tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82685210268447189482024-03-16T01:10:05.155+00:00T-VINEAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.comBlogger368125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-60388583423633362662016-01-29T15:37:00.001+00:002016-01-29T15:42:14.714+00:00New North London venue Starfish Loves Coffee to host Open Mic nights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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on Saturdays for musical talent in the capital. Singers and musicians are
invited to take part in front of a live audience at this hip new coffee
shop-cum-bar in the heart of Palmers Green, <st1:place w:st="on">North London</st1:place>.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The event starts at 6.30pm and runs till late.
Performers should turn up early in the evening to register and will be allocated
a slot to showcase their talents. The sessions will be hosted by local
personality Chris Kalli and actor Aykut Hilmi, who co-owns Starfish Loves
Coffee with his wife Ingrid. Entrance is free to both entertainers and the
public, who can indulge in the venue’s selection of craft beer, fine wine and
Prosecco on tap, while enjoying and supporting the performers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk1yErQ4OrNPt3swFuKLjQ1ijo3Nhyphenhyphenwm0b0knrrqt8kDKGdo8EGGRt-mQ1fO2LeltuMYG61vJUtlMbOAxGQuIwVL5yyKwtd-HVLN9F7RmvCJTSj8tRl2gcrO3APlBsqm2BT2PsydF_Jh4/s1600/Aykut+Hilmi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk1yErQ4OrNPt3swFuKLjQ1ijo3Nhyphenhyphenwm0b0knrrqt8kDKGdo8EGGRt-mQ1fO2LeltuMYG61vJUtlMbOAxGQuIwVL5yyKwtd-HVLN9F7RmvCJTSj8tRl2gcrO3APlBsqm2BT2PsydF_Jh4/s200/Aykut+Hilmi.jpg" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Located on Aldermans Hill, Starfish Loves Coffee has quickly become a hub for the local community
since opening in November. The chic, glass-fronted shop with cool art on its
walls (many items are for sale) is popular with parents by day that gently
morphs into a bar in the evenings hosting a myriad of cultural happenings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Aykut Hilmi, who has appeared in Hollywood movies
such as <i>Mama Mia</i>, TV shows such as <i>Spooks </i>and<i> 24,</i> and was the lead in hit <st1:place w:st="on">West End</st1:place>
musicals <i>Grease</i> and <i>Saturday Night Fever</i>, <span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">feels
it’s important for the venue to be used in diverse ways, with cultural being
integral to its local appeal: <br />
<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--></span><i>“We are already hosting everything from
film to comedy nights, as well as intimate music jams. So if you want to
perform or have an idea, please get in touch!”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Address: Starfish Loves Coffee, 92 Aldermans
Hill, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>
N13 4PP<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Contact: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/starfishlovescoffee"><b>facebook.com/starfishlovescoffee</b></a>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><st1:country-region style="background-color: transparent;" w:st="on"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Turkey</span></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">’s top politicians,
business leaders and many other notables were out on Sunday to bid farewell to
two of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
leading personalities: Mustafa Koç from the world of
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">On Thursday, 21 Jan, Mustafa Koç, the chairman of
Koç Holding, passed away aged 55 following a heart attack. He was laid to rest
next to his grandfather Vehbi Koç in a family plot in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:city></st1:place>'s Zincirlikuyu cemetery following
funeral prayers at the Marmara University Theology Faculty Mosque – the site where
his company annually holds <i>iftar</i>
(fast-breaking) dinners for Muslims during <i>Ramazan</i>.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and CHP leader
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu were among the mourners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The day after <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place> was rocked by the sudden death of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;">Mustafa Koç</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, the country also lost Kamer Genç. The veteran politician, known for
his candid </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">colourful and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">views, died after a long battle against pancreatic cancer and was
buried in his home town of </span><st1:city style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Tunceli</st1:city><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, in eastern </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, on
Monday. A service was held in his honour at Kartal Cemevi in </span><st1:city style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Istanbul on Sunday</st1:city><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, with CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu, former Parliament
Speaker Hüsamettin Cindoruk, former Culture Minister Namık Kemal Zeybek and
İzzettin Doğan, the head of </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">’s
Cem Foundation, among those present to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">pay
their respects </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">to the well-loved
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Kamer Genç - </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">"The Nation's Deputy", 1940 – 2016</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Of Zaza heritage Genç was born on 23 Feb. 1940 to
a poor Alevi family in Ramazanköy, a village in Nazımiye in Tunceli. A bright
student, he won a scholarship to his high school and <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">went
on to graduate </span>from
the Ankara Financial and <st1:placename w:st="on">Commercial</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype>
(now the Economic and Managerial Sciences Faculty at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Gazi</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>)
in 1966. He took up an internship with the Ministry of Finance and was
subsequently appointed as a Tax Officer in nearby Bingöl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">He spent two years in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city> between 1974 and 76. He returned to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region> and served in the Council of State, scrutinising
the public sector finances and, where required, prosecuting any civil servants
who had misused state funds. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Following the military coup of 1980,
Genç decided to enter politics. His application to stand as an independent
candidate in Tunceli was initially turned down in 1983, but he succeeded a few
years later and was first elected as an MP to Parliament in 1987. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'The Nation's Deputy' - thousands came to sign the book of condolences for Kamer Gen<span style="font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: start;">ç</span></span></i></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Genç went on to serve as a deputy for a total of six
terms. Of these, he stood as a Tunceli MP for CHP for two terms. He also served
as a deputy for the Social Democratic People's Party (SHP) and the True Path
Party (DYP). He failed to enter Parliament in 2002 when DYP failed to secure
enough votes to cross the electoral threshold. However, Genç was re-elected in
2007 and again in 2011, serving until the General Elections of 2015. During his
time as an MP, he also served as the Deputy Speaker of Parliament for the 20</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
(1996-1999) and 21</span><sup>st</sup><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> (1999-2002) sessions.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">A man of the people, sincere yet stubborn, he was known as much for his integrity as for his outspoken views. Genç gained
huge respect from the Turkish public in his later years as he was a constant
thorn in AKP’s side, regularly challenging them over their attempt to change
the secular nature of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
their lack of transparency and the many corruption allegations that have
plagued the party since 2013. Such was his Genç’s fierce opposition that some
Turkish commentators dubbed him <i>“<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
Biggest Opposition Party”</i>. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">He was also known for his comical gaffes in Parliament,
which further endeared him to the nation.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Even though her wealthy father was reluctant to
give his daughter away to the son of a pauper, Genç married his childhood
sweetheart Sevim in 1967. She and their two children, Seçkin and Seçil, was at his
bedside at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Gayrettepe</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Florence</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Nightingale</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Hospital</st1:placetype></st1:place> when he passed
away on 22 Jan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Mustafa Koç </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">"an outstanding business leader", 1960 – 2016</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Twenty years his junior, Mustafa Koç’s start in life
couldn’t have been more different to Kamer Genç. He was born into one of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
wealthiest families, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">the eldest of Rahmi and Çiğdem Koç's </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;">three sons</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;">His mother left the family home to be with another businessman, Haldun Simavi, when he was aged 11. Soon after, Mustafa Koç was sent to study at a private high school in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;" w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;">, learning English and German in the process. He went on to the George Washington University School of Business, graduating in 1984. He returned to </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;" w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:city><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;"> where he started to work in the family business, initially as a manager in the sales division at Tofaş cars.</span></div>
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in different roles across the family’s diverse business portfolio before being
made vice-president of Koç Holding in 1992. Four years later, he was appointed
CEO and in 2003, he took over as chairman when his father Rahmi retired.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Koç Holding currently owns 113 companies that
operate in the automotive sector, white goods, food, retailing, energy,
financial services, tourism, construction and IT industries. In 2014, the group
posted $31.3 bn in sales, amounting to 8 percent of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s GDP. The conglomerate has 85,000
employees and its manufactured goods account for 9% of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
exports. It is listed as the 341st largest company in the world by Fortune
magazine Global – the only Turkish company on the Fortune 500 list. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">According to Bloomberg, Mustafa Koç’s term as
chairman saw landmark deals to expand the group, including the takeover of 51
percent of Tüpraş (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
only crude-oil refinery) from the government for $4.1 billion in 2005. He also
bought 57 percent of lender Yapı Kredi Bankası AS from Çukurova Holding AS for
$1.5 billion, a deal it undertook in partnership with <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s Unicredit SpA in 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ford Motor Co., paid tribute to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
leading businessman: <i>“Mustafa was an
outstanding business leader, a man of true integrity and a loyal friend and
partner to Ford over many decades.”</i> Ford
and Koç Holding have been partners for more than 80 years in motor-vehicle
production in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Posing at the </span></span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">bust of </span></span></span></i><i style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Atat</span></span></i><i style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">ürk </span></span></span></i><i style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">in<span class="apple-converted-space"> <st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:city u1:st="on"></st1:city></st1:place></span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Havana</st1:city>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> <st1:country-region u1:st="on"></st1:country-region></span><st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba - his penultimate </st1:country-region></st1:place></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Bülent Eczacıbaşı, chairman of Eczacıbaşı Holding
AS and a close friend of Mustafa Koç and his family, said:<i> “His passing away is a big loss not only for his family and the Koç
Group, but also for our business community and our country.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Mustafa Koç was not only a business pioneer, but also known for his
philanthropic support of the Arts, as well as many cultural and social projects. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">He
also championed gender equality and was due to speak on the issue at a high
profile forum in Davos during the week of his death.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The billionaire businessman endeared himself to
the public when, during the Gezi Riots in 2013, he and his brother Ali allowed injured people to
take refuge in the family-owned Divan Hotel located in Taksim, where they were
also treated for their injuries. His actions incurred the wrath of the ruling
AKP Party, who cancelled various government defence contracts with Koç.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">In 1992, he married Caroline Giraud, the daughter
of a wealthy family from </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Izmir</st1:city></st1:place><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">.
They have two daughters, Esra and Aylin. Mustafa Koç was also a passionate golfer and supporter
of Fenerbahçe Football Club.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-33719225062668341122016-01-23T13:19:00.002+00:002016-01-23T13:19:43.900+00:00OBITUARY: Prof. Salahi Ramadan Sonyel, 19 April 1932 - 25 December 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">“<i>I took early retirement to concentrate on my
research and writings”</i> said Prof. Salahi Sonyel, who sadly passed away on
Christmas Day 2015, in an interview I had conducted with him back in 1998. And
indeed his writings and all the research he conducted over many years made him
one of the most respected Turkish Cypriot historians residing in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Prof.
Sonyel was born in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region> in
1932 and graduated from the <st1:placename w:st="on">English</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype> in <span class="textexposedshow">Lefkoşa (</span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nicosia</st1:place></st1:city>). He later went to serve as a civil servant
in the British Colonial Administration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">He
first came to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region> in
1957, studied at the Queen's University, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Belfast</st1:place></st1:city>
and obtained his BA and MA qualifications in 1959. Prof. Sonyel went back to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region> and then returned to the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> in 1964 following the start of the troubles
in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Since then he has lived in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
for over 50 years till his death. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">In
1971, he gained his PhD from the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">London</st1:placename> <span class="textexposedshow">and became an Associate of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Education</st1:placename></st1:place>.
