The 21st Aydın Doğan Award has been granted to Turkish contemporary painter Neş’e Erdok, according to the Aydın Doğan Foundation.
The award, which has been issued since the establishment of the foundation in 1996, aims to encourage and reward individuals who have committed their careers to contributing to humanity in the fields of arts, science and culture.
To date, the award has been issued to individuals and institutions who have excelled in, or contributed significantly to, fields such as novel writing, social sciences and the humanities, visual arts, poetry, history, music, archaeology and architecture.
Born in Istanbul in 1940, Erdok studied painting under Neşet Günal at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul.
Between 1965 and 1966, she studied Spanish language and literature as well as the history of Spanish civilization and art at the Escuela Eutral de Idromas and the Escuela Diplomética in Madrid.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/21st-aydin-dogan-award-goes-to-nese-erdok-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=111889&NewsCatID=385
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vendredi 21 avril 2017
jeudi 20 avril 2017
Ancient civilizations on show at Amasra Museum
BARTIN – Anadolu Agency
The Amasra Museum, home to more than 3,000 archaeological and ethnographical artifacts from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Genoese, Seljuk and Ottoman periods, reveals the northern province of Bartın’s 5,000-year-old history.
The Amasra district, where the museum is located, bears the name of Persian queen Amastris, who ruled the city after the Lydians.
The museum opened in 1969 at a primary school building after many artifacts were consecutively extracted from the region. The museum moved to its new place in 1982 after the building of a navy school was bought by the Culture and Tourism Ministry.
With four exhibition halls, the museum displays pieces extracted from graves such as tear glasses, golden and bronze jewelries, bronze statuettes, bracelets, hooks, crosses, weapons, candles, as well as copper kitchen tools, writing tools, chandeliers, seals, scales, ceramics, rings and traditional dresses.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-civilizations-on-show-at-amasra-museum-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=111887&NewsCatID=375
The Amasra Museum, home to more than 3,000 archaeological and ethnographical artifacts from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Genoese, Seljuk and Ottoman periods, reveals the northern province of Bartın’s 5,000-year-old history.
The Amasra district, where the museum is located, bears the name of Persian queen Amastris, who ruled the city after the Lydians.
The museum opened in 1969 at a primary school building after many artifacts were consecutively extracted from the region. The museum moved to its new place in 1982 after the building of a navy school was bought by the Culture and Tourism Ministry.
With four exhibition halls, the museum displays pieces extracted from graves such as tear glasses, golden and bronze jewelries, bronze statuettes, bracelets, hooks, crosses, weapons, candles, as well as copper kitchen tools, writing tools, chandeliers, seals, scales, ceramics, rings and traditional dresses.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-civilizations-on-show-at-amasra-museum-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=111887&NewsCatID=375
mercredi 19 avril 2017
INTERVIEW: Kapka Kassabova on a ‘journey to the edge of Europe’ in Hürriyet Daily News
The border between Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria is described by writer Kapka Kassabova as “the last outpost of Europe.” Bulgaria is the poorest member of the EU, Greece remains mired in economic woes, and Turkey is steadily heading down the path to authoritarianism. The history of the borderland between them is even more troubled than the present, marked by war, ethnic cleansing, and decades of hard division during the Cold War.
In “Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe” (reviewed in HDN here), Kassabova visits this outpost, hearing the voices of local people and chronicling their fragile traditions. Kassabova spoke to HDN about her book on the past and present of this edge of Europe, as well as the remarkable locals she found there.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/interview-kapka-kassabova-on-a-journey-to-the-edge-of-europe.aspx?pageID=238&nID=111751&NewsCatID=386
Gate of Istanbul under restoration in BURSA
BURSA - Doğan News Agency
Restoration work has been initiated in the 2,000-year-old Gate of Istanbul, the most magnificent part of the city walls in the northwestern city of Bursa’s İznik district.
İznik is one of the important pilgrimage centers for the world of Christianity as the 1st and 7th Ecumenical Councils were held there in 325 and 787 A.D. and was home to the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman civilizations.
The project to turn the sunken basilica in the lake into a museum and others works in the ancient theater, tile furnaces, Abdulvahap Hill, khans and madrasahs have still been continuing in the city.
The restoration, carried out by the Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, is slated to cost 4.5 million Turkish Liras.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gate-of-istanbul-under-restoration-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=111550&NewsCatID=375
Restoration work has been initiated in the 2,000-year-old Gate of Istanbul, the most magnificent part of the city walls in the northwestern city of Bursa’s İznik district.
İznik is one of the important pilgrimage centers for the world of Christianity as the 1st and 7th Ecumenical Councils were held there in 325 and 787 A.D. and was home to the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman civilizations.
