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Discusses the history, geography, daily life, culture, and customs of the country that lies in both Asia and Europe. ... Read more

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Culture Wise Turkey is essential reading for anyone planning to visit or live in Turkey, whether for business or pleasure, for a few days holiday or a lifetime. It is guaranteed to help newcomers avoid cultural and social gaffes; make friends and influence people; and enhance their understanding of Turkey and the Turkish people. Printed in full color. ... Read more

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The first English translation of Rumi's entire Divan contained in 22 volumes. The Divan-i Kebir, or Divan-i Shams, is the anthology of Rumi's poems from the time he met Shams (1244) until the day he died (1277).

He recited (he did not write) poems day and night, and four assigned people, called Katib-i esrar ("secret secretary"), followed and recorded him. These 44,000+ verses are the best and most beautiful explanations of the secret of life, love, humanity, God, and more. They also serve as historical sketches of 13th Century life in Konya, Anatolia. ... Read more

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This is the book that teachers and others working with Turkish speaking children and young people have long needed. The author’s academic rigor combined with his insider’s view of the communities’ families, culture and work patterns affords readers real understanding of a community which has developed its own diaspora over the last half century but about which there is little research and scant learning support.

Part 1 outlines the backgrounds of the Turkish speakers - their immigration andemployment patterns - and examines their community and economic activities in some depth. Part 2 is devoted to the children’s language and the ways in which they use and acquire both Turkish and English in a range of real-life situations in their families and family businesses, and in their communities. From his analysis of these processes the author identifies what teachers need to know to develop these children’s language skills further at school and so enhance their academic attainment.

"Talking Turkey" will be essential reading for all those who work with Turkish speakers and will be of interest to teacher trainers, educational policy makers and to the Turkish communities. ... Read more

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Boasting nearly 7,000 titles, Turkey has produced more films than any other country in the Middle East or the Balkans. While the films enjoy great popularity at home, they haven't received the respect they deserve beyond their borders. Frequently, Turkey's cinema has been painted as imitative, simplistic or underdeveloped, casting it in shadow to the West. But things are finally changing. Turkish filmmakers like Nuri Bilge Ceylan are turning up in cinematheques worldwide. Critics are taking notice. And now general readers will have the overview they need to contextualize this remarkable body of work.

Examining both popular genres and art films, Cinema in Turkey deals with the country's entire cinematic tradition, including not only its high point with Yesilcam-Turkey's popular film industry of the 1950s to the 1980s-but also its early years and current revival. In addition to surveying the cinematic landscape and recounting its history, Cinema in Turkey analyzes the arts conventions from which the first films emerged, region-specific permutations, and the cultural ramifications of Turkey's distinct forms of modernization and nation-building. ... Read more

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Asa Lundgren explores Turkish policy towards northern Iraq from the beginning of the 1990s to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and draws important conclusions about the relation between nation-building and foreign policy. The author argues that there is a crucial interplay between the protection of state borders, foreign policy practice and the construction of national identity. Turkey's policy towards northern Iraq during the last decade can be described as a balancing act where the integrity of the Turkish-Iraqi border was firmly defended by Ankara, while at the same time it was consistently violated through Turkish military incursions against a perceived Kurdish threat and by the permanent military presence of the Turkish army on Iraqi territory. The paradoxes of Turkey's policy can only be understood in the light of an ongoing struggle over the definition of Turkish national identity. The author's highly original proposition is that Ankara's policy opposition to all attempts to break up Iraq along ethnic lines was a mirror image of a concern with the unity of the Turkish nation state.
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This book looks at opposition to the Ottoman government in the second half of the nineteenth century, examining a number of key political conspiracies and how these relate to an existing political culture. In his detailed analysis of these conspiracies, the author offers a new perspective on an important and well researched period of Ottoman history.

A close reading of police records on five conspiracies offers the opportunity to analyse this opposition in great detail, giving special attention to the different groups of political actors in these conspiracies that often did not come from the established political elites. Florian Riedler investigates how their background of class and education, but also their individual life experiences influenced their aims and strategies, their political styles as well as their ways of thinking on political legitimacy. In contrast, the reaction of the authorities to these conspiracies reveals the official understanding of Ottoman legitimacy.

The picture that emerges of the political culture of opposition during the second half of the nineteenth century offers a unique contribution to our understanding of the great changes in the political system of the Ottoman Empire at the time. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Middle Eastern history, political history, and the Ottoman Empire.