He was also a member of the Cyprus Turkish Association [<i>Kıbrıs Türk Cemiyet</i>] for over 40 years – the first Turkish association
to be established in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">As a historian he was an expert on
Atatürk, Atatürk’s revolutions, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>’s
Independence War and the period during the establishment of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Republic</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Turkey</st1:placename></st1:place>. His passion on the subjects of
Armenians in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and the Armenian massacre of 1915 was a central theme<b> </b>in his books and pamphlets. He was an honorary member of the
Turkish Historical Society based in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ankara</st1:place></st1:city>.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our first meeting in1998, I met Prof. Sonyel on many occasions and interviewed
him on various different other subjects. On areas such as migration, identity,
racism, and being Turkish and living in the </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">, Prof. Sonyel proved he was not
only a historian, but equally committed as a social scientist.</span></div>
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after I met him, I learned about his research in the area of Turkish migration
while he was active in the <span class="textexposedshow"><i>Cemiyet</i></span> during the
1970s and 1980s. I discovered fairly quickly that he was interested in the
education of Turkish and Muslim children in schools, and had written many
articles about their situation along with education improvement strategies. His
book <i>The Silent Minority – Turkish Muslim
Children in British Schools,</i> published in 1988, widened the debate within
society on the underachievement of Turkish-speaking children in British schools,
which remains a challenge even today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">To
my surprise, I went on to discover the immense work he had carried out in the
area of the Turkish people living in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region></st1:place>. During my research in the
archives of <span class="textexposedshow"><i>Cemiyet</i></span> I came across many articles
written by him on the exclusion of the <i>“silent
community”</i> in which he refers to as the ‘Turkish Muslim Community’, and
many more articles about Turkey’s history in the magazines, which were
published by <span class="textexposedshow"><i>Cemiyet</i></span> in particular in their Turkish
publication <i>Toplumun Sesi,</i> and others
in the English language like <i>Turkish News</i>.
The more I delved into the extensive archives, the more I discovered the many
old articles written or edited by Prof Sonyel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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one of our conversations Prof. Sonyel told me he had originally wanted to
become a poet and wanted to work in the area of literature, something he was
very passionate about. However the Turkish Cypriot poet and writer Nazif
Süleyman Ebeoğlu said to him at the beginning of the 1950s that Osman Türkay
will become a very famous poet, but he (Prof.Sonyel) should rather concentrate
his energy on other areas like political science, economics or social sciences. Nazif Süleyman Ebeoğlu’s advice was to prove
very wise and helped Prof Sonyel to find his own way into the world of social
sciences. He was very grateful to Nazif Süleyman Ebeoğlu, whom he considered
his teacher and mentor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sonyel also worked very closely with the twice Nobel Prize Nominee Turkish
Cypriot poet Osman Türkay, helping him and other members of <span class="textexposedshow"><i>Cemiyet</i></span> with the publication of their
magazines. Innovative papers and articles were published on the issues faced by
ethnic minorities, which were unique and groundbreaking during the period,
especially in the 1970s where people were seemingly more interested in talking
about the migrants’ issues instead of analysing and writing about them. I have
not yet come across in any periodicals which were published during the 1970s by
any other ethnic minority communities concerning the issues faced by migrants
during that era.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sonyel was aware of the existence of racism in British society and worked
tirelessly to overcome the prejudice in the wider community. He told me in one
of our conversations: <i>“When I first came
here, I tried to find employment, but found it very difficult because of my
name, as it is a Muslim name. I changed my name and within a fortnight I became
the head of a large social science department in a secondary school. I changed
my name when racism was rampant in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>; it was before the time of the
emergence of multi-cultural education. The Turkish people who have changed
their names like me are doing well, but a lot of the Turks who hung on to their
names experienced racism.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘Islamophobia’ seems to have existed in different guises much before the 9/11
events.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">
In fact it is shocking<b> </b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;">to know that a
respected historian and academic had to change his Muslim sounding name in to
an English sounding one, in order to progress within his profession and
professional life<b>. </b>It is important
to mark the current atrocities happening in the name of Islam and increased
Islamophobia in British society, yet we must also remember that Islamophobia is
not an entirely new issue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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our interviews on this subject that,</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"> the level of racism is not the same
as that experienced by Asian or Black people living in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
However, he always added that all the ethnic minorities are experiencing
varying degrees of racism in diverse areas of their working or professional
lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sonyel will be remembered not only as a historian, but I believe it would be
improper<b> </b>if we failed to recognise
him as a social scientist too. It would be unforgiveable to forget all the work
he has done in the last 50 years, in the area of exclusion, xenophobia,
education of Turkish-speaking children and Turkish migration to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Prof.
Sonyel was one of many remarkable people from the Turkish-speaking community
who came to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region>, stayed,
lived and worked in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
And during his time, Prof. Sonyel left an indelible mark and a treasure trove
of writings for his own Turkish community, to other ethnic minority communities,
to the academic community and to the wider British society. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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worked very hard and crafted his thoughts into words, the words were converted
into books; these books will, in the future, be converted into new thoughts.
Prof. Sonyel left a written historical legacy for the future generation of the
Turkish-speaking communities not only in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>, but across the world. The
void he leaves behind will not be easily filled and will take time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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once remarked, <i>“I live in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region> with my
Turkish Cypriot identity. I carry my Turkish identity everywhere I go but of
course, I am part of the wider British society, too.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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books, articles and pamphlets. Some of his books in English are </span></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;">Atatürk – The Founder of Modern <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>’,</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;"> <i>Minorities and The Destruction of The <st1:place w:st="on">Ottoman Empire</st1:place>,</i> and</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">The Assyrians of Turkey Victims
of Major Power Policy</span></i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">. His </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">works appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>, the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and in other
countries. </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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was a visiting professor <span class="textexposedshow">at the <st1:placename w:st="on">Near East</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> in Lefkoşa, in the <st1:placename w:st="on">Turkish</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Republic</st1:placetype> of Northern <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region>, as well as in </span>various universities
in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region> and
other countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sonyel became a major part of the history of the Turkish people living in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region> and also played a huge role in recording
history and sharing his analysis of the Turkish people living in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The calm before the storm as two leaders pose outside the famous door. Photo: Facebook/Turkish Embassy in London</span></i></td></tr>
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Turkey</span></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu had an unseemly exit from <st1:place w:st="on">Downing Street</st1:place> on Monday 18 Jan. as protestors tried to
storm the famous street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Following his hour-long meeting with British
counterpart David Cameron, Davutoğlu and his delegation were set to leave as
they had entered, via the front gates. Hundreds of protestors were assembled on
<st1:city w:st="on">Whitehall</st1:city> opposite <st1:place w:st="on">Downing
Street</st1:place>. As soon as officers on motorbikes escorting the Turkish PM’s
motorcade went out onto the main road, scores of protestors rushed to enter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Duty officers quickly closed the gates and called
for reinforcements. Scuffles broke out as the police tried to contain the protestors
and push them back behind the barricades. Ten arrests were made and a few
journalists suffered minor injuries as they tried to capture the chaotic scenes
(see below clip by Evrensel Gazetesi).</span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">British
minister expresses “regret” over <st1:place w:st="on">Downing Street</st1:place>
events</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Realising the problems on <st1:city w:st="on">Whitehall</st1:city>,
the Turkish motorcade quickly exited from the gates at the far end of <st1:place w:st="on">Downing Street</st1:place>. Later on Monday evening, Sajid Javid, the
British Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills, visited
Davutoğlu at his <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> hotel to express regret
for the events outside <st1:place w:st="on">Downing Street</st1:place>. Turkish
media, however, reported the British response as an “apology”, which has been
denied by British officials. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Turkish sources close to the Prime Minister said <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>
authorities had been forewarned of the need for increased security during the
Turkish Prime Minister’s two-day visit. Their concerns were proven to be
well-founded. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The protestors – mainly from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region>’s Kurdish community – were present to
denounce Davutoğlu’s government over the current unrest in southeast <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>, which
has claimed over 300 lives. Some held placards such as “Stop Turkeys War on
Kurds” [sic], “Davutoglu War Criminal ISIS Supporter” and “Murderer Davutoglu”,
while others waved banners displaying the picture of jailed PKK leader Abdullah
Öcalan.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Trade
between <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region> & the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> exceeded $15
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an otherwise highly successful visit to the British capital by Ahmet Davutoğlu and
his high-level delegation, which included deputy PMs Mehmet Şimşek and Lütfi
Elvan, Economy Minister Mustafa Elitaş, and Treasury Minister Naci Ağbal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The Turkish PM had come to address the 16th
Turkish Equity Conference organised by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where
he was able to meet with current and prospective investors in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>. During
the visit, Davutoğlu also spoke at Chatham House and was interviewed by
Bloomberg’s Guy Johnson.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">At Monday’s Downing Street meeting with David Cameron, the
two leaders discussed the growing trade between their respective countries,
which exceeded $15 billion in 2015, the war on terror, and the prospects of a
political solution in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">
in 2016. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-36108031972826190942016-01-20T20:11:00.001+00:002016-01-22T00:00:46.775+00:00Tamer Hassan joins Game of Thrones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Tamer
Hassan at press launch of Golden Island International Film Festival in Lefko</span></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">şa, May 2014</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the next series of Game of Thrones. The Hollywood actor revealed the news at
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>
premier of <i>Breakdown</i> last week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">He told Bang Showbiz:<i> “I just finished doing Game of Thrones</i>. <i>I loved it. I can’t say too much about it but I’m part of that.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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“It’s exciting what you’re going to see. Learning that Dothraki language was a
feat in itself… so I’ve given you a little bit, but I’m not going to say too
much!”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Season six of the globally popular HBO show will
return in late April. According to interviews Hassan has given since the news
broke, his arrival on the show will impact significantly on the fantasy drama. The
47-year-old actor told <b><a href="http://loaded.co.uk/tamer-hassan-game-of-thrones-is-the-most-challenging-work-ive-ever-done-interview/">Loaded.co.uk</a></b><b> </b>his character is a Dothraki warrior. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">"I
play a Dothraki warrior, a leader ... It's not a regular role or a major role,
but the impact of what I do is epic ... What I do affects the main characters.
Really, it's massive. A lot of people around me die. I didn't die.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The actor has been eager to play a role in the
drama for years and even though he has regularly met with the show’s producers,
they have only seen fit to cast him now for season six. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">“I
actually was a little bit angry because I’ve met for Game Of Thrones for every
season but it never worked out. When you look at the show, how do I not fit in?
It’s just one of those ones that I could never seem to get, until now.”</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Of his experience on set, Hassan said the hit
show was like no other he has experienced: <i>"How
they work and what they do on that show is just like nothing I have ever seen
before. They work incredibly, incredibly hard. You get your page of lines and
that is all you see. You have no idea of the script and no idea what's going on
and that is what is really magical about it.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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silver screen with distinguished actors such as Sir Ben Kingsley, Richard Gere,
Ralph Fiennes, and Daniel Craig. Among Hassan's 50 plus film credits are cult
classics <i>The Football Factory </i>and<i> The Business </i>alongside Danny Dyer<i>, </i>as well as <i>Clash of the Titans</i>, and <i>Robot
Overlords</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Tamer Hassan has also had roles in many hit TV series including <i>Eastenders, Casualty</i>, <i>The
Bill</i>, <i>NCIS</i>, <i>Dracula</i>, and <i>24: Live Another
Day</i> with Kiefer Sutherland. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">His
memorable film and TV performances have </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">earned the actor from
southeast </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">London</st1:city><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> a cult following in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> and
beyond.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Game of
Thrones</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> is based on George R. R. Martin's books. Season
six, which stars Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Maisie Williams
and Alfie Allen, starts on 24 Apr. 2016. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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previously starred in the drama. She made a guest appearance as Shae in series
one in 2010, before returning as a regular cast member for Game of Thrones
series 2 and was killed off in series 4.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Few artists have achieved as much in their life
as David Bowie. His talents were endless: singer, songwriter, musician,
producer, actor, painter, fashion icon... Since first coming into the public
consciousness in 1969 with the release of his second album <i>David Bowie/Space Oddity</i>, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bowie</st1:place></st1:city>
has proved to be the master of transformation and innovation, his music, image
and assorted personas forever changing and filling our worlds with colour like
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Just over a week ago on 8<sup>th</sup> Jan. – his
69<sup>th</sup> birthday – <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Bowie</st1:city></st1:place>
released his 26<sup>th</sup> studio album <i>Blackstar</i>.
