A Golden Riga for Young Turks
Mavi Boncuk |U18 MEN Turkey Take Gold In Riga.Turkey celebrated a Gold Medal win at the U18 European Championship in Latvia on Sunday with a 81-74 win over Croatia in the tournament finale.In a...
View ArticleReading Ottoman Court Registers | Sicil
Mavi Boncuk | LinkMy name is Marios Hadjianastasis and I am a historian of Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern period. My specialisations include the history of the Ottoman Empire, Cyprus...
View ArticleGökçeada 5,3
Slowly but surely Turkey is moving Westward. Economically, socially, culturally and seismically. The Anatolian plate is escaping westward from between the vise of the converging Arabian and Eurasian...
View Article1501 | List of Trades
The Istanbul guilds of the Ottoman Empire witnessed a period of profound economic and political turbulence throughout the seventeenth century. Drawing on the kadi court records of Istanbul, the author...
View Article1520-1566 | Guilds
Mavi Boncuk | Partial List to Mucevvizeciler with trades from other lists to follow.
View Article1914 | Turkish Memories by Sidney Whitman
In this readable and instructive book Mr. Whitman sum up the experiences which he gained during several prolonged visits to Turkey—both in. Europe and in Asia—from 1896 to 1908. He mixed freely with...
View ArticleA Turk with a Sword and a Hunting Dog
Like all noble families of the Renaissance, the Medicis were interested in cultures outside their own art milieu, and formed collections which were kept and exhibited in special parts of their palaces....
View ArticleVodafone Calls Serpil Timuray
Mavi Boncuk | Serpil Timuray has been appointed as the regional director for the Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific (AMAP) regions of Vodafone, Vodafone Turkey announced in a press release Aug....
View ArticleErgenekon Verdicts
Mavi Boncuk |BBC Article | Ex-army chief Basbug gets life...Article | Erdogan Silences Dissent in Divided Tur...Article | How the Ergenekon Verdicts May Deepen T..Egypt BonusExposing the Hypocrisy of...
View ArticleOn the Hunt in EU
On the Hunt in EUGermany | www.nexxt-change.orgFrance| Le Portail National de la Reprise d'Entreprise: www.reprisedentreprise.comMavi Boncuk |Major takeovers so far:- Beko-Grundig- Ülker- Godiva-...
View Article55th Venice Biennale, 2013 | Yüksel Arslan
Yüksel Arslan, "Arture 130A", 196855th Venice Biennale, 2013The Encyclopedic Palace. Central exhibition features Yuksel ArslanArtistic director: Massimiliano Gioni. Mavi Boncuk | A Turkish artist with...
View ArticleWord Origin | Çıkın Bohça Yük Torba Koli Paket Poşet Bagaj Kutu
Taşı- taşumak "nakletmek, götürmek" , carry EN oldest source[ Divan-i Lugat-it Türk (1070) ] Mavi Boncuk |Çıkın Bohça Yük Torba Koli Paket Poşet BagajBohça: Çıkın TR, bundle EN: group of objects held...
View ArticleRebel Yell of Turkish Women Filmmakers in Toronto
Mavi Boncuk | TIFF programme of fiction and documentary shorts and features spotlights the vital new work being created by a rising generation of female Turkish filmmakers.Films in Rebel Yell: A New...
View ArticleYozgat Blues in Competition
YOZGAT BLUES (YOZGAT BLUES)MAHMUT FAZIL COSKUN (TURKEY-GERMANY)Sabri, a barber in Yozgat - a very small city in the middle of Anatolia - has an emotional breakdown when he runs into Yavuz and Neşe, who...
View ArticleCome, Come, Whoever You Are
Mavi Boncuk |Come, Come, Whoever You AreWonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.It doesn't matter.Ours is not a caravan of despair.Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand timesCome, yet again,...
View ArticleArticle Re-Loaded | The Mideast’s Next Dilemma (two years ago)
Mavi Boncuk |The Mideast’s Next Dilemma by Niall Ferguson [1]SOURCEJun 19, 2011 With Turkey flexing its muscles, we may soon face a revived Ottoman Empire.[1] Niall Ferguson is a professor of history...
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