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Rock Paintings on Mount Latmos
The Beşparmak Dağları, known as “Latmos” in antiquity, is one of the most fascinating and archaeologically richest regions in western Turkey. As early as prehistoric times the Latmos was already...
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Napoli Award for Panno per la polvere | Toz Bezi
All winners of the XVIII edition of the Naples Film Festival 2016Vesuvio Award to "Enclave" of Serbia RadovanovicNext prize! to Turkish "Dust Cloth" Ahu OzturkFor New Italian Cinema "Wide Blue...
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Article | Who Will Take Al-Bab
Mavi Boncuk |WHO WILL TAKE AL-BAB? By Fabrice BalanchePolicyWatch 2700 October 5, 2016 SOURCEThe last remaining Islamic State stronghold in eastern Syria is poised to fall, and given the potentially...
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1856 | Melville in Istanbul
Mavi Boncuk |Herman Melville wrote about his visit to Istanbul in 1856. It was a few years after the publication of Moby-Dick. He wrote in his diary: “All day the fog held on. Very thick & damp...
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One Beato ...Two Beato "Robertson, Beato and Co"
Mavi Boncuk |Antonio Beato (after 1832 – 1906), also known as Antoine Beato, was a British and Italian photographer. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, views of the architecture and landscapes...
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Turks as Expats
Data from more than 2.1 million members of InterNations (www.internations.org), the world’s largest network for expats, shows that in May 2016 the USA was the most frequent country of residence for...
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Antalya IFF | Competition Feature Films
Mavi Boncuk |'48 Kavşağı (Junction 48 / Yönetmen: Udi Aloni - İsrail, Almanya, ABD)Açık Kapı (La Puerta Abierta / Yönetmen: Marina Seresesky - İspanya)Baba ve Oğul (Ostatnia Rodzina / Yönetmen: Jan P....
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Mary Ellen Mark | Redux
"Mark was living in Turkey[1] as a Fulbright Fellow when she photographed this girl. 'It's obviously a very seductive gesture,' she says of the girl's stance. 'She's almost a woman.' The contradiction...
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Ernst Adolf Julius Guido von Usedom (1854-1925)
Mavi Boncuk |Ernst Adolf Julius Guido von Usedom(b. Quanditten, Ostpreußen (Sinjavino, Kaliningrad) 02.10.1854 - d. Schwerin, Germany 24.02.1925)Königreich Preußen: Generaladj SM, Sonder-Kdo in der...
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Karbala 1377 | Caferis in Turkey
The battle of Karbala, where Ali’s son Hussein and his relatives and supporters were killed on the 10th day of Muharrem in 682 (year 61 in the Islamic calendar) by the forces of Yezid, son of the...
View ArticleThe Institute of Turkish Studies | Grant Recipients 2016-2017
Mavi Boncuk |Recipients: 2016-2017The Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) is proud to announce its grantees for academic year 2016-2017. Please join us in congratulating them. ITS has awarded the below...
View ArticleYemek Sanatları Merkezi (YESAM) Lecture Series
Mavi Boncuk | Lectures Video Library Turkish Cultural Foundation Yemek Sanatları Merkezi (YESAM) Lecture Series“Traditional Turkish Confectionery - Desserts” - Priscilla Mary Isin"Traditional Turkish...
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Graphic Novel | Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
Mavi Boncuk | Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq Hardcover – October 4, 2016by Sarah Glidden[1] Cartoonist Sarah Glidden accompanies her two friends―reporters and founders of a...
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Kalamış | Vecihi Hürkuş Aviation School
Mavi Boncuk |Kalamış | Vecihi Hürkuş[1] Tayyare Mektebi[1] Vecihi Hürkuş (6 January 1896 – 16 July 1969) Born in Istanbul, he fought during World War I. When he returned to Yeşilköy he was injured....
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Sold in Eminonu | Finkelstein, Bobicki
Mavi Boncuk |Léon Bobické-Baghché Kapou, Agopian Han, Stamboul, Constantinople, Turquie 1925
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1911 Galata Bridge
Mavi Boncuk | The fourth Galata Bridge was built in 1912 by the German firm Hüttenwerk Oberhausen AG (later MAN) for 350,000 gold liras. This floating bridge was 466 m long and 25 m wide. It is the...
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Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan from Kagizman
The singer and songwriter Bob Dylan[1], one of the world’s most influential rock musicians, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for “having created new poetic expressions within the...
View ArticleShowcase: Tosun Bayrak's Exhibition 'Fasa Fiso'
Mavi Boncuk | The artist Tosun Bayrak[1] was known as the "Turk who surprises everyone in America". The Shock Art practitioner is now being celebrated with an exhibition called Fasa Fiso[2] in...
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Galata | Theatre d'Amerique
Mavi Boncuk |Theatre D'Amerique managed by Sotiraki, then by. Spiro Croucli. 1892. 212 Grand rue de. Galata. SOURCE: Adam Mestyan Dissertation | 'A garden with mellow fruits of refinement'– Music...
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