There was no suggestion he was seriously ill. So to wake up on Monday morning
to news of his death following an 18-month battle with cancer was a total
shock. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Bowie</span></st1:place></st1:city><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">’s work had touched and influenced so many people around the world that it
was natural to see such a huge outpouring of grief. We mourned the passing of
our hero in a myriad of ways: tributes online, leaving flowers outside his <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state> apartment and former <st1:state w:st="on">Berlin</st1:state>
home, a singalong of his greatest hits in Brixton, <st1:place w:st="on">South
London</st1:place>, where he was born. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">It was also a time for quiet reflection and to reconnect with his music. Streaming services reported a near 3,000% increase in people listening to David Bowie songs this week. On Friday, 19 of </span><st1:city style="font-size: 13.3333px;" w:st="on">Bowie</st1:city><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">’s albums were listed in the </span><st1:country-region style="font-size: 13.3333px;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">’s Top 100 album charts, 10 of them in the Top 40, with Blackstar entering at number 1.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The vast number of tributes, anecdotes and
articles gave us a fascinating insight into </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bowie</st1:place></st1:city><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">’s life and career, and an opportunity to
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made about this iconic star along with our list of seven lesser known facts
about <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bowie</st1:place></st1:city> and
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<li class="MsoNormal"><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Berlin</span></b></st1:place></st1:state><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Turks inspired track 'Yassassin'<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">While
living in West Berlin between 1976 and 1978, </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Bowie</st1:city></st1:place><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> saw </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Yaşasın
</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">scrawled on a wall in Neukölln, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">a
district </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">popular with Turkish migrant
workers. He asked about and when he found out it was in Turkish, he asked the
Turkish Embassy what it meant. Told it was </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">‘Hooray!
Long Live’,</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Bowie</st1:city><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> was inspired to pen a song
from the view of a Turkish migrant worker who’d left his homeland for a better
life in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">.
A mix of reggae beats and Turkish melodies, </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSfFuNqy1q4"><b>Yassassin</b></a></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><b>
</b>is the fourth track on </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Lodger</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> (1979),
and was also released as a single in </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Holland</st1:city><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> and
</span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Bowie’s
hauntingly beautiful instrumental track </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Neuköln,
</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">with its faux-zurna sound (Bowie playing saxophone), was also said by
critics to be influenced by Germany’s poor Turkish community and their
rootlessness. The song was included on the </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Heroes
</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">(1977) album.</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Bowie</span></b></st1:city></st1:place><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> in Bodrum <o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">A few
years after the death of her husband Charlie Chaplin in 1977, his widow Oona
was said to have struck up a relationship with David Bowie. The two were regular
guests on board </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Theseus of Attica</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, a Greek
private yacht based in </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Rhodes</st1:place><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">. Chaplin regularly
chartered the boat and during 1981 and 1982, she was seen several times docking
into Bodrum with </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bowie</st1:place></st1:city><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></div>
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soundtrack to Labyrinth<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The
multi award-winning producer, arranger and composer helped deliver hits for
many musical luminaries including Aretha Franklin, the Bee Gees, Chaka Khan,
Phil Collins, and Norah Jones. In 1985-6, he worked with David Bowie and Trevor
Jones on the soundtrack to the musical fantasy film <i>Labyrinth</i>, including <i>Underground,
Magic Dance </i>and <i>Within You. </i>Released
in 1986, the film, which starred <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bowie</st1:place></st1:city>
and a young Jennifer Connelly, and its music proved to have enduring quality
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Turkish
multi-instrumentalist Erdal Kızılçay (bass guitar, oud) played alongside David
Bowie in the studio and live for over a decade. He first performed on demos for
the </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Let’s Dance </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">(1983) album</span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">produced by Nile Rogers, with Kızılçay
credited for keyboards and bass on the global number one title track. </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bowie</st1:place></st1:city><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> then got Kızılçay
to play synthesizer, bass, drums, string arrangements, and do some backing
vocals on the Iggy Pop album </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Blah Blah
Blah </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">(1986) that he produced. </span></div>
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His musical talents led <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bowie</st1:place></st1:city>
to call Kızılçay<i>“My invincible Turk”</i>.
He featured on Bowie’s 17<sup>th</sup> studio album: <i>Never Let Me Down</i> (1987) and embarked on two mega world promotional
tours with the star: <i>Glass Spider</i>,
which spawned the <i>Glass Spider</i> (1988)
video album, and the Sound+Vision greatest hits tour in 1990. He also played on
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bowie</st1:place></st1:city>’s
soundtrack for the TV series <i>The Buddha
of Suburbia</i> (1993), and on <i>1. Outside</i>
(1995) – <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bowie</st1:place></st1:city>’s
19<sup>th</sup> studio album.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">In an interview with <i>Roll Magazine </i>in
Feb. 1997, Erdal Kızılçay talked about buying a copy of a Nâzım Hikmet (pictured) book in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city> as a gift for
David Bowie. When he went to give the singer the book, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bowie</st1:place></st1:city> said <i>“Thank you. I already have this”,</i> which totally surprised Kızılçay.
After this, the two would discuss the profound words of the Turkish poet,
playwright and novelist extensively. <br />
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bowie</st1:place></st1:city> was
particularly taken with the romantic communist’s poem <i>Jokond ile Si-Ya-U</i> (<i>Gioconda
and Si-Ya-U</i>, 1929)<i> </i>and told Kızılçay
he wanted to use some of the scenes in a future musical project. He was also
said to have been blown away by Hikmet’s farsighted work in <i>Memleketimden İnsan Manzaraları </i>(<i>Human Landscapes, </i>1966-67<i>).</i></span></div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Bowie</span></st1:city><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">’s first wife Angie was born in
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nicosia</st1:place></st1:city>, as her
English father George Barnett worked as a mining engineer in the Cyprus Mines
Corporation (CMC). An article she penned in 2000 includes details of her and
David holidaying in Denizili (Xeros), near Gemikonağı, and Girne in 1972. <br />
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Turkish Cypriot businessman Altan Houssein, whose father worked with Angie’s father
at CMC recalls meeting <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bowie</st1:place></st1:city>
when he was 17-years-old. The singer, who’d hit the big time with Ziggy
Stardust, came to the CMC Club House where he shared a few beers with the young
Houssein, who said Bowie was “fairly shy”, but happy to express his love of
Cyprus. <br />
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The island featured in the lyrics of <b><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfvn-jzJiAA">Move On</a></i></b>, a song on <st1:city w:st="on">Bowie</st1:city>’s
<i>Lodger</i> (1979) album: <i>“<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region> is my island/ When the
going’s rough / I would love to find you / Somewhere in a place like that”.</i></span></div>
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by Turkish Cypriot DJ Erol Alkan in 1997, this legendary club night in the
heart of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>
quickly became a mecca for fans of alternative music. Every Monday for a decade,
the capital’s coolest, quirkiest clubbers partied alongside music stars as Alkan
and friends played a mash-up of current and classic indie pop, rock, and
electro songs. For the last seven of those ten years <i>Trash</i> would always end the night with <i><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jg4ekLG9Zo">Rock 'n' Roll Suicide</a></b></i> by David Bowie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tracey Emin</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> posted a picture of her with David Bowie
on Twitter, and wrote, “<i>So long my
friend. Thank you for the sound track of my life #DavidBowie”.</i></span></div>
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So long my friend. Thank you for the sound track of my life <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DavidBowie?src=hash">#DavidBowie</a> <a href="https://t.co/glplqdgbRd">pic.twitter.com/glplqdgbRd</a></div>
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İskender Paydaş</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, who has worked with Turkey’s top music
stars, wrote on Twitter, “<i>Yazık ki
seninle birlikte müzik yapma hayalim cok yaklaşmışken artık bu dünyada
gerçekleşemeyecek.Toprağın bol olsun Türk dostu #DavidBowie” (</i>A shame that even though we got real close to realising my
dream of making music with you, it will not be possible in this life. Rest in
peace friend of Turks #DavidBowie)</span></div>
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Yazık ki seninle birlikte müzik yapma hayalim cok yaklaşmışken artık bu dünyada gerçekleşemeyecek.Toprağın bol olsun Türk dostu <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DavidBowie?src=hash">#DavidBowie</a></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial";">Trash founder, DJ & record label boss Erol Alkan </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">posted this on Facebook</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>:</i></span></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial";">Producer, DJ and musician Kıvanç K </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">wrote on his Facebook page: “<i>Idols never die! David Bowie is dead; Long live David Bowie! İlahlar asla ölmez. Çok yaşa David Bowie!</i></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial";">Murat Ertel of Turkish psychedelic band Baba Zula</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">posted photos of his collection of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Bowie</st1:city></st1:place>
albums on the band’s Facebook page and wrote this about their inspiration and hero: “<i>Ilham kaynaklarımızdan müthiş sanatçı devrimci müzisyen David Bowie'yi
yitirmişiz/ Eserleri ile yaşatmaya devam/ We have lost The great Thin White
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London-based male actors of Turkish Cypriot heritage to take part in readings
of her new play, <i>The Gods are Playing
Ninepins, </i>in Hackney next month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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two of the readings at the award-winning <b><a href="http://www.rosemarybranch.com/">Rosemary Branch Theatre</a></b> on 17<sup>th</sup> and 18<sup>th</sup> Feb. The third reading will be at Booth’s
agents’ offices on <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Charlotte
Street</st1:address></st1:street> in central <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> on 19<sup>th</sup> Feb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aged about 18-19 years old and have a strong <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> (‘cockney’) accent. The actors will be
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Striking a fair deal on property could prove tricky for the two Cypriot leaders, <br />Mustafa</span> Akıncı (left) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">& Nikos</span> Anastasiadis</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Two Turkish Cypriot associations are organising a
talk </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">in Turkish in North London next
Sunday, 24 Jan.,</span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> <span lang="EN-GB">about the thorny issue of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region> property
– one of the final matters the two Cypriot leaders will tackle in the current
Peace Talks. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Human rights group Embargoed! and the Vroisha (Yağmuralan)
Association are holding the event in the main hall of the TCCA (</span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Turkish Cypriot Community Association), where keynote
speaker Esat Mustafa will share details of what a comprehensive settlement could
mean for the resolution of the property issue and its likely impact on Cypriot refugees
and current property holders, with a specific focus on British Turkish Cypriots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Mustafa’s talk will start with the
importance and role of property in the current peace talks. He will review how
history and international law have shaped the property policies and regimes on both
sides of the island, and explain the implications of the proposed principle of “Individual
Applications” agreed by the two Cypriot leaders at the negotiators. He will
also offer alternative resolutions to the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region> property issue that could
make for a fairer and more certain outcome for all concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">About
Esat Mustafa and Vroisha </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">One of eight children, Mustafa was born in the <st1:placetype w:st="on">village</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Vroisha</st1:placename>
/ Yağmuralan, located in the foothills of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Troodos</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Mountains</st1:placetype></st1:place>
in the Paphos district, in 1953 and experienced first hand the Cyprus Conflict.
His family, like all the other inhabitants of the village, were forced out of
their homes in 1964. The Greek Cypriot authorities have since razed the village
to the ground and have refused to compensate or allow its former residents to
return. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">As a result, Mustafa, an electrical engineer by
profession, and other villagers formed the Vroisha Association and commenced
legal action against the </span><st1:placename style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Greek</st1:placename><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:placename style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Cypriot-run</st1:placename><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:placetype style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Republic</st1:placetype><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">
of </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">.
