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Summer of 1972 | Ahmet Yamak House
Pictured Sundura Today.Fortyone years ago during the Summer of 1972, after a late arrival to Sarp Otel Hopa[1] in the Eastern Black Sea province of Artvin, the very next day I found myself in Sundura...
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Hold It Right There
Mavi Boncuk |Entire world - Prison Population Rates per 100,000 of the national populationSource1United States of America7168Russian...
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Theodor Herzl | The Missionary Playwright 1895-99
Herzl on a cruising boat in Constantinople - 1898.January 20, 1902: Herzl writes to Israel Zangwil and Joseph Cowen and describes the financial plans regarding Turkey. January 25: Herzl proposes to...
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Herzl | Road to Holly Land
Herzl with soldiers of the Turkish Guard in Crete - 1898.Herzl and Zionist Delegation on a ship on their way to Jaffa - 1898.Herzl and the Zionist Delegation at the market in Smyrna, Turkey 1898.Mavi...
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Top25 Foursquare Check Ins in Istanbul
Mavi Boncuk |Location | Category | Check-in | VisitsBağdat CaddesiOGO926.277136.069Boğaziçi KöprüsüBridge873.285166.582İstanbul Atatürk Airport (IST)Airport781.384256.947KadıköyOGO588.519119.076Sabiha...
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Erdem's "Singing Women" in TIFF 2013
Erdem's "Singing Women" in TIFF 2013Mavi Boncuk |Singing Women | SARKI SÖYLEYEN KADINLARFrance / Germany / Turkey 2013Runtime:120 minutesFestival - Special Presentation | High-profile premieres and the...
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Turkish Cinema 2012
Mavi Boncuk | FULL LENGTH FEATURE FILMS CATALOGUE Turkish Cinema 2012 PDF
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The Exceptional Postcard Collection of Adolf Feller
THERE ARE (+300) RARE PIECES FROM THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE COLLECTION.Mavi Boncuk | The exceptional postcard collection of Adolf Feller. Adolf Feller (b. May 11 1879 in Bümpliz ; d. 4 October 1931 in...
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Epigraphs of ancient Turkic people discovered in Mongolia
Mavi Boncuk | Ancient Turkic inscriptions discovered in Mongolia, which should be read from right to left (Provided by Takashi Osawa)Two massive slabs of stone inscribed in ancient Turkic script have...
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The Liebig Trade Cards | Turkish Subjects
Mavi Boncuk |Liebig[1] produced many illustrated advertising products: table cards, menucards, children games, free trade card sets, calendars, posters, posterstamps, paper and other toys. These were...
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The Economist Article: Correction and Sorry!
The Economist Articlel: Correction and Sorry!Mavi Boncuk | In last week’s Turkish story, we wrongly wrote that prosecutors, rather than judges, had handed down the verdicts in the Ergenekon trial. And...
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Place Names in East Before 1915
Place Names in East Before 1915Maps with Latin alphabet for place names in East and South East of Ottoman Domain. Very handy source from Mavi Boncuk Archives re scanned in detail.Mavi Bonck | Download...
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Word Origin | Tencere, tava
While some people bang pots and pans to protest recent events in Turkey, it is time to dig into the word origins once more.Mavi Boncuk |TencereMeninski, Thesaurus [1680], facsimile print Simurg 2000....
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Adana Golden Boll | Altin Koza 2013
Mavi Boncuk |Adana Golden Boll | Altin Koza 2013[1]Competition Feature FilmsThe festival is scheduled for 16-22 September, 2013and Beki Probst[2] will head the jury.Mustafa Kemal Uzun "Çanakkale Yolun...
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Interview with Beki Probst
Mavi Boncuk | Interview with Beki Probst, Head of the European Film Market in Berlin.
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Huns in Middle East
Mavi Boncuk | In 395, a Hun raid across the Caucasus mountains devastated Armenia, there they captured Erzurum, besieged Edessa and Antioch, even reaching Tyre in Syria.
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Montreal World Film Festival 2013 | THE LONG WAY HOME
Mavi Boncuk |THE LONG WAY HOME2013, Colour, Turkey, First Films World Competition PRODUCTION TEAMDirector : Alphan EseliScreenwriter : Serdar Tantekin, Alphan E?eliCinematographer : Hayk...
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Montreal World Film Festival 2013 | TIME OF THE LAKE
Mavi Boncuk |TIME OF THE LAKE2013, Colour, Turkey, First Films World Competition PRODUCTION TEAMDirector : Cafer ÖzgülScreenwriter : Cafer ÖzgülCinematographer : Ali ÖzelEditor : Erkan TekemenCast :...
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