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Turkish Cinema Newsletter
Mavi Boncuk |Turkish Cinema Newsletter is now part of Mavi Boncuk.Go to Mavi Boncuk and search for Film and Turkish Cinema for the latest articles.Turkish Cinema CataloguesTurkish Films 2014Download...
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Running for Uncle Oscar
Pictured Metin Erksan's "Susuz Yaz"Mavi Boncuk |From a dry summer to a winter sleep...Turkish entries for Academy Awards in the Foreign Language Film [1] category. For the last 10 years films were...
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Latif Suggestion
Will they return from the beach side to vote in the Presidential election. Demirci has the answer.Mavi Boncuk | "Is this the Gazi Primary School. I want to reserve for two in the afternoon at no. 142...
View ArticleThe House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee | The Future of Turkish Democracy
On Tuesday, July 15th, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats held a hearing entitled "The Future of Turkish Democracy" with expert witnesses Mr. Nate Schenkkan...
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Turkish DNA
Mavi Boncuk |A new paper in Science by Hellenthal et al. (2014) reveals extensive admixture in humans over the last few thousand years. Admixture is the result of previously distant populations meeting...
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1861 | The Armenian Origin of the Etruscans
As of 2014, we should know that Etruscan is not related to Armenian any more than it is related to Albanian or some other Indo-European language. Etruscan is quite different. The Etruscan language is...
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Word Origin | Nar, Pomegranete
During the campaign for presidential elections Demirtas of HDP mantioned that the people want to be like the fruit nar (pomegranete). This made Mavi Boncuk thinking about it's symbolism.Mavi Boncuk |1....
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The Kurdish languages
Mavi Boncuk | The Kurdish languages (Kurdî or کوردی) are several Iranian languages spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. The Kurdish languages, of which Kurmanji Kurdish has the largest number of...
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Ataturk Mausoleum Competition Entries
The period of Turkish architecture between 1940 and 1950 has been classified by architectural historians as the Second National Architecture Movement. This period is characterized mostly by monumental,...
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Europe | Carpets a la Turka
Shown Carpet (Ottoman) with a field of cintamani motif, c. 1550, Cairo, Egypt, wool, 79 x 48 inches (Metropolitan Museum of Art) "The popularity of what we call oriental carpets—pile-woven carpets...
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Akkor Twins Cook a few Books with their Sister
Mavi Boncuk | Yunus Emre Akkor's 150 recipes for today from the ottoman Kitchen Osmanlı MutfağıAlfa PublicationsTwin chefs Yunus Emre Akkor and Ömür Akkor also compete in releasing books and...
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Recommended | Kollektomani
Recommended | KollektomaniMavi Boncuk | A Turkish Blog site for collectors by GÜLDEREN BÖLÜK and BENAN KAPUCU
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Word Origin | Sel, Yel, Rüzgâr, Lodos, Poyraz, Kasırga, Fırtına, Yağmur,...
Mavi Boncuk |Sel: flood EN[1]; from Arabic sayl سيل [#syl faˁl msd.] sel, su akıntısı from Arabic sāla سال (su) aktıYel: from old Turkish yélRüzgâr: wind EN[2]; From persian rūzgār روزگار gün, gündüz,...
View ArticleWord Origin | Turkish Winds
See also Winds of the WorldMavi Boncuk |Gündoğusu: dry and cold East windKeşişleme : South East wind of Istanbul. Nautical sailor use. Keşiş, monk EN. from the direction of Keşişdagi/Uludag of Bursa....
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Save Pando: Eviction Threat for Istanbul's Iconic Kaymak Shop
Save Pando: Eviction Threat for Istanbul's Iconic Kaymak ShopMavi Boncuk | See Culinary Back Streets Article
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Article | Why Recep Tayyip Erdogan Will Be Turkey's First Directly Elected...
In recent speeches, Erdogan has clearly expressed his wish to fulfil more than just a symbolic role and to be "an active president", vowing to use the full extent of his constitutional powers and to...
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Tastes of Mavi Boncuk | Lokma
Mavi Boncuk | Lokma[1] tatlısı or simply lokma (Turkish) Loukoumades (Greek), or lokmades (Cypriot) (Greek: λουκουμάδες, singular λουκουμάςloukoumas, luqmat al-qadi (Arabic:لقمة القاضي, Persian: بامیه...
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Yezidism from Mavi Boncuk, Archives
”In August 2014, the Battle of Sinjar raged between Sunni militants of ISIS and Kurdish Peshmerga, leading to a mass exodus of residents, especially from the Yezidi community, branded by ISIS as "devil...
View ArticleArticle | Will President Erdogan Run Turkey?
Mavi Boncuk |Will President Erdogan Run Turkey? (Cagaptay | PolicyWatch 2302)On August 10, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been running the...
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