Thwarted at every turn by the authorities in the South, their case eventually
went before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which ruled that as the
villagers had not yet exhausted all legal avenues in the </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">South
Cyprus</st1:place><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> courts, the ECHR was unable to intervene in their case.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Mustafa’s extensive experience of the property
regimes in North and South Cyprus, as well as the requirements for preparing
and submitting the Vroisha case to the ECHR make him uniquely placed to give
insights into the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region></st1:place>
property issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Learn
more about the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region>
property issue</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The talk will be chaired by Fahri Zihni, who
heads Embargoed!, which has been campaigning for the end of <st1:place w:st="on">North
Cyprus</st1:place>’ international isolation. In 2006, the pioneering group was
the first to hold a seminar that addressed the property rights of both Greek
and Turkish Cypriot refugees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The issue was brought up to date in a second
seminar they held in 2010, which followed a ruling on the Orams case at the
European Court of Justice and which was subsequently overruled by the landmark
ECHR decision in the Demopoulos case. Read more about these important legal
rulings and Embargoed!’s assessment of the property issue on the Resources
section of their <b><a href="http://embargoed.org/resources.php">website</a>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Event Title:</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">
Çözüm Sürecinde Mülkiyet Meselesi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Date:</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> Sunday
24th January 2016</span> <span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Start Time</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">:
2pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Venue</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">:
Turkish Cypriot Community Association, 628 – 630 Green Lanes, Harringay, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place> N8 0SD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Entry</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">: Free,
but please RSVP as limited number of places. Call 07949 924 728 or email </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="mailto:vroisha@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-US">vroisha@gmail.com</span></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Transport & parking</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">: the venue is well served by public transport, with <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Turnpike Lane</st1:address></st1:street> (Piccadilly
Line) the nearest tube. On street pay-and-display parking is possible in side
streets and in designated bays on the main road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-76077384200981564692016-01-13T11:55:00.000+00:002016-01-13T13:48:31.451+00:00Saudi national named as Sultanahmet suicide bomber<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Turkish authorities have named Nabil Fadli as the
militant behind yesterday’s bombing in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:place></st1:city>’s
historical district of Sultanahmet, which killed at least </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">ten people and injured
fifteen others. Of Syrian heritage, the 28-year-old bomber was born in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Saudi Arabia</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">
and is thought to have become a Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL) operative in
recent years.</span></div>
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joined a party of Germans tourists who had gathered by the Obelisk of
Theodosius, a popular historical landmark in the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Sultanahmet Square</st1:address></st1:street> near the iconic Blue
Mosque to listen to their guide. At about 10.20am local time, the Daesh
militant detonated a bomb killing and maiming many of the bystanders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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police, who found details of the bomber’s identity soon after locating his
mangled remains. It was determined that Fadil had recently crossed into <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region> from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that all victims killed in the Sultanahmet blast were foreigners and that Daesh
was behind the terrorist attack: <i>“The
suicide bomber is a foreign national, who is a member of Daesh,”</i> the PM
said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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addressed a press conference in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ankara</st1:place></st1:city>
yesterday following an urgent security meeting to discuss the deadly attack: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">“The
suicide bomber was identified as a Syrian born in 1988 following an inspection
of a shredded body, and an investigation has been launched into those who have
links to the perpetrator.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Davutoğlu contacted the German Chancellor Angela
Merkel to pass on his condolences. Soon after, in a press conference held in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berlin</st1:place></st1:state>, Merkel called on
the international community to be resolute in the fight against terrorism: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">“International
terrorism has once again showed itself, with its horrible and inhuman face…This
attack also shows us the necessity to confront terrorism in a resolute way,”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> she said, adding that that the government was in close contact with <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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do everything to organise help as soon as possible, in cooperation with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>,”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> said the Chancellor. </span><br />
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including the Hagia Sophia and the nearby Basilica Cistern were closed by the
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Germany</span></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned the country’s
citizens in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place>
to avoid crowds and tourist sites. The country’s Federation of Tour Operators
has also urged German tourists currently in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place> to contact their travel
agents and to follow the advice given by the German Foreign Ministry.</span></div>
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largest tour operator TUI is reported to have offered travellers planning to
visit <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:place></st1:city>
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experienced a near 4% drop in tourists and revenue due to the raging conflict
in neighbouring countries, its own domestic terrorism problems, and the
country’s strained relations with </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Germans currently constitute
the largest number of tourists, accounting for between 11-16 percent of the
total number of foreign visitors to </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> each year.</span></div>
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terrorist attacks carried out by Daesh in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>, although this is the first
by a foreign national. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) rally in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Diyarbakır</st1:place></st1:city>
on 5 June that killed four people. A month later, a Daesh suicide bomber killed
33 social activists on July 20 who had assembled at the <st1:placename w:st="on">Amara</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Cultural</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype>
in Suruç, in southeast <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>,
as they announced plans to build a playground and day centre in the
neighbouring town of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kobane</st1:place></st1:city>,
located just across the Syrian border. On 10 Oct. 2015, two Daesh suicide
bombers killed over 100 people attending a peace rally in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Ankara</st1:city></st1:place> – the country’s worst-ever terrorist
attack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kurdish origin and were said to belong to the same terror cell in Adıyaman, southeast Turkey. The
Sultanahmet bomber was the first Daesh attack on Turkish soil by a foreign
national. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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government quickly moved to impose a media blackout on news coverage about the
Sultanahmet bomb blast. It follows a pattern of censorship in the country
following similar terrorist attacks, a decision the government claims is necessary
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">However, a number of journalists in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region> took to Twitter to criticise the
government's decision, among them Mark Lowen, the BBC's <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place> correspondent, whose post said
the Turkish government <i>"never
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the main opposition party, complained that the broadcast ban
</span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"comes faster than ambulances"</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">
in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-52871427000242828242016-01-09T14:55:00.001+00:002016-01-12T13:20:30.611+00:00Grunge band Duman live in London next week<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">Anticipation is
building for one of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
leading rock bands who return to the capital after a three-year hiatus. Appearing
at the </span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">O2 Academy
Islington n</span></span><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">ext
Sunday, Duman will play an extended set of hits spanning </span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">their 17-year career. </span></span><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">The four piece
band comprises front man Kaan Tangöze, who last year released a solo album, </span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Gölge Etme</span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">, bass guitarist Ari Barokas, Batuhan
Mutlugil on lead guitar and vocals, and drummer Cengiz Baysal.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">Intrigued by <st1:city w:st="on">Seattle</st1:city>’s music scene of the late 80s, which gave the
world Nirvana and Pearl Jam, Tangöze moved to the city on the northwest tip of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>, in the
early 90s and immersed himself fully into grunge rock. He returned to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region> armed
full of new music he had written, forming Mad Madame with Barokas and two
others. The band changed line-up and metamorphosed into Duman, releasing their
debut album </span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Eski Köprünün Altında</span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;"> on pioneering alternative music label NR1
in 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">Their
breakthrough came with second album</span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> Belki Alışman Lazım. </span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">It</span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">contained the hits </span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Haberin Yok
Ölüyorum, Oje</span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">, the
anthemic </span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Bu Akşam,</span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;"> and </span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Her Şeyi Yak </span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">– the latter a cover of a huge hit for Sezen Aksu
ten years earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">With 11 studio
and live music releases under their belt, including <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s first-ever music DVD </span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Bu Akşam</span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;"> (2004), the stalwarts of Turkish contemporary
rock continue to maintain a large and loyal following with their unique blend
of Turkish folk, rock and grunge sounds. </span></em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Among their
biggest hits are </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Yanıbaşımdan </i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">(</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Seni Kendime Sakladım</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">, 2005), </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Helal Olsun </i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">(</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Duman I,</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> 2009), and </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Melankoli
</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">(</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Darmaduman</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">, 2013). </span></div>
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tackles </span><st1:country-region style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">’s
topical political issues through their music. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Their </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Rezil </i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">track (</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Duman I,</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">
2009) courted controversy for lifting and adapting words from the </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">İhlas suresi</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> (a verse of the Kuran): some
accused the band of trying to undermine Islam and promote atheism, but Duman
hit back in an interview with Zaman newspaper, claiming the track was about the
exploitation of religion.</span></div>
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was about the Gezi riots. However, the song had been penned a year earlier, inspired
by the ruling AKP regime’s willingness to deploy violence to combat popular dissent,
typified by police attacks against ODTÜ students seeking to protest Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan when he visited their campus in 2012. The band
released <i>Eyvallah</i> soon after Gezi
erupted in June 2013, the lyrics reflecting the stoic way in which the
protestors endured water cannon, tear gas and baton attacks by Turkish police as
they defend <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:place></st1:city>’s
green spaces and individual freedoms that are being systematically eroded by the
country’s authoritarian government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Duman to be <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
best rock band. Judge for yourselves next week. A few tickets priced £45 are
still available, either online from Ticketweb (with a whopping £5.62 booking
fee added per ticket!) or pay cash and pick up in person from one of these
North London outlets: Rakkas, Limonatta, Mezzo Harringay, Mem & Laz, and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Stone</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Cave</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">More info & tickets: <a href="http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/YDH1701?brand=o2academyislington&camefrom=AMG_ISLINGTON_dmanlndn">www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/AMG_ISLINGTON_dmanlndn </a></span></b></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-65133756108992185302016-01-06T18:02:00.001+00:002016-01-06T18:02:53.533+00:00T-VINE’s biggest stories of 2015<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Hellim Wars was our top story of 2015, as traditional cheese became the new political battleground in Cyprus</i></span></td></tr>
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that grabbed the most attention: the ten best read stories of the year and the ten most popular stories on our social media pages on account of the number of shares,
likes, comments and retweets they received. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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read stories of the year</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hellim Wars</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">8 October 2015. It could have been the perfect recipe to bring the two sides together, but
when Greek Cypriots made a unilateral application to secure protected
status for traditional Cypriot cheese, deliberately excluding Turkish
Cypriot producers in the process, the hellim/halloumi issue turned into a political
battleground. The EU Commission intervened but was it enough to make the
peace? READ FEATURE </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/hellim-wars.html">HERE</a></b></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Are you ready for the
‘Turkashians’? Turkish family in London needed for new mini TV series</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">2 March 2015. By far our biggest story online, who would have thought so many British
Turks would flirt with the idea of being in a reality show. </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">“If you’ve ever watched TV reality
show, Keeping up with the Kardashians, and thought “my family could better
that”, well here’s your chance! Muge Productions is looking for a Turkish
family in London to feature in six 3-minute episodes that will be
presented for airing on Channel 4 Shorts...” </i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">READ FULL STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/are-you-ready-for-turkashians-turkish.html">HERE</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Three quarters of
Maraş (Varosha) illegally occupied by Greek Cypriots’ claims former Evkaf
head</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">28 February 2015. “</span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">A series of conferences in London
by Taner Derviş, the former head of Evkaf, last month has turned on its
head all perceptions about the ownership of the Cypriot town of Maraş.
