U.S. Advisory Aid to Turkey: The Hines-Kemmerer Mission, 1933-1934
Mavi Boncuk | U.S. Advisory Aid to Turkey: The Hines-Kemmerer Mission, 1933-1934Early in 1933 the Turkish Government, via its Ambassador in Washington, Ahmet Muhtar, approached the U.S. Department of...
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1910 | Map of eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and western Persia (ethnographical)
Islamic State militants have abducted as many as 90 Assyrian Christians, including women and children, after overrunning several small villages in northeast Syria. They are the descendants of Hakkari...
View ArticleWord Origin | Tuğla, Kiremit, Duvar
Mavi Boncuk |Tuğla: brick EN[1] adobe[2]; tuvla "pişmiş topraktan yapı kalıbı" [ Filippo Argenti, Regola del Parlare Turco, 1533] ; tuvla [ Evliya Çelebi, Seyahatname, 1680]"taş binā ile ve kırmızī...
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Word Origin | Arsenal, Tersane, Fabrika
The London football club (1886) was named for the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, where the original players worked.Mavi Boncuk | Tersane: arsenal EN; [Kahane & Tietze, The Lingua Franca in the Levant,...
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In Memoriam | Yaşar Kemal (1923-2015)
"The Turkish writer Yaşar Kemal, who has died aged 91, found fame after the publication of his first novel, Ince Memed (1955), translated into English as Memed, My Hawk (1961). It became known around...
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Yaşar Kemal Bibliography
Yasar Kemal at his home in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2008. Photograph: Yoray Liberman"The Turkish writer Yaşar Kemal, who has died aged 91, found fame after the publication of his first novel, Ince Memed...
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Book | Too Young for a Forgettable War by William Edward Alli
Too Young for a Forgettable War:Second Edition Paperback – January 23, 2013 by William Edward AlliPaperback: 388 pages | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2 edition (January 23,...
View ArticleWord Origin | Averaj, Aylak, Avare
Mavi Boncuk | Averaj: from Arabic ˁawār عوار hasar, kusur TR; Damage, fault EN; Average EN[1]; "ortalama" TR [ Cumhuriyet - gazete, 1938]Futbolun doğduğu memleket olan İngiltere'nin kullanmakta...
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Adalet Emina Pee
See her in a video. "Bei Achmed Beh": Im Nachtclub mit der Nazi-Führung [1]Mavi Boncuk | Turkish oriental dancer and actress. Adalet Emine Pee [2] was born in February 29, 1910 as Emine Adalet in...
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Tilda Kemal olarak bilinen çevirmen
Abdülhamid'in baştabibi[1] Jak Mandil [2][4] Paşa'nın[3] torunu ve babasi Osmanli Bankasi direktoru olan Henri H. Mandil'in kızı ve yazar Yaşar Kemal'in 50 yıllık hayat arkadaşı Tilda (Mathilda) Kemal...
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HOŞGÖRÜ TOPLUMUNDA ERMENİLER CİLT I
Mavi Boncuk | HOŞGÖRÜ TOPLUMUNDA ERMENİLER CİLT I PDF Link 7.5MB
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American Garage, Pangaldi
Mavi Boncuk | Levant Trade Review 1927 ad. Edgar B.Howard listed as a Sheffield Scientific School1909 graduate (Bryn Mawr, Pa, Agr.) in Alumni Directory of Yale University: Graduates and Non-graduates...
View ArticleThesis |The role of the tobacco trade in Turkish-American relations, 1923-29
Mavi Boncuk | The role of the tobacco trade in Turkish-American relations, 1923-29. Thesis LinkRobert Carey Goodman[1] Goodman, Robert Carey, "The role of the tobacco trade in Turkish-American...
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Dresden | Yenidze Cigarette Factory Redux
There are a number of Islamic-type buildings in Germany influenced by the growing interest in Orientalism in 19th century. The most famous example is the water-pumping station at Potsdam (1841-5) built...
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Tobacco Workers in "Yenidze" Factory
Mavi Boncuk | Orientalische Tabak- und Zigarettenfabrik "Yenidze" (1907-1909). Frauen beim Zigarettendrehen unter Aufsicht in einem Arbeitssaal mit über 200 Arbeitsplätzen. | Oriental tobacco and...
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Tobacco Workers at Cibali Factory
Mavi Boncuk |Article | The Régie Monopoly and Tobacco Workers in Late Ottoman Istanbul by Can Nacar
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Agop Matosyan Matbaası
İNCİLİ ŞERİF-AHDİ CEDİD | AGOP MATOSYAN MATBAASI İstanbul 1878İNCİLİ ŞERİF-AHDİ CEDİD | AGOP MATOSYAN MATBAASI İstanbul 1895 2+600 pages 16x12 cm. (shown above)İNCİLİ ŞERİF-AHDİ CEDİD | AGOP MATOSYAN...
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Levi Parsons (1792-1822) and Pliny Fisk (1792-1825)
See also Mavi Boncuk post:Cyrus Hamlin and Armenian AwakeningMavi Boncuk |Parsons, Levi (1792-1822)American missionary to the Near EastBorn into a pastor’s family in Goshen, Massachusetts, Parsons...
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Halep Pharmacy
Mavi Boncuk |BEŞİR KEMAL,(Pelin), Türk eczacı (Halep 1876-İstanbul 1942). Mektebi tıbbiyei mülkiye'nin (sivil tıbbiye) eczacılık bölümünü bitirdi (1898). Hamdi Bey ile birlikte açtığı Halep...
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20 years After | The 1995 Gazi Quarter riots
See also " Ders Gibi Gazi Dosyasi"Mavi Boncuk | The 1995 Gazi Quarter riots (Turkish: Gazi Mahallesi olayları) were events that occurred in March 1995 at the Gazi Quarter, a working-class neighborhood...
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