This month the Turkish nation commemorates the 73rd anniversary of Ataturk’s passing. On this solemn occasion, rather than lamenting his loss, it is more fitting to take stock candidly of how true we have been to the legacy of this great leader.
Ataturk, now more than a mortal, is an...
This year, on October 29 the Turkish Nation will celebrate the 88th Anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic in Turkey. It is an epic saga that started on May 19, 1919, and came to a glorious climax on October 29, 1923, with the rebirth of a nation. No...
The Statue of Liberty is a majestic sculpture that towers above Liberty Island at the entrance to New York Harbor. This figure of a woman draped in a loose robe holding a glowing torch in her uplifted right hand is renowned throughout the world. It is a symbol of...
A two day conference was held in Ulaanbaatar on Aug 25 – 27, 2011 on Global Peace Leadership as part of the 5th “Convention of World Mongolians” and “Global Peace Festival.” The title of the conference was “Mongolia and Northeast Asia Peace.” Several other events also took place during...
The month of August has a special meaning for the Turkish nation. When the Ottoman Empire was defeated at the end of the First World War, the 622-year existence of this once vast and glorious Empire came to an end on August 10, 1920, with the signing of the...
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...
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...
The Redhouse Turkish-English Dictionary provides us with a very interesting definition. The entry is called "TARIH-I TÜRK" and is defined as:
"TARIH-I TURK, IS ALSO CALLED THE TURKISH ERA, DIVIDED INTO AGES OF 10,000 YEARS EACH, AND INTO PERIODS OF 60, 12 AND 10 YEARS EACH, THE TOTAL PREDESTINED...
Dear Akhilesh Pillalamarri,
I thank you for your kind and supportive comments. I appreciated them. Your scholarly questions are valid ones and they need to be answered with care. That is why I have taken time in responding. Scholars like yourself who show keen understanding in what I have written...
A Historical Record - A Greek Tragedy And Greek Amnesia By Ayhan Ozer
The Turkish-Greek friendship was conceived and realized in the 1930s by Ataturk and the then Greek Prime Minister Venizelos to promote the mutual interests of the two countries in a spirit of cooperation and harmony. Later, however,...