Among the many bold claims Derviş made were that Evkaf land was never sold
by Turkish Cypriots to the British and evidence gleaned from title deeds
“prove” that Turkish-owned property was “illegally transferred” to mostly
Greek Cypriot owners while the island was under British rule.”</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> READ
FEATURE </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/three-quarters-of-maras-varosha.html">HERE</a> </b></span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></b></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Touker Suleyman - one of the BBC's new Dragons</span></i></td></tr>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Turkish Cypriot
entrepreneur Touker Suleyman joins BBC TV show Dragons' Den</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">19 March 2015. Our readers went wild about the news that Turkish Cypriot businessman was
joining Dragon’s Den as one of three new Dragon’s, making it not only our
third most popular story, but also the third most shared of 2015. READ
FULL STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/turkish-cypriot-entrepreneur-touker.html">HERE</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br /></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Satire magazine mocks President Erdoğan’s comments that he’s less of a sultan, more like...</span></span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">10 February 2015. </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">“President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been morphed into Queen Elizabeth II on the front cover of this month’s Red Dergisi. It follows claims by the President that the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> was a good example for his publicly stated aim of turning <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region> from a Parliamentary into a Presidential system of governance”.</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> READ FULL STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/satire-magazine-mocks-president.html">HERE</a></b></span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Former chair Zehra
Suleyman found guilty of stealing from Blackfen Turkish School</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">12 August 2015. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The
British Turkish community was shocked to learn that a trusted head of a Turkish
school had been caught with their hand in the till. While others would bury
their head in the sand, Blackfen Turkish School’s management committee followed
through to secure a conviction.</span><i>“A former chairwoman of one of </i><st1:city style="font-style: italic;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city><i>’s biggest Turkish schools has
been convicted of stealing £1,965. Zehra Suleyman, who headed Blackfen
Turkish School for six years, was tried at the </i><st1:street style="font-style: italic;" w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Inner London Crown Court</st1:address></st1:street><i> in July and
found guilty of two charges of theft from the school during 2010 and
2011...” </i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">READ FULL STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/turkish-cypriot-entrepreneur-touker.html">HERE</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Turkey's guarantee of
Turkish Cypriot safety is "non-negotiable" warns former Chief
Negotiator</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">2 August 2015. Ergün Olgun,</span><i style="font-size: 10pt;"> </i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">a former Denktas
aide and one of the architects of the 2004 UN-backed Annan Plan, struck a
chord with his comments on Turkey’s role in Cyprus. </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">“Former TRNC Chief Negotiator Ergün Olgun says that only when <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>
enters the European Union and the situation stabilises can there be any
change in the guarantee structure for the whole island. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>
and the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> are all
still Guarantor Powers under the 1960 <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Independence</st1:place></st1:city> Treaty.” </i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">READ FULL
STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/turkeys-guarantee-of-turkish-cypriot.html">HERE</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; text-align: right;">Havva Rebke (left) & Ebru Ellis Gursoy on The X Factor 2015<br /></span></td></tr>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ebru sails through to
bootcamp on the X Factor 2015</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">12 September 2015. </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">“A London Turkish singer wowed all
four judges during the second week of auditions on this year's X Factor to
book her place in bootcamp. Appearing on the 6th September show, 27-year-old
Ebru Gursoy’s rendition of David Guetta and Emelie Sande’s What I Did For
Love received a standing ovation from the audience.” </i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">READ FULL STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/ebru-sails-through-into-bootcamp-on-x.html">HERE</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pioneering Turkey-TRNC
water pipeline is complete</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br /><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">9 August 2015. </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">This innovative feat of engineering was our ninth best read story in 2015: </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">“never before has water been carried for such a distance using a suspended underwater pipeline”.</i> </i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">READ FULL STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/pioneering-turkey-trnc-water-pipeline.html">HERE</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ali Babutsa’s daughter
Havva is through to the next round of The X Factor</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br /><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">19 September 2015. A chip of the old block or what? Following in her father’s footsteps, who
was on our 2014 Top 10 list of the biggest stories, 2015 was all about
Havva. “</span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">Havva Rebke, the oldest
daughter of well-known Turkish singer Ali ‘Babutsa’ Sönmez, has made it
through to this year’s bootcamp on ITV’s hit show The X Factor. The
21-year-old was put through with ‘yes’ votes from all four judges
following her audition singing Jessie J’s Masterpiece.” </i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">READ FULL
STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/ali-babutsas-daughter-havva-is-through.html">HERE</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></li>
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<br />10 October 2015. Our response to the horrific bombing of a peace rally in Ankara in October
became our most shared story of 2015<i>.
</i>SEE <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Tvinemedia/photos/pcb.935680103172959/935679493173020/?type=3&theater">HERE</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hande Yener live at the
HMV Forum</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">8 May 2015. When Hande Yener re-tweeted our story, it
went huge! Sadly the concert never took place – let’s hope Turkey’s pop
princess makes an appearance in London in 2016. READ STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/hande-yener-live-at-hmv-forum.html">HERE</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br /></span></li>
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entrepreneur Touker Suleyman joins BBC TV show Dragons' Den</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">19 March 2015. Our fifth best-read story was also the third most virally
shared. READ STORY <b><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/turkish-cypriot-entrepreneur-touker.html">HERE</a> </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Murdered Turkish
Cypriots Hasan Nural Cevdet Ezel and Özel Reşat Kansoy laid to rest after
52 years</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />15 December 2015. A bitter-sweet moment as the remains
of Turkish Cypriots, missing for over half-a-century, are returned to
their families. Photo (above) is of Özel & Ülker Kansoy, who married in 1960.
Their first child had just been born when Özel was abducted and killed. READ STORY <b><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/murdered-turkish-cypriots-hasan-nural.html">HERE</a> </b></span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p><br /><br /></o:p></span></b></li>
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Gallipoli</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">25 April 2015. Posted on the centenary anniversary of
the start of the land campaign at Çanakkale/Gallippoli with the immortal words
of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk about the </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">“Johnnies
and the Mehmets”</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">. READ STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/we-remember-battle-of-gallipoli-25.html">HERE</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></li>
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psychedelic kings BaBa ZuLa on their musical idols, best gigs & ambition
to play...</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">16 November 2015. They are one of
Turkey's coolest bands. Here's our interview with frontman Murat Ertel in
advance of their sensational London gig. READ STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/turning-20-turkeys-psychedelic-kings.html">HERE</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></li>
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President Erdoğan...</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />10 February 2015. Oh how we loved Red Magazine’s front cover of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan morphing
into the British Queen, which went viral as soon as we posted it<i>.</i> READ STORY <b><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/satire-magazine-mocks-president.html">HERE</a></b></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Levent Büyükuğur on
Frescobaldi and his never-ending Italian love affair</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">30 June 2015. Credited with revolutionising Istanbul’s nightlife and
restaurant scene – his diners and clubs include Changa, Lucca, Kitchenette
and Angelique – Levent Büyükuğur now has London firmly in his sights. READ STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/levent-buyukugur-on-frescobaldi-and-his.html">HERE</a> </b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /><br /></span></li>
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evening with Emre Aracı as we 'waltzed with Sultans'</span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">6 December 2015. Transported to a bygone era of elegant balls along
the banks of the Bosphorus when the Ottoman sultans listened to and composed
European classical music. READ STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/review-exquisite-evening-with-emre-arac.html">HERE</a> </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Water Diviner: Russell
Crowe's big-hearted movie the "perfect tribute for the Gallipoli
centenary"</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">30
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Crowe’s award-winning directorial debut about an Australian father who goes in
search of his three sons missing in action in Gallipoli 1915 was not only
filmed in Turkey, but also featured two leading Turkish actors – Cem Yılmaz and
Yılmaz Erdoğan – guaranteeing Turkish interest<i>.</i></span>READ STORY </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://tvinemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/the-water-diviner-russell-crowes-big.html">HERE</a></b><br /><br /><br /></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">When a 230kg meteoroid exploded and fell on small mountain village
in eastern <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>
in the autumn, few could have imagined the wealth it would generate for its 3,200
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Long caught up in the crossfire between Kurdish PKK militants and
the Turkish army, Sarıçiçek villagers assumed the explosion they heard around
midnight on September 2<sup>nd</sup> and the illuminated sky was as a result of
the recently resumed conflict. When small pieces of debris started to rain down
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">On closer inspection, shopkeeper Mehmet Nezir Ergün realised the
black rocks that had littered his garden were in fact pieces of meteorite. He
informed officials at nearby <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Bingöl</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, who sent over
a team of scientists. Confirming Ergün’s discovery, the university’s Prof. İskender
Demirkol then notified NASA, the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research
Agency, and his academic colleagues in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Physics Department, said Sarıçiçek’s meteorite shower was extremely rare – it was
only the 21<sup>st</sup> such event to be recorded in the world. He and fellow scientists
concluded that the meteorite originated from <i>Vesta</i>, one of the largest asteroids in the solar system that had
first been observed by a NASA spacecraft in 2007. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="text-align: start;">Sarıçiçek villagers on the hunt for outer space treasure. </span>Photos: Samsun Kent Haber</span></i></td></tr>
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the meteorite was of the precious<i> Howardite</i>
variety. A single gram of this glistening grainy rock, which contains up to 60
different elements including titanium and uranium, can fetch £40 on the open
market. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">As details of the discovery seeped out, dealers from around the
world descended on Sarıçiçek, prompting a modern day gold rush. Every man,
woman and child in the village was out in search of this outer space treasure to
sell to collectors, some finding pieces as large as 4-5 kilos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Their commercial savviness has captured global media attention. Over
the past few weeks, they have reported on how Sarıçiçek turned rich overnight,
with villagers making an estimated £1 million from meteorite sales, allowing many
to splash out on new homes and cars in time for the New Year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tax the villagers on their sudden good fortune. When officers from the Bingöl
Tax Office came to the village, many were upset that their divine gift was
liable to a financial levy. The Turkish public agreed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Turkey's deputy PM <span style="text-align: start;">Mehmet Şimşek </span>asked the public whether <br />the govt. should tax the <span style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Sarıçiçek villagers </span></span> </i></span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In a smart PR move, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet
Şimşek decided to test public opinion via Twitter. When he asked <i>‘whether the Sarıçiçek, villagers be taxed
on the profits they made from selling meteorites?’</i> 28% of the 34,037 people
who responded said yes, while a whopping 72% said no. Şimşek then announced the
villagers <i>“will not be taxed because
their profits are not of continuous nature.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also gone down in meteoritic history. The International Astronomical Union broke
with usual custom to name the September meteorite shower after the village: henceforth known as the
<i>Sarıçiçek Meteor</i>.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-29038624067505857702015-12-19T19:18:00.000+00:002015-12-19T19:18:00.792+00:00From Gezi to rakı, music, politics and more: Sean Bw Parker’s ‘Salt in the Milk – Ten Years in Istanbul’<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Those
who’ve run into Sean Bw Parker will know he’s never shy about stating his mind.
