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Lucescu Days are Here Again
Mavi Boncuk |Mircea Lucescu to succeed Fatih Terim The Turkish Football Federation has announced Wednesday that Romanian manager Mircea Lucescu will be the national team's new head coach. The signing...
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AKM Redux | PART 1
AKM Redux | PART 1 (1946-2008)Yine...yeni...yeniden...Mavi Boncuk | Original 1946 (Feridun Kip and Rüknettin Güney) design and the first structure.Pictured | Existing AKM[1] Tabanlıoğlu Architects...
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AKM Redux | PART 2 Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Mavi Boncuk | AKM Redux | PART 2 Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture 2015 proposal
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AKM Redux | PART 3
AKM Redux | PART 3Red footprint extended to yellow area in a new site made 7 times bigger with the addition of new parcels. The 2015 proposal by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture used a similar...
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AKM Redux | SALT Ataturk Cultural Center, 1946-1977
During a discussion on the mosque soon to be built on the Çamlıca Hill and the future of Taksim Square, some of the participants and the audience constantly mention these two opposing groups that...
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Word Origin | Money Units Redux
Mavi Boncuk |Lira TR [1]Kuruş TR [2]Dolar TR [3][1] lira (n.) Italian monetary unit, 1610s, from Italian lira, literally "pound," from Latin libra "pound (unit of weight);" see Libra, and compare...
View Articleİstanbul 100 - 100th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Foundation of the...
Mavi Boncuk |İstanbul 100 - 100th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Foundation of the Hungarian Scientific Institute of Constantinople - Archbishop of Budapest, Archbishop of Ybl Miklós Building and...
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György Kmety as Ismail Pasha
Mavi Boncuk | György Kmety as Ismail Pasha in the Ottoman Army during the Crimean War, photographed by Roger Fenton in 1855.Isma'il Pasha in Ottoman military uniformBorn 24 May 1813Felsőpokorágy (today...
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Word origin | Racon
Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Eğer racon kesilecekse bu raconu bizzat kendim keserim."Arkadaş sen hiç ölümün gölgesinde özgürlüğü yaşadınmı kahpesine kurşun yağdırdınmı hiç bir garibanın elinden...
View ArticlePoetry Translation Challenge | Han Duvarlari by Faruk Nafiz Çamlibel
HAN WALLS Dark horses whinnied, leather whip crackedThe wagon hesitated a moment butThen came to life with six springs underneathCaravansaries passed before my eyesI was going, in me feeling of...
View ArticlePoetry Challenge | Best in Turkish Poetry
Poetry Challenge | Best in Turkish PoetryTranslation anyone!Mavi Boncuk |Orhan Veli Kanık: İstanbul'u Dinliyorum, Cımbızlı Şiir, Dedikodu, Güzel HavalarCemal Süreya: FotoğrafFaruk Nafiz Çamlıbel: Han...
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In Memoriam | Feyyaz Berker (1925-20170
Mavi Boncuk | Feyyaz Berker (b. October 7, 1925, Mersin, Turkey- d. August 22, 2017, Istanbul, Turkey) was a Turkish businessman. He was one of the three co-founders and current owners of the Tekfen...
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Oscar'a Akin Var + Cannes Review
The nominations for the 2017 Academy Awards will be announced on Jan. 23, 2018. The ceremony takes place March 4. Mavi Boncuk |Fatih Akin’s Cannes hit “In the Fade” has been chosen as Germany’s...
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Ordular! İlk hedefiniz Akdenizdir. İleri!
Mavi Boncuk |Garp Cephesi Kumandanlığı Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi OrdularıAfyonkarahisar- Dumlupınar büyük meydan muharebesinde zalim ve mağrur bir ordunun anâsır-ı asliyesini inanılmayacak kadar az...
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Aylav You Academy Awards
Turkey Selects True-Life Drama ‘Ayla’ as Foreign-Language Oscar Entry. The nominations for the 2017 Academy Awards will be announced on Jan. 23, 2018. The ceremony takes place March 4.Turkey has...
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Word Origins | Cani, Cinayet, Katil, Ölüm, Ömür, Günah, intihar
Mavi Boncuk | Word Origins search on the Vatan/Filiz murder suicide.Cani: Killer EN [1] cani [ Daî, Nevhatü'l-Uşşak, 1647]from AR cāni جانٍ suç işleyen from AR canā جنا suç işlediCinayet: Murder EN...
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1855 | Mickiewicz in Pera
See also: Adam Mickiewicz, sa vie et son oeuvre Ladislas Mickiewicz Nouvelle Librairie Parisienne, 1888 - 382 pages A good source for Armand Lévy letters and descriprions of Istanbul.Mavi Boncuk |Adam...
View ArticleArticle | Is Turkey's Rapprochement with Iran and Russia Sustainable?
Mavi Boncuk | Is Turkey's Rapprochement with Iran and Russia Sustainable? SOURCESoner CagaptaySoner Cagaptay, the Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington...
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Article | Revisiting the 30th August / 30 Ağustos'u İncelemek
Mavi Boncuk |Revisiting the 30th August at the light of the 15th MayThe commemorations of the victory on August 30 are widespread every year, but too few Turks know today that August 30 does not mean...
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