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An overview of the history and culture of Turkey and its people including the geography, myths, arts, daily life, education, industry, and government, with illustrations from primary source documents. ... Read more

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Embrace the mystic poetry of Rumi.and is being translated in its entirety for the first time by Dr. Nevit O. Ergin. The English translation of Meter I debuted in Spring 1996 and was eagerly welcomed by Sufi members followers of comparative religion and poetry lovers. Turkish scholar Nevit O. Ergin again proves himself up to the challenge of translating the entireshowing us the spirituality and also day-to-day living of Rumi. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of International Affairs, published by Columbia University School of International Public Affairs on September 22, 2000. The length of the article is 7034 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Evolution of the National Security Culture and the Military in Turkey.
Author: Ali L. Karaosmanoglu
Publication: Journal of International Affairs (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
Volume: 54Issue: 1Page: 199

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This digital document is a journal article from Building and Environment, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Lawrence maintains about all architectural environments and housing that, they are both in a relationship with culture and they are a total configuration of social, demographical, psychological, human behavioral and environmental structure. Moreover, in analyzing this complex structure, he emphasizes to examine it within two perspectives: design-meaning and use. Consequently, the basic components, which affect housing design, are classified in three main topics: cultural, social, and psychological. In the light of Lawrence's ideas, under the topic of the role of culture and tradition in the development of housing, this paper aims to define the basic Turkish traditional housing principles with slogans and important examples. In this content, cultural, social and psychological components in traditional Turkish houses are held under the heading of the development of traditional Turkish house. The organization rules, the effects of the basic psycho-social components...etc., and the presence of these principles are criticized with Turkish housing examples before and after 1980. The chosen period in this study is not coincidental. The aim of choosing the periods before and after 1980 has a special meaning in Turkey's economic, politic and social life. Choosing these two basic periods, will not only point out the changes-like a metamorphism-in cultural life, but in architectural needs in Turkish houses. Therefore, in the aim of analyzing cultural changes and their effects on housing design, the architectural meanings in the elements of Turkish houses are put forward in details, in order to make some estimation for the future of changing Turkish architectural life. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2243 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Accelerating the flow of time: soft power and the role of intellectuals in Turkey.(Culture & Politics)
Author: Elif Shafak
Publication: World Literature Today (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 80Issue: 1Page: 24(3)

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 6148 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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Taking the 1980s as a reference point, this study focuses on the network of relationships between publishers, translations in the social sciences and culture planning in Turkey. The analyses it presents are based on interviews held with nine publishing houses that were set up in the 1980s, in the aftermath of the military coup on September 12, 1980, which had significant political, social, and cultural impacts. Most of them still active today, the publishers in this context, with varying publishing policies and agendas, are viewed as culture planners who aim to intervene in the state of things in the country. ... Read more

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Chapters: Turkish Literature, Greek Muslims, Culture of Turkey, Turkish Bath, Köçek, Namus, Turkish Folk Literature, Turkish Cultural Foundation, Turkish Carpet, Cornucopia, Yağlı Güreş, Hora, Battal Gazi, Tamga, Iznik Pottery, Ishikism, Arabesque Music, New Year Tree, List of Festivals in Turkey, Van Cat Naming Controversy, Dedes, 2008 Turkey Ufo Sightings, Çenebaz Osman Efendi, Cemevi, Hamam Omerye Baths, Konya Carpets, Public Holidays in Turkey, Zeibeks, Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs, Lake Van Monster, Women in Turkey, Dadı, Pontos Kültürü, Beşiktaş Mevlevihanesi, Aqsaqal, Ömer Asan, Raindrop Foundation, Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day, Murat Gülsoy, Hıdırellez, Nam-I Kemal Jokes, Karakoncolos, Siyer-I Nebi, Ahriyan, Nazar, Meyhane, Ergenekon, Süleymaniye Hamam, Ahi Evren, Surname Law, Polygamy in Turkey, Camel Wrestling, Alaturbi, Okey, Arifana, Kolot, Peshtamal, Tavara, Jem, Turkish Cultural Center, Diyanet, Republic Day, Rehber, Pir, Murshid, Baba. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 262. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: OrhonDede Korkut Körolu Turkish literature (Turkish: ) comprises both oral compositions and written texts in the Turkish language, either in its Ottoman form or in less exclusively literary forms, such as that spoken in the Republic of Turkey today. The Ottoman Turkish language, which forms the basis of much of the written corpus, was influenced by Persian and Arabic and used a variant of the Perso-Arabic script. The history of Turkic literature spans a period of nearly 1,500 years. The oldest extant records of written Turkic are the Orhon inscriptions, found in the Orhon River valley in central Mongolia and dating to the 8th century. Subsequent to this period, between the 9th and 11th centuries, there arose among the nomadic Turkic ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=576607 ... Read more

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Turkish cinema is an important part of Turkish culture, and has flourished over the years, delivering entertainment to audiences in Turkey, expatriates across Europe, and in rare cases, the USA. Ye?ilçam ("Green Pine") refers to the Turkish film industry in the same way that Hollywood refers to American film. ... Read more