Having spent a decade in <st1:city w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:city> (2004-2014),
the British-born writer and musician has witnessed first-hand the huge
political, economic and social transformation of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>,
inspiring him to pen <i>Salt in the Milk</i>
<i>– Ten Years in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:place></st1:city>.</i> Part factual, part fictional, it
captures the zeitgeist of one of the world’s greatest cities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Parker’s
incisive views on the country sit alongside autobiographical tales and highly
entertaining reviews and interviews (both real and imagined) with a host of
cool cultural figures, from David Bowie, to Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh,
Morrissey's songwriting partner Boz Boorer, comedy writer extraordinaire David
Stubbs, and the ‘Terror of Fleet St’ herself, Julie Burchill. It is, as Parker
says, <i>“A strange ride between Europe and <st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place>, through the prism of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the
AKP's cultural revolution.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">You
can virtually hear and taste <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:place></st1:city>
from the book’s opening scene with its call to prayer and <i>işkembe çorbası</i> (sheep intestine) soup, as fictional aristocrat Anthony
H. Wolfstadt recounts through an alcoholic haze about life in the city and his
murky expat dealings. And so begins Parker’s witty, acerbic and engaging
collection of essays: a mad mix of music, politics and culture that encompasses
his views on the Gezi riots and the role of women in Turkish society, through
to live music reviews of the great and the good that perform in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:place></st1:city>, among them Dr
John, The Pixies, and Tori Amos. It makes for a fascinating journey about this
unique country, which ends with Parker reflecting upon <i>‘rakı and ruin’</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sean Bw Parker & friends enjoying the good life in Istanbul, 2014. </i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Its
crazy style prompts James Cook to describe the book as, <i>“Clive James meets Hunter S Thompson…a gutsy, honest and emotionally
graphic account of one Englishman's unique experiences in the confused cultural
melting pot that is modern day <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:city></st1:place></i></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">.”</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">In
Parker’s newly released follow-up book, <i>Genuflecting
Before the Pork-Barrel Demagogues,</i> we pick up on the adventures of the
shady Anthony H. Wolfstadt, newly deported back to Britain after outstaying his
welcome in Turkey by a decade. He tries to leave his alcoholic, ex-colonial
ways behind and to readjust to a culture he was never really a part of in the
first place. Still recovering from the political hangover of an increasingly
Islamified <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
Wolfstadt discovers that things are not much better in the surveillance society
of the familiar yet strange homeland that he has been thrust back into.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Two
very interesting reads, download or purchase them as a paperback from Amazon or
<b><a href="https://www.createspace.com/5868760">Createspace</a>.</b> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">About Sean Bw Parker</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Born
in <st1:city w:st="on">Exeter</st1:city> in 1975, Sean Bw Parker now resides in
Chichester having spent a decade in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:city></st1:place>,
where he pursued his twin loves of music and writing. The singer-songwriter and
guitarist formed a number of bands whilst in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>, his best known being indie
rock outfit <i>Scorpio Rising, </i>and worked
with diverse artists such as experimental musician Ettuspadix. He has also
appeared on stage alongside the likes of Ed Harcourt, John Robb's The Membranes
and Turkish art rock band Replikas in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s notable music venues and
festivals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">To
date he has released six albums and through his Seraglio Point Productions
label many more for artists such as Mikey Georgeson (The Vessel from David
Devant and His Spirit Wife), The Steve Dior Band and Metamono. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">A
prolific writer, Parker’s articles have been published in Cosmopolitan, Time
Out, NME.com, USA Today, and the Multicultural Guide. He is also regular
contributor for Louder Than War. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">A
stammerer himself, Parker presented a TED talk at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:city></st1:place>'s Kadir Has University titled <i>'Stammering and Creativity'</i>, one of the
most watched internet videos on the subject.</span></div>
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has his own entry in </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Ekşi Sözlük</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> (‘Sour
Dictionary’) – one of </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">’s
largest online communities where users add their descriptions and views on
topical issues, high-profile people, places, and events. Comments include about Parker's “entertaining English classes”, and how, as a well-known [Istanbul] personality, he is always among the first to come to mind when sending out event
invites via Facebook.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-13502021398105567402015-12-15T12:21:00.001+00:002015-12-15T13:44:10.397+00:00Murdered Turkish Cypriots Hasan Nural Cevdet Ezel and Özel Reşat Kansoy laid to rest after 52 years<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">A Turkish Cypriot police officer has been laid to rest 52 years
after his murder. Hasan Nural Cevdet Ezel was buried in Lefkoşa with full
military honours on 27 November, in the presence of his family and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Officer Ezel had been on duty at Koççinodrimitya Police Station,
located just outside of the capital, when he was abducted in December 1963 by
EOKA forces. The 25-year-old was never seen again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Years later, following an appeal by writer Sevgül Uludağ, who has
been instrumental in helping to piece together information about Cypriots
missing during the conflict, a Greek Cypriot came forward to give details about
Hasan Ezel’s fate. According to his testimony, on 28 December officer Ezel and three
fellow Turkish Cypriot police officers were abducted and taken to a hill a few kilometres
away from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Koççinodrimitya</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Village</st1:placetype></st1:place>. All four were
shot and dumped in a well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dubbed ‘Bloody Christmas’ in 1963 was part of a brutal coup by Greek Cypriots.
They seized power by killing dozens of Turkish Cypriots, while forcing
thousands more from their homes in a climate of fear that would last for 11
years until <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
intervention in July 1974.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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information helped the UN Missing Persons Committee to locate the remains of
Hasan Ezel and return them to his family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">His nephew, businessman and Olay newspaper owner Nural Ezel,
travelled to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region>
to attend the funeral, which was led by his aunts, Hasan Ezel’s sisters Meral
Tektan and Sevim Tanaydın. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The sisters told media about how hard their brother’s
disappearance had been on the family, especially for their mother who prayed daily
for news about her missing son. Sevim Tanaydın said she died of a broken heart
18 years ago having never discovered his fate, as did his two brothers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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anger is huge. We should not trust Greek Cypriots. If they can kill an innocent
person like my brother, they can do anything. His only crime was to be a Turk.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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years. I never got to see him. I am proud to be named after him. I have tried
to be worthy of this. I am glad he finally has a proper grave, but it is a bitter
sweet moment for me. There should never be a repeat of this. Let there be no
more wars.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">On 11 December, Özel Reşat Kansoy, a teacher and writer who had
also been abducted and murdered by EOKA over 50 years ago, was buried with full
military honours in Lefkoşa. Among those attending his funeral was TRNC
President Mustafa Akıncı.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Born and raised in a village just outside of Limasol, Kansoy was
aged 31 when he and a friend, Bayar Piskobulu, disappeared, along with their
van driver Erol İsmail, on 18 April 1964. Their remains were found earlier this
year in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Maşera</st1:placename>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Following the Greek Cypriot coup in December 1963, the island had
been plunged into inter-communal fighting. During a lull, Kansoy decided to
take his elderly father Reşat, suffering from a serious liver disorder, to a
hospital in the capital. After being treated, his father returned to Limasol
safely. Özel stayed on in Lefkoşa. He and Piskobulu then got a lift from Erol
İsmail, who had a delivery of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region>
cognac to make in Limasol. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Originally all from Limasol, </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB">Ülker
Kansoy<span class="apple-converted-space"> with </span></span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB">Mustafa </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Akıncı </i></span><i><span lang="EN-GB">at the funeral of her husband. Photo Detay Kibris</span></i></span></td></tr>
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which reported the three Turkish Cypriots as missing in an article on 21 April
1964. It stated that they had set off at 4.30pm in the afternoon. According
to friends, their last known sighting was on the outskirts of Lefkoşa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Well-known and well-liked, the inspirational Kansoy had married a
fellow teacher, Ülker, in 1960 and became a father to a baby girl, İnanç, six
months prior to his disappearance. While the family had long since accepted
that he had been murdered, the discovery of his remains brought to the fore the
pain of his loss by a wife in the prime of her life and a daughter who was
deprived of the love and support of a father. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">The TRNC President offers words of comfort to the relatives of </span></i><i>Özel Kansoy. </i><i><span lang="EN-GB">Photo Detay Kibris</span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The TRNC President, also from Limasol, and his wife Meral, along
with many other notables joined Özel Reşat Kansoy’s relatives and family
friends to mourn his loss at the funeral last Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Remains
of 618 missing Cypriots returned</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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Reşat Kansoy and Hasan Nural Cevdet Ezel were discovered by the</span> <b><a href="http://www.cmp-cyprus.org/">Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus</a></b> (CMP). </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">This bi-communal body
was established </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;">in
1981 by the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities with
the participation and support of the United Nations. A total of 1,508 Greek
Cypriots and 493 Turkish Cypriots were reported missing during the
Cyprus Conflict that occurred between 1963 and 1974. The CMP’s objective is to
recover, identify, and return to their families the remains of these 2001 missing
persons.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">To date, the CMP has returned the remains of 618 people to their relatives,
148 of them Turkish Cypriot. A further 1,017 bodies have been found on
excavated sites and exhumed, and now await identification. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">CMP staff carefully piece together the remains of missing Cypriots, May 2014. Photo: Al Jazeera</span></i></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Some 20 million Euros have been donated by the EU, the Greek and
Turkish Cypriot authorities, and many countries around the world to assist the
work of the CMP. Approximately half the money has been used for excavation and
exhumations, a third on genetic identification, with the remainder on
anthropological analysis.</span></div>
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made with the support of the EU. You can watch the 20-minute clip </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.cmp-cyprus.org/about-the-cmp/digging-for-a-future-documentary/">here</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">. </span></div>
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Turkey</span></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> will face
reigning champions <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>, the
<st1:placename w:st="on">Czech</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Republic</st1:placetype>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Croatia</st1:country-region> as its
group-stage opponents at the UEFA European Championship in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region> next
summer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The draw for Euro 2016 was made in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city> yesterday afternoon and televised live
worldwide, with the national coaches of the 24 teams looking on. The
competition includes hosts France, world champions <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>,
as well as <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wales</st1:place></st1:country-region>, who were
both drawn in the same group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Group D opponents as <i>“tough”</i>, but remained upbeat: <i>“Whatever the result is at
the end, we are here, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
and we will be in this race.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a late flourish with its qualifying group matches. The team beat Iceland 1-0 at
home in its final game in October, while nearest rivals Holland lost 2-3 at
home to group leaders the Czech Republic, allowing Turkey to grab a place in
the Euro 2016 Finals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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D matches with a game against <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Croatia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
on 12<sup>th</sup> June, with all three group games taking place in a 10-day
period. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>’s group match
dates and (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>)
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">SUNDAY 12TH JUNE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Spain</span></st1:country-region> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">vs. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>, 20:00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Czech Rep vs. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place>, 20:00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the final 16 of the knockout stages, which start on 25 June. The final will be
played on Sunday 10<sup>th</sup> July.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:placetype w:st="on">Republic</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Ireland</st1:placename>,
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">A scientist from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>,
now based in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
has been recognised for his vital scientific discovery of how cells repair
damaged DNA. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">On Thursday 10 December, Professor Aziz Sancar was one of three to
receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from King Carl XVI Gustaf of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place> at the Stockholm Concert Hall, after the orchestra played
a rendition of Mozart’s <i>Turkish March</i>.
His family, the Turkish ambassador to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sweden</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and several Turkish
journalists were among those the professor had invited to the award ceremony, which was
televised live to the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">In the evening, the Swedish Royal Family hosted a magnificent banquet
at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Stockholm</st1:place></st1:city>'s
City Hall in honour of the winners. Each Nobel Laureate arrived with a member
of the royal family, with Princess Christina – the Swedish King’s youngest
sister – accompanying Prof. Aziz Sancar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">From a rural village in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region> to Nobel
Laureate</span></span></b></div>
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journey given his humble beginnings in rural <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">He was born in Savur, near Mardin in southeast <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>, in 1946,
the seventh of eight siblings. Although his parents were illiterate, they knew
the value of education and did all they could to ensure their children
completed their schooling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">A gifted student, Sancar also showed promise at football. He was
the goalkeeper for his high school team and trialled for the Turkish national
youth football team. He dreamt of success in both, but when it was clear his
life was not to be as a top footballer, he dedicated himself to his studies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">He graduated first in his class from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>’s
Faculty of Medicine in 1969. After two years working as a doctor near his home
province, he decided to pursue a career in biochemistry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">In 1971, he was awarded a PhD scholarship by TUBITAK (the Turkish
Scientific and Technological Research Council) as part of the NATO Science
Fellowship Programme. This grant enabled Sancar to move to the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> in 1973, where he studied
molecular biology, completing his Ph.D. on <i>the
photo-reactivating enzyme of E.coli</i> from the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Texas</st1:placename>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Dallas</st1:city></st1:place>, in 1977. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">After his graduation, as he could not get a postdoc position, he took
up a laboratory technician’s position at the Yale University School of
Medicine <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">– </span>one of the leading centres for DNA repair research. Five years later,
he accepted an offer to join the University of North Carolina School of
Medicine as an associate professor in Biochemistry. He is now the university’s <i>Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry
and Biophysics</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Since the 1980s, he has been investigating the <i>Photoenzymic Repair of UV-Damaged DNA</i>.