The project to turn the sunken basilica in the lake into a museum and others works in the ancient theater, tile furnaces, Abdulvahap Hill, khans and madrasahs have still been continuing in the city.
The restoration, carried out by the Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, is slated to cost 4.5 million Turkish Liras.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gate-of-istanbul-under-restoration-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=111550&NewsCatID=375
mardi 18 avril 2017
Harran welcomes volunteer archaeologists
ŞANLIURFA – Anadolu Agency
Visitors to the ancient site of Harran in Southeast Anatolia now have the chance to participate in excavations on one of the oldest sites in human history.
As part of a new project, a special area measuring about 30 square meters has been created in the Ulu Mosque excavation area in which tourists can attempt to conduct excavations for sculptures, ceramic pieces and copper objects placed by archaeologists
Harran District Gov. Temel Ayca said the excavations were very important for tourism in the district.
“People want to experience archaeological excavations. This work makes visitors stay in the district for a longer time, which is our goal. This is one of the most important parts of our rural design project. We want to establish a big archaeopark in Harran. Then people will be able to make excavations in a larger field,” Ayca said.
The head of the Harran excavations, Professor Mehmet Önal, said the excavations in the field were like the real ones, with visitors beginning their dig after receiving some lessons in theory.
“Just like real archaeologists, visitors find artifacts and get very excited. At the end of the education, each of them leaves here as a protector of old artifacts. This makes us very pleased,” he said, adding that his team also provided information about the artifacts unearthed by visitors.
Visitors to the ancient site of Harran in Southeast Anatolia now have the chance to participate in excavations on one of the oldest sites in human history.
As part of a new project, a special area measuring about 30 square meters has been created in the Ulu Mosque excavation area in which tourists can attempt to conduct excavations for sculptures, ceramic pieces and copper objects placed by archaeologists
Harran District Gov. Temel Ayca said the excavations were very important for tourism in the district.
“People want to experience archaeological excavations. This work makes visitors stay in the district for a longer time, which is our goal. This is one of the most important parts of our rural design project. We want to establish a big archaeopark in Harran. Then people will be able to make excavations in a larger field,” Ayca said.
The head of the Harran excavations, Professor Mehmet Önal, said the excavations in the field were like the real ones, with visitors beginning their dig after receiving some lessons in theory.
“Just like real archaeologists, visitors find artifacts and get very excited. At the end of the education, each of them leaves here as a protector of old artifacts. This makes us very pleased,” he said, adding that his team also provided information about the artifacts unearthed by visitors.
April/18/2017 HDN
mercredi 2 novembre 2016
Professor warns of potential 7.6-magnitude earthquake in Istanbul
French geophysicist Professor Xavier Le Pichon, a researcher focusing on the Marmara fault line for the last 15 years, has warned of a potential earthquake with a 7.6-magnitude, daily Hürriyet has reported. Le Pichon said the Istanbul earthquake is approaching slowly.
“We are brushing it off due to issues such as political turmoil and regional conflicts, but the earthquake will affect Istanbul, and it is approaching,” he said.
Le Pichon said he gathered the information from a data released last month by Frenchresearch ship Le Suroit, which came to Turkey after the 1999 Gölcük earthquake.
“An article on the discovery of potential earthquakes was released by the Le Suroit research ship last month. The Marmara fault line, which will prompt an earthquake, is described by Turkish seismologists as a single, thoroughgoing strike-slip fault system,” he said.
Le Pichon said they observed the Northern Anatolian Fault was getting closer to the Marmara province in 1999 and it moved on a single line.
“We observed that the ratio of the movement on this fault line is 20 millimeters per year, and we added that the last crack on this fault line occurred after two major earthquakes in 1766 that occurred in Istanbul. We also noticed that we are expecting an earthquake with a 7.6-magnitude in the next 30 years,” he said.
A research carried out in 2001 with Prof. Celal Şengör and Prof. Tuncay Taymaz from Istanbul Tecnical University and a number of experts confirmed the information on the fault line. “A large number of researchers said these data were not adequate to explain, back in those days,” he said.
Le Pichon said he gathered the information from a data released last month by Frenchresearch ship Le Suroit, which came to Turkey after the 1999 Gölcük earthquake.
“An article on the discovery of potential earthquakes was released by the Le Suroit research ship last month. The Marmara fault line, which will prompt an earthquake, is described by Turkish seismologists as a single, thoroughgoing strike-slip fault system,” he said.
Le Pichon said they observed the Northern Anatolian Fault was getting closer to the Marmara province in 1999 and it moved on a single line.
