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More Grand Rue de Pera or Cadde-i Kebir
Mavi Boncuk | 1932 «Elhamra» Ejderin Kızı, Anna May Wong.1961
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Memories of Grand Rue de Pera | Part 2
Mavi Boncuk |ISTANBUL| Turkey|Turquie - BAZAR du LEVANT 388, Grand Rue de Pera1912 Near Tailor Strongulo[1][1] Vecihe (Ilmen)[*] hanım, (Mustafa Kemalin eşi Latife hanımın kardeşi) Mustafa Kemalin...
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Deutsche Post in Ottoman Era
Pictured Deutsche Post Galata Office.Mavi Boncuk |On March 1, 1870, the Norddeutscher Postbezirk (i.e. the postal service of the North German Confederation) opened its first office in Constantinople...
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Salle Sponek | Grand Rue de Pera 246
Mavi Boncuk | 1896In 1895 Lumière introduced his Cinématograph. In 1896 the first film showing by Monseigneur Bertrand took place in the Yildiz Palace of Istanbul. News events were covered by all early...
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TR Lira and Euro vs. USD | One Year Change
Mavi Boncuk |TLR One year change ( 132.5 %)Date Price Open High Low Oct 30, 2015 2.9153 2.9372 2.9414 2.9097 Oct 30, 2014 2.1988 2.2143 2.2267...
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Book | The Ottoman Endgame
Mavi Boncuk |The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923. By Sean McMeekin.[1]Hardcover: 576 pages Publisher: Penguin Press (October 13, 2015) Language:...
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The Turkish General Election of November 2015
November 1, 2015 General Election | Provinces Map.ResultsPartyVotes%MPsAKP23,669,93349.48%317CHP12,108,80125.31%134HDP5,144,10810.75%59MHP5,691,03511.90%40Others2.56%0Total100.00%550June 7, 2015...
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EU Watch | Trench Warfare
Mavi Boncuk |The town of Cizre, like Silopi located in Şırnak province, in declaring self-government in their statement of self-government and started digging trenches using municipal heavy equipment...
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From a Cartoon to a Cover
Mavi Boncuk | Cumhuriyet Newspaper cartoon by Musa Kart and Nokta Weekly cover alluding to the beginning of civil war a day after the recent general elections.
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Bristol Hotel
Bristol Hotel is now The Pera Museum,[1] housed behind the Neoclassical façade of the old hotel, which once overlooked the Petits Champs de Mort(Küçük Mezarlık).Mavi Boncuk |[1] The Pera Museum opened...
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Petit Champ des Morts de Pera, Constantinople
Mavi Boncuk |"The Petit Champ-des-Morts, Pera" engraved by J.T.Willmore after a picture by W.H.Bartlett, published in The Beauties of the Bosphorus, 1838. Steel engraved print with recent hand colour....
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In Memoriam | Gülten Akın (1933-2015)
Turkey’s ‘greatest living poet’ Gulten Akin dies at 82 on November 4, 2015No Comment - Gulten Akin was one of the most influential poets in Turkey, with many of her poems translated into other...
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The Sniper Rifle Known as Kanas
From News " Diyarbakır ilinin Silvan ilçesinde bu sabah saatlerinde PKK mensubu teröristler tarafından suikast silahı olarak tabir edilen Kanas keskin nişancı tüfeği ile başından vurularak ağır şekilde...
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The Medici Award to Hakan Günday | Prix du livre étranger à l'écrivain turc...
You won’t find English translations of Hakan Günday’s[1] work in bookstores yet, but he’s nevertheless made a name for himself as the author of seven critically acclaimed novels since 2000....
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