or at the...
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In Memoriam | Maya Angelou 1928 - 2014
Maya Angelou born Marguerite Ann Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American author and poet. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and is...
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May 28 | First Ottoman Feminists and Guler Sabanci
May 28,2014 is the anniversary of Ottoman Feminism officially organized in 1908.At the end of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century educated women began organizing themselves as feminists within the...
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Book | The Gezi Park Protests: A Political, Sociological and Discursive Analysis
Mavi Boncuk |FULL TEXT: The Gezi Park Protests: A Political, Sociological and Discursive AnalysisFriday, May 30, 2014 | Book | Hatem Ete , Coşkun Taştan This study aims to determine the political and...
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MoMA Screens Rare Güney "The Wall"
Sunday, June 8, 2014, 5:30 p.m., Theater 2, T2 (Introduced by Erju Ackman, Turkish film scholar) Sunday, June 22, 2014, 2:30 p.m., Theater 1, T1Mavi Boncuk | Duvar (The Wall) 1983. France. Written and...
View ArticleHow Criminal is German Turkish Youth?
Mavi Boncuk |How criminal is German youth? A study by the Universities of Münster and Bielefeld has examined the criminal behavior of boys and girls and has come to amazing results.For the study of the...
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Elgar | Conference “Elgar in Turkey” and "In Smyrna"
Conference “Elgar in Turkey”Conference and Recital05 June 2014 / 18:30 Pera Museum is pleased to present a special conference by music historian Emre Aracı accompanied with a recital by Cihat Aşkın,...
View ArticleOttoman Modern Medical Education
Mavi Boncuk |Tıphane (March 14, 1827) Mahmud II eraMekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Adliye-i Şahane Military Medical School (1839)Mekteb-i Tıbbıye-i Mülkiye-i Şahane Civilian Medical School (1867-1909)Haydarpaşa...
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KONDA Gezi Report (Turkish)
Mavi Boncuk |KONDA Gezi Report (Turkish) PDFCONTENTS | İÇİNDEKİLER 1. SUNUŞ .... 3 2. GEZİ PARKINDAKİLER .... 4 2.1. Araştırma Nasıl Yapıldı? .... 4 2.2. Gezi Parkındakilerin Profilleri .... 5...
View ArticleThe Wall at MoMA
Mavi Boncuk |(Introduced by Erju Ackman, Turkish film scholar)The Wall at MoMA Film1983. France. Written and directed by Yilmaz Güney. A band of young boys fight to survive in a Turkish prison, itself...
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IŞİD by any other name
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) effectively governs a nation-size tract of territory that stretches from the eastern edge of the Syrian city of Aleppo to Fallujah in western Iraq – and now...
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Centenary of Turkish Cinema Catalogue
Mavi Boncuk |CELEBRATING THE CENTENARY OF TURKISH CINEMA. 1914-2014Download - Feature Films CatalogueDownload - Documentaries & Shorts Catalogue
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Lincoln Film 2014 | A Panorama of Cinema in Turkey
PDF of Program BookletMavi Boncuk |The Space Between: A Panorama of Cinema in Turkey was the largest retrospective of films from Turkey to be presented in the United States with more than 25 films...
View ArticleArticle | Clothing Laws, State, and Society in the Ottoman Empire
Mavi Boncuk | Clothing Laws, State, and Society in the Ottoman Empire, 1720-1829 Donald Quataert [1]International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 29, No. 3 (Aug., 1997), pp. 403-425 PDF of...
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Book | Tabanlioglu Architects: Transparency and Modernity
Tabanlıoğlu Architects (Turkish: Tabanlıoğlu Mimarlık) is an architectural firm based in Istanbul. The practice is led by Murat Tabanlıoğlu, Melkan Tabanlıoğlu and Özdem Gürsel. Established by Hayati...
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Recommended | Fluent in 3 Months
Who is Benny Lewis? My name is Benny (Brendan) Lewis. I was born in 1982, I’m a vegetarian from Cavan Ireland, I don’t drink, am not religious but am constantly full of wonder at all this incredible...
View ArticleWord Origin | Tezene , Mızrap, Bozlak
Mavi Boncuk |Tezene:TR Telli çalgıları çalmaya yarayan, kemik, maden, plastik veya özellikle kiraz ağacından yapılan alet, çalgıç.EN Quill. Pick, Plectrum[1].Mızrap:mızrab [ Meninski, Thesaurus,...
View ArticleWord Origin | yastik, somye, şilte, yatak, döşek , karyola, minder, sedir
Mavi Boncuk |yastık: yastıkETü: yastuk "bir tür sikke, yassılaştırılmış şey" [ Uygurca metinler, <1100 font="">1100>ETü: yastuk "yastık" [ Divan-i Lugat-it Türk, 1070]<< ETü yastuk <...
View ArticleMazurka
Mavi Boncuk | The mazurka[1] (in Polish, mazurek) is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with accent on the second or third beat. The folk origins of the mazurek are two...
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