Article | Nationalism Meets the Sex Trade: İstanbul’s District of Beyoğlu/Pera
Nationalism Meets the Sex Trade: İstanbul’s District of Beyoğlu/Pera During the Early Twentieth Century by İrvin Cemil Schick [1]Paper presented at the Amherst and Hampshire Colleges Workshop on...
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Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport Overtook Frankfurt
Mavi Boncuk | Istanbul’s Ataturk airport overtook Frankfurt to enter the European top three for the first time in 2015 as Turkish Airlines continued its rapid expansion and strikes at Deutsche...
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Somerset House Press Release | The Museum of Innocence
Innocence of Memories opens in select UK cinemas on 29 January by Soda Pictures. Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Museum of Innocence is published by Faber & Faber. For press enquiries and images, please...
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Word origin | Kalleş, Kurnaz, Korkak
Mavi Boncuk |Kalleş: treacher , cheat, EN[1] [ Ömer b. Mezîd, Mecmuatü'n-nezâir, 1437] Bize helvā koyalar mı müflis u ḳallāşlar From FA ḳallāş قلّاش kurnaz, kandırıcıKurnaz: crafty, cunning, shrewd EN...
View ArticleTurkish Film Week in April | "Ivy" and "Baskin" in DC
Mavi Boncuk |MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016Turkish Film Week: "Ivy"Monday, April 11, 7 pmThis screening is held at Landmark E Street Cinema.In person: Tolga Karaçelik, director, and Nadir Saribacak, actor...
View ArticleZsebemben sok kicsi alma van | Cebimde çok küçük elma var
Mavi Boncuk |Turkish words in the Hungarian languageThere are many little apples in my pocket.Zsebemben sok kicsi alma van. (Hungarian) Cebimde çok küçük elma var. (Turkish) Hungarians were in contact...
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Book | A Dog of Constantinople
Mavi Boncuk | LINK to Full Book A dog of Constantinople, by Izora C. Chandler. Illus. by the ... Chandler, Izora Cecilia, d. 1906.
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NOTOS 56 Names 40 Turkish Films of the Century
Mavi Boncuk |Yüz Yılın 40 FilmiTop 20 of NOTOS 40[1] from Feb-March 2016 issue1 Yol (Şerif Gören, 1982)2 Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)3 Umut (Yılmaz Güney, 1970)4 Sevmek Zamanı...
View ArticleBook | Told In The Coffee House: Turkish Tales Cyrus Adler & Allan Ramsay
Mavi Boncuk |Told In The Coffee House: Turkish Tales Cyrus Adler & Allan RamsayArkansas-born educator and scholar Cyrus Adler had the opportunity to spend a significant amount of time in and around...
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In Memoriam | Filiz Bingölçe (1965-2016)
Queen of Argot[*] passed away.[*] argo TR; argot EN (n.) The earliest known record of the term argot in this context was in a 1628 document. 1860, from French argot (17c.) "the jargon of Paris rogues...
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IMBD | Top 40 Turkish Films
Mavi Boncuk |1. Hababam Sınıfı (Ertem Eğilmez, 1975) IMDB: 9.52. Tosun Paşa (Kartal Tibet, 1976) IMDB: 9.13. Hababam Sınıfı Sınıfta Kaldı (Ertem Eğilmez, 1976) IMDB: 9.04. Süt Kardeşler (Ertem Eğilmez,...
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Word Origin | Dayak, Kötek, Mariz, Tekme, Tokat, Yumruk
Mavi Boncuk |Dayak: oldTR: [ Uygurca Budist metinler, 1000]eḏgüke tegmeklik yük yüḏmekniŋ tayakı tétir [(imana) iyiye ulaşma çabasının yükünü taşımanın desteği denir] oldTR: [ Kutadgu Bilig,...
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1902 Bulgaria | Ottoman Foundations Report
Mavi Boncuk | 1902 Bulgaria | Ottoman Foundations ReportLINK
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Orhan Pamuk's new Book | The Red-Haired Woman
Mavi Boncuk |The newest book by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk hits bookstores on Tuesday, marking the Nobel Literature Prize-winner's 10th novel.“Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın” (The Red-Haired Woman), published by...
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Ottoman History Podcast | Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire
Mavi Boncuk | Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire | Donald Quataert & Ryan Gingeras [1]This episode offers an interview by Ryan Gingeras with Donald Quartaert in 2008 about his monograph...
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Word origin | Zenci
"You're a fool nigger[1], and the worst day's work Pa ever did was to buy you," said Scarlett slowly. ... There, she thought, I've said "nigger" and Mother wouldn't like that at all. [Margaret...
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Film | Cold of Kalandar (2015)
Palmarès du festival d'Angers 2016. Mention spéciale du jury (long métrage européen): Cold of Kalandar de Mustafa Kara “Kalandar Soğuğu” (Cold of Kalandar), a new dramatic feature by Turkish director...
View ArticleKürt atasözleri | Gotnê pêşyê Kurda | Pırsên pêşyê Kurda
SEE ALSO: Malmîsanij. Folklorê Ma Ra Çend Numûney. İstanbul: yy, 1991. 19,5x13 cm. 319 sf. Mesut Özcan. Dersim (Zaza) Atasözleri. İstanbul: Kaynak Yayınları, 1992. 19,5x13,5 cm. 56 sf. ISBN...
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Profile | DHKP-C and Dursun Karataş
See: Road to DHKP-C | Charting Revolutionary LeftMavi Boncuk |Dursun Karataş (b. 25 March 1952 Elazığ, Turkey - d. 11 August 2008 Arnhem, Netherlands) was the founding leader of the Revolutionary...
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