Several NATO Collaborative Research Grants have helped Sancar and his
colleagues to pursue their important scientific studies, which eventually resulted
in the Nobel Prize-winning work that was internationally recognised this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The Turkish professor has won multiple awards during his career,
both in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region> and in his
native <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
They include: Young Researcher of the Year from the US National Science
Foundation (1984), the TÜBİTAK Science Award (1997), and the Vehbi Koç Award (2007).
In 2005, he became the first member of Turkish origin to be elected to the
American National Academy of Sciences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">This year, he and his two colleagues, Tomas Lindahl and Paul
Modrich, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their mechanistic studies of
DNA repair. Prof. Sancar’s contribution was to map the mechanism that cells use
to repair UV damage to DNA. This discovery gives us a better understanding of
how our bodies fix DNA mutations caused through aging, serious illnesses, and also
through the use of harsh medical treatments such as chemotherapy, which also
damage DNA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">On being informed of his award by Adam Smith of the Nobel
Foundation in a telephone call back in October, Sancar said: <i>“I am of course honoured to get this
recognition for all the work I've done over the years, but I'm also proud for
my family and for my native country and my adopted country, and especially for
Turkey it's quite important.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">He has dedicated his Nobel Prize to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the
founder of modern <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
who placed huge importance on the education of the republic’s citizens,
especially girls. It is an aspect Prof. Sancar has also drawn attention to
following his new-found fame, also emphasising the need for Turkish girls to be
allowed to complete their schooling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Aziz Sancar is the third person born in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place> to receive the prestigious
Nobel Prize. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;">The first was George Seferis. Of ethnic Greek origin, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px;">Seferis</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;"> was born
in Urla, near İzmir, in 1900. His family moved to </span><st1:city style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Athens</st1:city><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;">
in 1914 and after graduating from university, he joined </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;">’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, rising through the ranks to become a leading
diplomat. He was also a renowned writer and poet, and it was "<i>his eminent
lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of
culture"</i> which brought him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Forty three years later, another writer from </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> – Orhan
Pamuk – also received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Istanbul-born
best-selling novelist has had his books translated into 60 different languages,
making him one of </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">’s
best-known literary exports. Explaining why he had been awarded the Nobel Prize
in 2006, the Swedish academy said: </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"In
the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city, [Pamuk] has discovered
new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures."</i></div>
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the Nobel Foundation is a private institution established in 1900, based on the
will of Alfred Nobel. In line with his wishes, each year the Foundation
oversees the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or
Medicine, Literature and Peace, for those whose work offers <i>“the greatest benefit to mankind”.</i> The
Foundation also organises a range of related activities such as the Nobel
Symposia, which has been held annually since 1965 to enable the discussion of vital
scientific developments or topics of primary cultural or social significance, with
the contributions published in a book and online.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-33597490106762254262015-12-06T14:57:00.000+00:002015-12-06T15:13:51.114+00:00Review: an exquisite evening with Emre Aracı as we 'waltzed with Sultans'<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">By İpek Özerim</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">On
27 Nov., <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chelsea</st1:place></st1:city>’s
Cadogan Hall played host to an exquisite evening of music celebrating the
European classical music traditions of the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Ottoman Court</st1:address></st1:street>. Under the expert guidance
of conductor and composer Dr Emre Aracı (one of the world’s leading authorities
on Ottoman classical music), the Chamber Ensemble of London performed 12 original
compositions in a style not usually associated with Turks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">During
the 2-hour concert (see a short clip of it <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf_YcfIGnBQ">here</a></b>),
organised by the Yunus Emre Institute and the Turkish Culture and Information
Office in London, we heard hidden gems from the inner sanctuaries of the
Ottoman rulers: waltzes, polkas and marches that had been composed by masters
of music resident in Constantinople (Istanbul), as well as members of the
Ottoman Imperial family. In between each, Dr Aracı gave a short overview about
the piece and the background to its creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">The programme opened with Jean-Baptiste Lully’s
(1632-1687) grand <i>Marche pour la
Cérémonie des Turcs</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The prolific Italian-born composer worked in the French
court of King Louis IV and is regarded as the father of the <i>Baroque </i>style of music, which was in
evidence here. Dr Aracı arrived on stage playing a<i> </i>sistrum-like instrument with bells that kept the beat, in keeping
with the traditions of a Janissary (Turkish military) band.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: right;">Using slides & words, Dr </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: start;">Emre Aracı gave insights into each of the compositons & the era they were written in. </span></i></span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: right;">Photo: Yunus Emre Institute London / Facebook</i></td></tr>
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Cope, was the second piece. It was written in honour of Yusuf Agah Efendi – the
first resident Ottoman envoy to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region>
– who arrived in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>
in 1793. A highly cultured individual, the Ottoman ambassador spoke English,
Greek and Italian, and became a regular attendee and host of dinners, concerts
and balls attended by English aristocrats and foreign dignitaries.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"who knew how affected the Sultans had been by European classical music, or that they had written such masterpieces?"</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">European
classical traditions became more apparent in the Ottoman court with the growing
presence of international composers in<b> </b><st1:place w:st="on">Constantinople</st1:place>. One of the most important was Giuseppe
Donizetti, the eldest brother of renowned Italian opera composer Gaetano
Donizetti. Giuseppe arrived in the city in 1828 as the <i>Instructor General of the Imperial Ottoman Music</i> to the military
bands and the family of Sultan Mahmud II. Expecting to stay just a few years,
he remained until his death 28 years later in 1856 and became affectionately
known by Turks as ‘Donizetti Pasha’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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next two compositions we hear are by the Donizetti brothers, marches dedicated
to Sultan Mahmud II and Sultan Abdulmecid respectively. These were followed by
the Charles Louis Napoléon d’Albert’s <i>Sultan’s
Polka</i> and Callisto Guatelli Pasha’s <i>Marche
de L’Éxposition Ottomane, </i>which concluded the first half, where foreign
composers had created music for the Sultans<i>.</i></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: right;">Dr </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: start;">Emre Aracı - one of the world's leading experts in Ottoman classical music. </span></i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: right;">Photo: Yunus Emre Institute London / Facebook</i></td></tr>
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second half of the concert was dedicated to compositions by the Ottoman Sultans
and members of their family, starting with the delightful <i>Schiarky </i>by Sultan Mahmud II (1785-1839). This was followed by a
number of waltzes: </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sultan Abdülaziz’s (1830-1876) <i>Invitation à la Valse, </i>Rifat Bey’s (1820-1888) </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Prière pour Sultan Murad V, </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and Sultan Murad V’s (1840-1904) <i>Valse en Mi Bémol Majeur. </i>One could<i> </i>imagine the elegant balls of a bygone
era, when high culture reigned along the banks of the Bosphorus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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evening concluded with two marches. The first by Fehime Sultan (1875-1929), an
Ottoman princess and daughter of Sultan Murad V, who wrote <i>Marche L’Union National, </i>and Burhaneddin Efendi (1885-1949) – the
son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II – and his glorious <i>Grande Marche.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><i> </i></span><b style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Waltzes with Sultans: a glorious past that needs to be more widely recognised and celebrated."</i></span></b></div>
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to audience members afterwards, it was clear that for many of us the evening
was a complete eye-opener. We are used to the wonderful musical legacy of the
Ottomans and the east, but who knew how deeply affected the latter-day Sultans
had been by European classical music, or that they themselves had written such
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Kemal Atatürk and the newly created Turkish republic of 1923 are clearly mistaken.
As </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Waltzes with Sultans </i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">demonstrated,
it was the Ottomans who seeded a love of European music and culture some one hundred
years earlier. It’s a glorious past that needs to be more widely recognised and
celebrated.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-35148280344717683442015-11-19T00:33:00.000+00:002015-11-19T00:33:24.307+00:00Talk: Turkish Cypriots, the Battle of Gallipoli and the plan to return Cyprus to Ottoman Turkish control<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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of the Battle of Çanakkale (Gallipoli). Organised by the Cezire Association, speakers
Ertan Karpazlı and Mustafa Kureyşi will put the spotlight on the role of the
Turks of Cyprus during this famous battle and in the years immediately after.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1915, and how their role continued into the Turkish War of Independence, which
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specialist in Cypriot history and Islam, is: <i>Turkish prisoners of war in <st1:city w:st="on">Famagusta</st1:city>
and the organisation for union with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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happened to the Ottoman Turks caught as prisoners of war (PoWs) by the British during
the Battle of Çanakkale and brought to British-occupied <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region>. It
includes an incredible plan to rescue them and to start a revolt to return <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region> to
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Venue address: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Turkish
Cypriot Community Association (TCCA)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">, 628-630 Green Lanes, Harringay, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place> N8 OSD</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-6463281659044193432015-11-18T18:42:00.000+00:002015-11-18T18:42:46.578+00:00Free London screening of Breath of the Beloved / Mâşuk'un Nefesi<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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is eager to perform the <i>mevlit</i> (a
hymn about the birth of the Prophet Muhammed) just as it was hundreds of years
ago. He sets out to learn by <i>meşk </i>(one-to-one
training in the traditional arts), an increasingly rare form of teaching given
the dwindling number of master practitioners. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to ask to become his pupil. The master, Mustafa Başkan, turns out to be Turkey’s
leading <i>mevlitçi.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Set in modern times and told as a docu-drama,
this classic student-master story is an authentic depiction of receiving <i>meşk. </i>Director Murat Pay captures<i> </i>the special bond between the pupil and
teacher who together journey back hundreds of years to the roots of Turkish
classical music, visually demonstrating the importance of the tradition of <i>mevlid-i şerifii,</i> and the joy and
comfort it brings Muslims during births, deaths, and life’s other critical moments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Emre Institute, 10 Maple Street, London W1T 5HA<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-50099864747114620742015-11-16T10:52:00.000+00:002015-11-16T11:49:25.994+00:00Turning 20: Turkey’s psychedelic kings BaBa ZuLa on their musical idols, best gigs and ambition to play in Antarctica<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;">By </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">İpek Özerim</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Described as
“art-anarchists”, BaBa ZuLa have carved out a name as fine purveyors of
alternative Anatolian music, a hip psychedelic blend of electro, dub, funk,
rock ‘n’ folk. Lyrically conscious, their other-worldly Oriental dance beats,
playful dress sense, and surreal live performances have gained them a huge
global following.</span></div>
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featured in Fatih Akın’s seminal film <i>Crossing
the Bridge: The Sound of <st1:city w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:city> (2005), </i>and
the band remains an international reference point for those wanting to dig
deeper into the progressive politics and sounds of contemporary <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Their
origins date back to their student days at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Boğaziçi</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
in the late 1980s, when founder members Osman Murat Ertel, Levent Akman and
Emre Onel were all part of a musical collective called Zen. They started out playing
psychedelic rock, but quickly decided improvising was more fun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The 1996 film that gave birth to BaBa ZuLa</i></span></td></tr>
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1996, a chance film project resulted in the need for a second band. A university
friend, Turkish Cypriot film director Derviş Zaim, wanted Zen to do the
soundtrack for his new movie <i>Tabutta
Rövaşata </i>(<i>Somersault in the Coffin</i>).
