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Archive Documents | YMCA in Turkey
Levant 1920 Prisoner of War Mail to Greece War Mail endorsed "Camp D'Officers Prisonniers de Guerre No 5505 / Talas (Cesaree) Turkey" with boxed hand-stamp "American Y.M.C.A. / Constantinople Prisoner...
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Levant 1920 Military Picture Postcard
Mavi Boncuk |Levant 1920 Military Picture Postcard to France Rare Picture Postcard from Constantinople endorsed "Mission Francaise a Angora" addressed to France cancelled "Tresor et Postes" datestamp...
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Mavi Boncuk | Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King ISBN-13: 9780393089141Georgetown professor of international affairs and author of Odessa, uses the eponymous...
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1919 | French Levant Cilicie
Mavi Boncuk | French Levant Cilicie 1919 Cover to Palestine envelope to Jaffa, bearing Yvert 2, 20pa rose and Yvert 6, 1p blue tied by Mersine date stamp with "Controle Postal Militaire / Mersina...
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Smyrna | Tramways
There were two horse tram lines: one 8.5 kms. long and and another of only 1.5 km. The electric tram system, which opened on Oct. 18, 1928, ran from the Parc de la Caserne to the suburb of Resadiye. It...
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Avram Galanté | Rare Booklet on Synagoges
Mavi Boncuk | Galante, Abraham (Avram) Abraham (Avram) Galante (usually with Gallicized spelling: Galanté), the scion of a distinguished Sephardi family in Bodrum, Ottoman Turkey, was a historian of...
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Awards | 21st International Golden Boll Film Festival , Adana
The winners of the National Feature Length Films category of the 21st edition of the International Golden Boll Film Festival have been announced. The Best Film Award was given to Nesimi Yetik's 'Toz...
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The Golden Orange, Turkey's longest-running film festival, will be held from Oct. 10 to 18 in the southern city of Antalya.Mavi Boncuk |The organizers of the Altın Portakal (Golden Orange)...
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Rosh Hashanah Greeting from the Jewish Quarter of Constantinople
The Victorian craze for 3D stereoscopic photography spread world wide and the Ottoman Empire was no exception.[1]Rosh Hashanah[2] Greeting from the Jewish Quarter of Constantinople.Mavi Boncuk |The...
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1919 | Frederick Thomas in Constantinople
Mavi Boncuk | Entrance to American Consulate General in Constantinople c. 1919, when Frederick Thomas[1] went there to try to get a new passport (Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress) SOURCE[1]...
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Foto Servanis Cadikeuy
Mavi Boncuk | Group Portrait of Greek Family ca. 1920 Constantinoplesepia print on paper, mounted on card and glazed (24x18)
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Raphael Khendamian Redux
Mavi Boncuk |Mavi Boncuk | Raphael Khendamian was an Armenian photographer who was active in Kadiköy (Chalcedon) of the Ottoman era.
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Article | Ottoman Pharmacist Pierre Apéry
Source: Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting, Volume 40 American Pharmaceutical Association., 1892 Mavi Boncuk | Ottoman pharmacist Pierre Apéry and his...
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Images of Eid el Adha from Ottoman Era
Mavi Boncuk | Eid el Adha (Sacrifice Feast) Chania, Island of Crete, Jaffa and Stamboul
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Early Cinema | Dimitri Meravidis
Mavi Boncuk | Osmanlı’nın ilk sinemacısı Fenerli Dimitri Meravidis, 1900’lerin başında Paris’e gidiyor. Lumiére Kardeşler’den hem fotoğrafı, hem de sinemayı öğreniyor. 1903’te İstanbul’a, yanında bir...
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Last Hurrah of Valérie Toranian
Ara Toranian's[1] ex-wife, Valérie Toranian[2], the editor of ELLE magazine pens an article for Kurdish women. "P.S. I left Elle magazine that I led for thirteen years. My gratitude, my recognition...
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EU | Turkey 2014 Progress Report
In a set of annual reports adopted today, the European Commission has assessed the progress made over the past year by the countries wishing to join the EU in the Western Balkans and by Turkey, and the...
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Ayn al-Arab | Kobanê
Mavi Boncuk |Ayn al-Arab (Arabic: ʿAyn al-ʿArab عين العرب) also known as Kobani (Kurdish: Kobanê or Kobanî) is a city in Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria.The city had a population of 44,821 in the...
View ArticleArticle | Turkey and the Battle for Kobane
The US-led coalition has carried out its most sustained air attacks so far on Islamic State fighters attacking the Turkey-Syria border town of Kobane. Syrian Kurdish fighters said the strikes were the...
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