Cyprus that is located in Eastern Mediterranean has a great strategic importance for European countries as much as other North Africa and Middle East have. Sovereign states made big wars especially to keep the artery of commerce under control and the island was occupied by so many forces throughout the history. Cyprus that consistently passed [...]
Entries Tagged as 'History'
Cyprus Dimension of Turkish Foreign Policy
December 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Ankara · Authors · Cyprus · Cyprus/TRNC · EU Members · Enosis · Greece · History · Israel · Main Issues · Mehmet Fatih ÖZTARSU · NATO · North Africa · Russian Federation · The Council of Europe · The European Parliament · The Ottoman Empire · UN · USA · Union for the Mediterranean
7,000 years older than Stonehenge: the site that stunned archaeologists
December 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
İşte size 12000 yıllık bir haber…… Gazetelerimizde hiç yer almıyor, ilgi görmüyor desek yeridir. Yukarıda saydığım “bıkıntı” konuların hepsi gidici ve geçici ama bu 12000 yıl dayanmış, umarım Türkiyenin bu ilgisizliğine karşın 12000 yıl daha dayanır.
ilginize sunarim.
K. A.
7,000 years older than Stonehenge: the site that stunned archaeologists
Circles of elaborately carved stones [...]
Tags: History
Laying Claim to Asia
December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
by Dmitry Shlapentokh
22 December 2008
On the Dnieper and in Crimea, the notion is taking root that Eurasia’s true heart was never in Russia after all.
For centuries, nationalistic Ukrainian intellectuals have seen Ukraine as a part of Europe and hostile to Asians. And it was Russians who were dubbed Asiatics, descendants of the Mongols, who had nothing to [...]
Tags: History · Russian Federation · Ukraine
Turkey Confronts a Disputed Period in Its History
December 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Turkey Confronts a Disputed Period in Its History
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 5 Issue: 240
December 17, 2008
By: Saban Kardas
A group of Turkish intellectuals have taken a bold step to open a public debate on the disputed events of 1915, when the Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were forced to relocate, leading to the death [...]
Tags: ASALA · Armenian Question · History · Saban Kardas · The Ottoman Empire
Journalist of Turkish origin, under protection after menaces
December 12th, 2008 · No Comments
OFFICE-TKG
Belcikada neler oluyor? Asagida gelen Türkce ve Ingilizce e-postalari dikkatlere sakince okumak amaci ile sunuyoruz. Asagida yazi ‚dogrular ile yanlislarin birbirine karistirildigi’ va amaci karalama ve camaura cekme girisimi olan bir propaganda calismasi olabilri. Dogru ise cok üzücü bir gelisme ile karsi, karsiyayiz. Asgidaki yazi Türkce ve Ingilizce AB ülkelerinin her tarafina yollandigini tahmin ediyoruz! [...]
Tags: ASALA · Armenian Question · Cyprus/TRNC · Enosis · History · Islam · Main Issues · Terrorism
Armenian Activities in the Archive Documents 1914-1918
December 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Turkish Armed Forces published archive documents about Armenian activities between 1914 and 1918. You can download those documents below. (In English, Turkish and original documents in Ottoman)
Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5 | Volume 6
Tags: Armenian Question · History · The Ottoman Empire
The German-Turk Miracle: Arnold Reisman’s Turkey’s Modernization
December 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Vol. 48 No. 4 (October 2007)
http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2007/12/17/the-german-turk-miracle-arnold-reismans-turkeys-modernization/#respond
Yakup Bektas
This book, long overdue, brings to light the little-known story of how Turkey welcomed (and thus saved) several hundred prominent, predominantly Jewish, intellectuals, scientists, doctors, legal scholars, architects, librarians, and musicians fleeing the Nazis. They came from Germany and other German-speaking parts of Europe, mainly Austria and parts of [...]
Tags: Ataturk · History · Main Issues
Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Symposium in Bishkek, Aug. 24-29, 2009
December 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University
International Committee of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies (CIEPO)
Interim Symposium
On the Central Asiatic Roots of the Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Culture
August 24-29, 2009, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
First Circular
We are pleased to announce that the CIEPO Symposium on the Central
Asiatic Roots of the pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Culture will be held at
Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Bishkek, 24-29 August, 2009.
The Organizing [...]
Tags: History · Kyrgyzstan · The Ottoman Empire
Turkish History: Truman Doctrine, Carter Doctrine and 1980 Turkish coup d’état
November 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Truman Doctrine
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Truman_Doctrine
Carter Doctrine
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Carter_Doctrine
1980 Turkish coup d’état
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ 1980_Turkish_ coup_d%27% C3%A9tat
Tags: Ataturk · Democracy · History · Main Issues · NATO · UN
Chasing the Lydian Hoard ; Calinan Karun Hazinesi
November 21st, 2008 · No Comments
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