Students aged between 8 and 14 from around the world began arriving in Turkey on April 16 to take part in the greatest show on earth – the 29th International April 23 Children's Day Festival - in Antalya. The students were greeted at the airport and taken to the...
INTRODUCTION
Regarding the ethnic identity of ancient Etruscans, confusing writings have been produced since the times of ancient Romans and Greeks. To me the ancient confusion was intentional because ancient Greeks, Romans and the Semitic people jointly wanted to destroy the ancient Turanian civilization and obliterate the Turanian identity of...
UNESCO has declared 2008 as the Willam Saroyan Year in honour of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author on his 100th birthday which is being celebrated in California and other cities across the USA.
The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced plans to open a museum in Bitlis where his...
A Book by Faruk Pekin and Hayri Fehmi Yılmaz, NTVYayinlari, March 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
Turkey is home to unmatched geography and historical and cultural heritage. The greater landmass, Anatolia (Anadolu), referred to as ‘’where the sun rises’’, is also known as the ‘’Cradle of Civilisations’’... Many different people, tribes and...
Introduction:
In this essay I will present an in depth understanding to the identity of the ancient Masarian civilization - which has been usurped by the wandering gipsies of old days and falsely renamed as 'Egyptian', meaning "Gypsy", - as if this very old civilization was their own. Thus, the...
In 1986, a local man discovered a statue while tilling the soil in his small field in a place called Göbeklitepe - The Hill With a Belly. He took the statue to the Şanlıurfa
Archaeology Museum where experts determined that it was perhaps created between 6000 and 7000 BC by the ancient people...
A tribute on the 69th Anniversary of his death and Commemoration Service, Thessaloniki (Selanik), November 10, 2007, At five minutes past 9 on November 10, 2007, in the city where Ataturk was born in 1881, close to five hundred people gathered in his historical house to commemorate the death...
CBS
Sixty Minutes December 20, 2009
524 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Att: Bob Simon
Dear Mr Simon,
I am a Turkish-American living in New Jersey. Today, I watched with interest your interview with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Head of the Greek Orthodox Church, worldwide.
I was appalled when I heard him...
The book, first introduced during the October 2009 Book Fair in Istanbul, is new on the Armenian issue by a Turkish researcher and writer, assisted by his daughter Tomris. I started reading the book during the first leg of a month-long Train tour of Turkey that started on December...
While attending Tarsus American High School in the early 50s, one of our teachers Frank Stone would hold debates on various subjects. One of these was on “Whether US was justified in using an atomic bomb to end World War II.” Two groups would be picked, but our teacher...
