The Yıldırım Cabinet
Mavi Boncuk |The Yıldırım Cabinet is the 65th government of the Turkish Republic, which was inaugurated on 24 May 2016. He vowed to immediately start working to change Turkey's current constitution,...
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Word Origin | Ekmek, somun, çörek, pide, poğaça, lavaş, hamur
Turkish flatbread traditionally prepared during Ramadan.(Ramazan pidesi). Alan Davidson in The Oxford Companion to Food (OUP: Oxford 1999) states that Northern Italian dialects transformed the word...
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Word origin | Abluka Redux
Mavi Boncuk |Abluka: Block, blockade[1], stoppage, jam; obstacle; chunk, piece, block, stop; bar; obstruct; hinder EN; abloka [ Bianchi, Dictionnaire Turc-Français, 1851] fromIT blocco bahriyede bir...
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Deutscher Bundestag | Armenian Resolution
Erinnerung und Gedenken an den Völkermord an den Armeniern vor 100 JahrenRemembrance and commemoration of the Armenian genocide 100 years agoDeutscher Bundestag Drucksache 18/7648 18. WahlperiodeMavi...
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Karlovy Vary 2016 | My Father’s Wings
Mavi Boncuk | The annual Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is known for debuting some of the world’s best multinational feature films and documentaries. From July 1-9, various films including...
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Word Origin | Kuruş, Mangır, Mangiz, Para ,Kayme, Kaime Redux
Mavi Boncuk Copper coin (mangir) dated 1564 (AH 942) from the period of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I (1494-1566) Front of the coin has a geometric motif. The back says "... KOSTANTİNİYE SENE 942"....
View ArticleBundestag Armenian Resolution | Karin Karakaşlı Translation
Read German Text in PDF http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/18/076/1807648.pdfMavi Boncuk |CDU/CSU, SPD ve Birlik 90/Yeşiller’in Alman Meclis’ine sunduğu tasarı önergesi1915-1916 döneminde Ermenilere...
View ArticleŞapparigçe - Alman Usulü by Hrant Dink
Mavi Boncuk |Şapparigçe[1] - Alman Usulü*Ermeni Sorunu konusunda Alman Parlamentosu’nun oybirliğiyle almış olduğu karar, Fransız Senatosu’nda ya da diğer parlamentolarda kabul edilmiş olanlara...
View ArticlePlenarprotokoll 18/173 Deutscher Bundestag
Mavi Boncuk | Plenarprotokoll 18/173 Deutscher Bundestag Stenografischer Bericht 173. Sitzung Berlin, Donnerstag, den 2. Juni 2016 PDF LINK | FULL SENATE RECORD PDF LINK | ARMENIAN RESOLUTION RECORD
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Country Reports on Terrorism 2015
Country Reports on Terrorism 2105Country Reports on Terrorism 2015 is submitted in compliance with Title 22 of the United States Code, Section 2656f (the “Act”), which requires the Department of State...
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Empty Seats and Empty Hopes from Bundestag
Voted by show of hands of around 250 members only. Out of 631 [1]members who knows who attended. Not Legal or political. Non binding theatro-political action. House speaker Norbert Lammert spoke of a...
View ArticleDave Brubeck Quartet "Blue Rondo à la Turk,"
Dave Brubeck Quartet "Blue Rondo à la Turk,"[1]Mavi Boncuk |"...He was most famous for “Take Five,” which the Dave Brubeck Quartet recorded in 1959, for their album “Time Out.” There’s a story behind...
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Harry S. Truman wants to go to Constantinople
Letter, Harry S. Truman to Mary Ethel Noland, January 20, 1919. Correspondence File, Noland Papers.HARRY S. TRUMAN, 33rd President of the United States, from 1905 to 1911, served in the Missouri...
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1948 | Declassified Kurdish Report
Mavi Boncuk | 1948 | Declassified Kurdish Report See PDF
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Declassified | US Support for Kurds in Iraq
US Support for Kurds in Iraq | Memorandum for Ambassador Helms Re: Kurdish assistance.Mavi Boncuk |See also 6 page letter of support
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Staging the Ottoman Turk | British Drama, 1656–1792
"Undoubtedly a major scholarly contribution to the discussion and analysis of the European perceptions and stereotyping of the Turkish image and the Turkish Orient... A very useful study that will...
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Sinan, the Wright Architect
"Less[1] is only more where more is no good." Frank Lloyd WrightMavi Boncuk |Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his...
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Istanbul | The Spirit of Mediterranean Places by Michel Butor
"I woke up in the train, which was still moving. I lifted the curtain and looked out. I had never in my life seen such desolation. Rain was falling on the Thrace plateau, where not a single tree grew,...
View ArticleTurkish Fish Names in Armenian
Mavi Boncuk | Compiled by Dr Sarkis Adam Kırlangıç: ԾԻԾԵՌՆԱԿԱՁՈՒԿ (Dzidzernagadzug)Levrek: ԼԱԲՐԱԿ (Laprag)Lüfer: ԼԻՒՖԷՐ (Lüfer)Mavi balık ԿԱՊՈՒՅՏ ՁՈՒԿ(Gabuyd Dzug)Mercan: ՄԱՐՋԱՆ ՁՈՒԿ(Marcan...
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Kurds | Memo for Kissinger from Saunders June 7, 1972
Mavi Boncuk | LINK to Document from Nixon Library | Memo for Kissinger from Saunders June 7, 1972[1][1] Harold Henry Saunders was the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs...
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