“We observed that the ratio of the movement on this fault line is 20 millimeters per year, and we added that the last crack on this fault line occurred after two major earthquakes in 1766 that occurred in Istanbul. We also noticed that we are expecting an earthquake with a 7.6-magnitude in the next 30 years,” he said.
A research carried out in 2001 with Prof. Celal Şengör and Prof. Tuncay Taymaz from Istanbul Tecnical University and a number of experts confirmed the information on the fault line. “A large number of researchers said these data were not adequate to explain, back in those days,” he said.
dimanche 27 mars 2016
Let's call Turkey's new İzmit bridge the 'Evliya Çelebi Bridge'
Caroline Finkel, HDN
Friday,March 25 2016, Your time is 23:12:18
Let's call Turkey's new İzmit bridge the 'Evliya Çelebi Bridge'
Evliya was a courtier, a dervish, a historian, a geographer, a musician, a linguist, and much else. He was a wit and raconteur, and a man of boundless curiosity and energy, who travelled the empire and beyond, and wrote about his adventures in the 10-volume “Seyahatname,” or “Book of Travels.” The work is probably the longest travel account in world literature.
dimanche 22 février 2015
Adultery in Islam and among the Ottomans
While stoning is commonly believed to be the penalty for adultery in Islam, flogging was far more readily used following convictions for marital infidelity
In “The Big Wedding,” one of the two main characters in the Turkish shadow play Karagöz is getting married. In a rather lengthy prologue, the entire dowry is paraded in front of the audience with appropriately witty remarks that send everyone into gales of laughter. Then the big night comes and instead of offering Karagöz a night of pleasure, his new bride gives birth to a baby boy who swears and blasphemes as soon as he is born.......
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/adultery-in-islam-and-among-the-ottomans.aspx?pageID=238&nID=78608&NewsCatID=438
dimanche 16 novembre 2014
The Byzantium that is still with us
Sunday,November 16 2014, Your time is 18:23:31
hürriyet daily news
The Hagia Sophia, the walls of Constantinople and a few churches are still with us, while much else remains buried under accumulated building of centuries. Yet we have one institution today whose roots extend back even to the time of New Rome: The Greek Orthodox Church
lundi 14 avril 2014
Ottoman activities in spring
Hürriyet daily news
Imagine the Bosphorus covered in green forest, mimosa, Judas trees and dotted with small villages that can only be reached by small boats. Even Beyoğlu was full of trees and gardens
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ottoman-activities-in-spring.aspx?pageID=238&nID=64922&NewsCatID=438
lundi 3 mars 2014
Medicine under the Ottomans
NIKI GAMM nouvelles quotidien Hürriyet
Certains des principaux philosophes de l'Islam comme Al-Kindi, Ubn Sina, Ibn Rushd et al-Razi étaient également médecins. Depuis philosophes de la tradition ne facturent leurs leçons, ils gagnaient leur vie que les médecins
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/medicine-under-the-ottomans.aspx?pageID=238&nID=63050&NewsCatID=438
dimanche 19 janvier 2014
Depicting Ottoman fashion apparel
Niki GAMM
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/depicting-ottoman-fashion-apparel.aspx?pageID=238&nID=61195&NewsCatID=438
lundi 13 janvier 2014
Ottoman architecture was first seen in Bursa and Edirne in the 14th and 15th centuries. It was based on the earlier Seljuk architecture and heavily influenced by Iranian structures, the knowledge of which the Turks acquired on their way from Asia to Anatolia
Selimiye Mosque.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/the-dome---symbol-of-power-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=60863&NewsCatID=438
mercredi 1 janvier 2014
Safranbolu in panoramic view
Safranbolu, a city with much history to be seen, contemporary and ancient times coalesce in this scenic arena
Safranbolu became more professional in its approach of tourism and became more popular for tourists. It is a cute, nice and photogenic place. Photo, Sena OK
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/safranbolu-in-panoramic-view.aspx?pageID=238&nID=58933&NewsCatID=379
jeudi 19 décembre 2013
'The Young Atatürk'
William Armstrong - william.armstrong@hdn.com.tr
There has been a resurgence of popular interest in Mustafa Kemal Atatürk of late. Almost all opposition groups have been selectively reconsidering the legacy of the Turkish Republic’s founder, in response to the country’s bitter recent culture wars and in the afterglow of the summer’s Gezi protests. Abroad, interest in Atatürk was also piqued by anti-government protesters photographed waving around his picture, so it’s probably an auspicious time to be publishing a new book on the man. This title by historian George W. Gawrych is primarily focused on the military aspect of the “young Atatürk,” and self-admittedly doesn’t aim to provide a complete assessment of its subject’s broader legacy. Still, it does leave the reader wishing for a rather more comprehensive appraisal; the young Atatürk may be inextricable from the military Atatürk, but considering either with only minimal reference to the broader sweep of Ottoman decline and republican revival makes for a pretty dry read.
