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Ayıkla pirincin taşını/Pick the stones of rice.
Mavi Boncuk |Ayıkla pirincin taşını/Pick the stones of rice.Turkish expression used after an impossible to correct act.
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Oliver Baldwin | A Crusader for Armenians
Oliver Baldwin In Armenian Officer's Uniform [Note Mirrored Hh On Right And Left Shoulder Patches] Oliver Baldwin, Six Prisons and Two Revolutions: Adventures in Trans-Caucasia and Anatolia, 1920–1921...
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Congress of Ottoman Opposition
Pictured the congress of the Ottoman opposition (1902) in Paris.In 1831 Mazzini went to Marseille, where he became a popular figure to the other Italian exiles. He lived in the apartment of Giuditta...
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Malaysia Airports Flying Solo for Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
Mavi Boncuk | Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd. (MAHB) will buy out the additional 40 percent stake held by minority investors in Istanbul’s second-biggest airport for about 285 million euros ($361...
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Ottomans@postcards by Seyhun Binzet
Download Exhibit BrochureMavi Boncuk | Istanbul has always been a metropolis where different religious and ethnic communities live together, and this unique diversity is clearly reflected in the...
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Fehim Paşa and Marguerite
Margarethe FEHIM-PASCHA ( Charmante inconnue....)The old Corcordia Theatre in Pera, Constantinople (that burnt-down in 1913, now occupied by the St. Antoine Catholic Church) was the venue for many...
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Miss Morgan's Plight
Mavi Boncuk | Circus Princess Banished. CONSTANTINOPLE. March 3.—Princess Fehim has been banished from Turkey by the Sultan's order. She came here as circus rider, an American girl, the dashing...
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Fehim Paşa and Marguerite | Part 2
Mavi Boncuk | Esvapçıbaşızade Yaver-i Hususi-i Şehriyari Fehim Paşa (b. istanbul 1873- lynched near Inegol, Bursa 1908). His father Esvapçıbaşı İsmet Bey was a milk brother to the sultan. Fehim...
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Word Origin | cadi, cadaloz, büyü, şeytan, iblis,albız, ifrit, cin, hortlak
It is We Who created you and gave you shape; then We bade the angels prostrate to Adam, and they prostrate; not so Iblis; He refused to be of those who prostrate.(Allah) said: "What prevented thee from...
View ArticleArticle | Of Ottoman Ghosts, Vampires and Sorcerers
Mavi Boncuk | Of Ottoman Ghosts, Vampires and Sorcerers: An Old Discussion Disinterred by Marinos Sariyannis Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute for Mediterranean Studies,...
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Report to Interior Ministry | Margarethe Fehim Pascha Postcards
Pictured Margarethe Fehim Pascha Postcard | Divided back. Written on back and posted from Barcelona on 1 March 1908. 10 cents Spanish stamp affixed. Report to Interior Ministry on the sale of...
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Margarethe Fehim Pascha Postcard | Photo Postcards
If you are curious about where some postcards were printed.Mavi Boncuk | Margarethe Fehim Pascha Postcard | Photobrom, G.m.b.H. , Wien [1]Photobrom generally printed touristic cards and more risque...
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The rascally Turks... | Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel Book II.
Mavi Boncuk | The rascally Turks had broached me upon a spit all larded like a rabbit, for I was so dry and meagre that otherwise of my flesh they would have made but very bad meat, and in this manner...
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The Way Cookie Crumbled for Ülker
Mavi Boncuk | United Biscuits, the British maker of Jaffa Cakes goes to Yildiz Holding of Turkey for about £2 billion ($3.2 billion). United Biscuits posted sales of £1.1 billion in 2013. The company...
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Hakimiyet bila kaydü şart Milletindir
Mavi Boncuk | Hakimiyet bila kaydü şart Milletindir | Egemenlik, kayıtsız şartsız MilletindirThis principle is written on the wall behind the chairman of the General Assembly Hall in the Grand National...
View ArticleArticle | The Iraq Troop-Basing Question and the New Middle East
Mavi Boncuk | The Iraq Troop-Basing Question and the New Middle EastJames F. Jeffrey[1]http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PolicyNote21_Jeffrey2.pdfSeer also:Behind the U.S....
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1951 | Return of the Exile
Mavi Boncuk |From the Magazine | Foreign NewsReturn of the ExilePosted Monday, Jul. 9, 1951Carloads of funeral wreaths preceded the flag-draped coffin through Istanbul's streets to the Monument of...
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Under consular protection...
Mavi Boncuk |Harral, Horace -- Engraver[Ottoman Empire, 1870s.]From Graphic. Illustrated Newspapers, Ltd., 1869-) .Mid-Manhattan Library / Picture CollectionCaptions: "Under consular protection :...
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Word origin | Pala, Palet, Zırh, Palyaco, Soytarı
Mavi Boncuk |Pala: shovel, oar, scoop, scull, spade EN. "küreğin yassı kısmı" [ Kahane & Tietze, The Lingua Franca in the Levant (1574) : sudan ateş çıkarur şiddet-i darbla palası ] from italian...
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Balkan War Cartoons
Mavi Boncuk |The tensions in the Balkan region are colourfully captured in this cartoon from Christmas 1912 by the artist Udo J. Keppler[1]The Balkan war that was ‘practically over’ at the end of April...
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