The book opens with an account of Mustafa Kemal’s early years studying at the Ottoman military high school in Salonica, his hometown. After graduating, he became involved with the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), the group of “Young Turk” officers that overthrew Sultan Abdülhamid II in 1908. Mustafa Kemal had the good fortune of not yet being high enough in the Young Turk echelons to be tarred by the mess that followed the CUP’s seizing of power, when the empire limped from crisis to crisis. However, during the Great War he commanded the heroic but tragic defence of Gallipoli in 1915, emerging with a strong reputation from a brutal slugfest that ended with around 500,000 dead on all sides. The eventual armistice later imposed by the victorious Entente powers was a peace without honour, demanding the total and unconditional surrender of the Ottoman forces. The terms amounted to the complete dismemberment of almost all of the empire’s remaining territory, with the spoils divided between the British, the French, the Italians, the Greeks, and the Armenians. However, with the CUP leadership either discredited or on trial, and the sultan’s imperial retinue effectively held hostage in occupied Istanbul, the seeds of an independence struggle were already being sown by patriotic military figures in Anatolia, to which Mustafa Kemal quietly departed.
Unfortunately, it’s around this crucial point that the book becomes a trudge, with Gawrych providing exhaustive (and exhausting) blow-by-blow accounts of every major military clash that took place between the Turks and the Greeks. Of course, a military historian cannot really be criticised for focusing on this aspect of things, but such intricate accounts of the minutiae of military strategy will probably be trying for even the most enthusiastic reader. Wading through them sometimes feels as attritional as the campaigns being described. Still, some relief does come; Gawrych gives a revelatory account of the often overlooked revolts against the nationalists that were staged throughout the independence struggle by militia groups across Anatolia, (not just in Kurdistan). Particularly striking is the book’s description of the brutal crushing of a local Greek rebellion in the western Black Sea region, in which tens of thousands were killed and deported.
Clausewitz wrote that the “statesman is inseparable from the soldier,” and this was certainly the case with Atatürk. Gawyrch’s book is subtitled “From Soldier to Statesman,” but in fact the statesman never really emerged independent from the soldier in Mustafa Kemal; the rigid, positivistic outlook that he acquired as a soldier deeply informed his later actions as president. Nevertheless, the book is also keen to make clear that this rigidity never overshadowed the robust pragmatism that marked his political steps throughout the independence struggle. Although fixed in his plans to establish a secular state defined by a restrictive “Turkism,” the young Mustafa Kemal was never shy in playing the broader Islamic card when seeking to rally popular support behind his forces. Pragmatism also defined relations with the Soviet Union, which he solicited for crucial financial and military assistance – Gawrych mentions a remarkable private letter sent by Mustafa Kemal to Lenin in 1922, in which he expressed the need to found a bloc to resist the methods of “imperialism and capitalism.”
The book ends with the declaration of the republic in 1923, before the most controversial episodes of Mustafa Kemal’s rule, and also before the major revolutionary secularising reforms that he would later enforce. However, almost inadvertently, its account of the near “total war” that Turkey went through for close to two decades gives an idea of the conditions that allowed those reforms to be pushed through. Faced with a brutalised population exhausted by war on a purged Anatolian landscape, and emboldened by the political capital that came with defeating the Greeks, Mustafa Kemal had unique conditions in which to push through his attempted root and branch social revolution. Frustratingly, exploring the wider significance of this process lies outside the scope of Gawrych’s book.
mercredi 13 novembre 2013
De Balat à Bat Yam: Mémoires d'un Juif turc
«De Balat à Bat Yam" fait partie d'un certain nombre de titres de valeur sur la communauté juive d'Istanbul dans le 20e siècle de la petite maison d'édition Balance. Les tirages de ces livres sont si minuscules que leurs sujets ne sont pas susceptibles d'être beaucoup moins obscure que ce qu'ils étaient avant, mais ils offrent toujours de la nourriture satisfaisante pour la pensée. Eli Shaul est né en 1916 et a grandi dans le quartier de Balat à Istanbul, avant de passer sur la Corne d'Or à Galata, puis migrer vers Israël avec sa famille en 1950. Des milliers de Juifs turcs ont connu une trajectoire similaire, mais pas tout le monde a laissé une telle trace écrite varié et stimulant que Shaul.
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