After watching it, most of Zen refused to be involved, but Ertel, Akman and
Onel liked the film and so formed a mini band they called BaBa ZuLa (the name
means ‘Big Secret’) to do the music.</span></div>
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its release, the film won multiple awards, pushing the trio into the spotlight.
A live concert led to even more invites, prompting them to co-opt American
bassist William MacBeath and, through him, saxophonist Ralph Carney for their
performances. Guest musicians have been a regular feature of the band ever
since.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Over
the past two decades, their collaborators have included <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place> dub master Mad Professor, Jamaican
reggae stars Sly and Robbie, and Dr. Das (Asian Dub Foundation), as well as Turkish
Romani clarinet virtuoso Selim Sesler and iconic actor Tuncel Kurtiz, whose
distinctive vocals appear on several BaBa ZuLa tracks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the band’s line-up, their musical journey has also been fluid. They have
released eight studio albums to date, with <i>Ruhani
Oyun Havaları / Psychebelly Dance Music</i> (2003), produced by Mad Professor,
and <i>Kökler / Roots</i> (2008) among their
best known internationally. The band’s knack of harmonising traditional Turkish
instruments with western beats without ever diluting their Anatolian identity
has made them firm favourites at home, while propelling them onto the global
stage as one of Turkey’s most successful musical exports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Sly & Robbie: one of BaBa ZuLa's many collaborators</i></span></td></tr>
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current album, <i>34 Oto Sanayi</i>,
released last November, is their most political. It’s named after the location
of their music studios on an industrial estate full of garages and a few artists’
studios, dwarfed by the newly-appearing skyscrapers that threaten to consume the
whole of old Istanbul. The album’s eight short tracks cover everything from bigotry
to women, minorities, and a song titled <i>Epic
Resistance / Direniş Destanı</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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surprisingly, the Turkish government is not keen, but BaBa ZuLa remain
undeterred. Their fans regard them as <i>‘kent
âşıkları’</i> – modern city minstrels whose musical poetry brings the problems
of ordinary folk to the fore, while helping to spread the love of life, God and
people.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial";"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">BaBa ZuLa live in London on 22 Nov.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">This
Sunday, 22 November, </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/baba-zula-istanbul-psychedelia-tickets-19156129499">BaBa ZuLa will be playing at Epic in Dalston</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, east </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, as part of their
20th anniversary world tour. We asked Murat Ertel about his inspirations and
what’s next for </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">’s
finest psychedelics.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I
always want to do what I really want. Realising dreams is one of the best parts
of life. Being different has never been a priority. If you decide to stay as
your original self and try not to follow success formulas, then you find
yourself tagged as different for sure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Great
troubadour musicians visiting our family home, like Ruhi Su and Aşık İhsani,
were my early Turkish heroes. Then I began listening to Turkish psychedelia,
[artists] like Barış Manço and Fikret Kızılok. When I started going to high
school, Santana, Hendrix and The Doors were among my idols.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><i>Murat Ertel’s musical idols include Jimi Hendrix (left) & Barış Manço</i> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">My
family. They [father Mengü Ertel, mother Ülfet Selçuk, uncles İlhan and Turhan
Selçuk] were very well known in my country and pretty successful
internationally, and had many similar friends, so I didn't have to decide to be
an artist. I immediately began creating. They also made no compromise for fame
or fortune till the end of their lives, which deeply inspired me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and where are you all from?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I
sing, and play the electric <i>saz</i>, <i>Cura</i>, synthesiser, percussion, and <i>Theremin</i>. Levent Akman plays spoons,
cymbals, gongs, and percussion. Özgür Çakırlar plays the <i>darbuka</i>, drums, <i>bender</i>,
[frame drum], and percussion. Melike Şahin sings. And Periklis Tsoukalas plays
the electric oud, vocals and synth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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except Özgür lives in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:city></st1:place>.
I think only me and Melike were born here. Our families are originally from <st1:city w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:city>, though Levent's family is also from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:city></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
21st century sound of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:city></st1:place>.
We have so many influences, like dub, punk, funk, rock etc. mingled with our
geographic culture. In the past, it was always me writing the lyrics and
melodies, and Levent producing the rhythms, but since the last album, there's
more lyrical input from Melike and melodies from Periklis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would say our last album [<i>34 Oto Sanayi</i>]
because it is our first vinyl, and lyrically and musically it's very different
from our previous albums. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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differently to your music to those abroad?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yes,
they tend to dance more and understand the lyrics easily. But if we are around
the Balkans, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region>,
Mediterranean or <st1:place w:st="on">North Africa</st1:place>, then dancing is
no problem. There are fantastic responses elsewhere too: some Shamanic rituals,
catharsis and ecstasy [occur] with no concept of borders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of your concerts, what they can expect from BaBa ZuLa live? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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strong, deep connection with a specific Oriental culture and geography, that’s
also familiar. Lots of effects to stimulate different senses, and a psychic
experience if our performance is good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">My
father was a well-known graphic designer, so I learnt about the inter-discipline
of contemporary arts from him. I designed our logo and I am the sole art
director for all our album covers. I always consult Levent, but mostly the
concert projections are my ideas too. Sometimes we work with special artists of
course, but conceptually we have to be in control.</span></div>
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its 20<sup>th</sup> year. How have you evolved? What have been your highs and
lows?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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years is too long [to describe]. I think it's getting better and better. We
became a group that can perform and is known around the world, having produced
8 albums. We give about 90 concerts a year and spend around 200 days on the
road. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">[Over
the years] we have more things than we need, and [won] many awards for best
film score or best theatre music band of the year etc. We are very modest, just
wishing to play the music we want, and still we do it: that's the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">high point</st1:place></st1:city> of my career. And
now we can do it around the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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performed at? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We’ve
played <st1:city w:st="on"><i>Roskilde</i></st1:city>
in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region>, <st1:city w:st="on"><i>Memphis</i></st1:city><i> in May</i> in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region>,
and the <i>Spirit of Tengri Festival</i> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Kazakhstan</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
the <i>Cannes Film Festival</i>, the <i>Taormina Film Festival</i> – hundreds of
festivals! I love festivals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In
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we performed a few times at festivals too. The one I can not forget was the <i>Festival of the Dying and the Dead</i> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Now
our country is in a civil war and this makes things worse than before. Many
gigs are cancelled and people are getting killed. Because of our lyrics, we
have been banned from lots of TV and radio channels and today's conditions do
not help, but we won't compromise. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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soundtracks? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yes.
We have done music for many movies, documentaries and theatres since [<i>Tabutta Rövaşata</i>]. We also do live music
for silent movies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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visiting on this tour and is it your biggest-ever world tour?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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I think so. It's the biggest since we were formed back in 1996. We cannot count
countries, but counting the continents, there’s five of them. Speaking of two where
we might not be able to perform [on this tour]: I really hope we can play again
in South America and we have never performed in <st1:place w:st="on">Antarctica</st1:place>
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are planning a compilation album of old and new unreleased stuff, remixes and
collaborations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from the Argentinean <i>Nu Cumbia</i> label
ZZK RECORDS – we love their releases and always dance to them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mostly, and the new wave of African Dub is also very appealing. As always, the
old funk blues and psychedelia of 1960s and 1970s. Turkish records from this
period have been a favourite and it feels so good that the world is finally
catching up with them. Everybody seems to know and dig Selda [Bağcan] for
instance. It's a great feeling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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60s of course. I also love the late 70s period, when punk and reggae come
together. I really wish I could have seen Syd Barrett at the UFO club, and
Hendrix coming to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>
and rising to fame. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">And
the legendary Can performing in </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></div>
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Ellie Goulding (Best Musician Award) and Lara Stone as Model of the Year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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awards ceremony held last Tuesday at Claridges in central <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Last year, the same award was won by actor Benedict Cumberbatch.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
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launching his own label in 2005. In the past decade, he has dressed some of the
most famous ladies on the planet, from film stars such as Keira Knightley, Sarah
Jessica Parker, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Anne Hathaway, and Marion
Cotillard, to fashion icon Alexa Chung and royalty. Kate Middleton, the Duchess
of Cambridge, is among his biggest fans and regularly wears his dresses for her
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">About <span style="background: white;"><a href="http://www.erdem.com/">Erdem Moralıoğlu </a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Erdem is Canadian-born, with a Turkish father and an English
mother. He grew up between <st1:city w:st="on">Montreal</st1:city> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Birmingham</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">He graduated in fashion from <st1:placename w:st="on">Ryerson</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Toronto</st1:place></st1:city>, before working as an intern for
Vivienne Westwood. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In 2000, he moved to <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>
to study fashion at the Royal College of Art and after receiving his master's
degree in 2003, he moved to <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>
where he worked alongside Diane von Furstenberg. Two years later, he relocated
to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and launched his own ready-to-wear label, Erdem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The couture label has become renowned for its elegant designs,
where delicate ideas mix with bold fashion statements that use experimental
textiles and vibrant prints.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A darling of London Fashion Week, Erdem has received numerous
accolades over the years, including: the 2008 British Fashion Council’s Fashion
Forward Award; the 2010 inaugural Vogue / British Fashion Council Designer
Fashion Fund Award, the 2012 British Fashion Council’s New Establishment Award,
the 2013 British Fashion Council’s Red Carpet Award and the 2014 British
Fashion Council’s Womenswear Designer of the Year Award.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Today Erdem is sold in over 170 of the most exclusive retailers
around the world, such as Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman in <st1:state w:st="on">New
York</st1:state>, and Selfridges and Harvey Nichols in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>,
his clothes can be found in <st1:city w:st="on">Ankara</st1:city> and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:place></st1:city> in branches of
Harvey Nichols, Polar Moda and Beymen. Splash in Limassol, south <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region>, is also
an official stockist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Over the summer, Erdem
opened his debut flagship store, located at </span><st1:street style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">70 South Audley Street</st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-28251284094559417252015-11-10T18:11:00.000+00:002015-11-11T00:48:31.002+00:00Atatürk and the re-birth of a nation: talk by Dr Haldun Solmaztürk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal;">The 77<sup>th</sup>
year of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s passing has been commemorated across <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place>
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<em><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal;">Turkey’s founding
father not only presided over vital military victories at Çanakkale and the
Turkish War of Independence, which liberated Turkey from foreign powers, but
also helped usher in a new modern era with a raft of far-reaching reforms.
These included: abolishing the Caliphate and turning Turkey into a secular
state, giving women the vote, translating the Koran into Turkish so it was more
easily understood by the mass of Turks, replacing the Arabic alphabet with
Latin characters, and placing education for the masses at the heart of his
social reforms, to create a new, literate society that could compete with the
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<em><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal;">This Friday, the Çanakkale
Remembrance Platform has organised a special seminar to recognise Atatürk’s important
legacy. Titled </span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Bir
Milletin Yeniden Doğuşu: Rumeli’den Çanakkale’ye, Çanakkale’den Çankaya’ya” </span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal;">(The Rebirth of a Nation: from Rumeli to Çanakkale,
Çanakkale to Çankaya), keynote speaker Dr Haldun Solmaztürk will chart the
Turkish leader’s life and career, and its impact on the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place> and its people.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal;">The event, entirely in
Turkish, will start with refreshments, followed by a minute’s silence in
remembrance of Atatürk, the singing of the Turkish national anthem and an
introductory talk by the Turkish ambassador, Abdurrahman Bilgiç. There will be
a question and answer session following Dr Haldun Solmaztürk's talk, with the event
scheduled to end at 8.15pm.</span></em></div>
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central <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>
is free, but people are required to register in advance to confirm their place.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Dr Haldun Solmaztürk is a political and security analyst,
commentator and academic. He started his professional career in the Turkish
army, rising to the rank of <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">brigadier general</span>. He retired from the army in 2005
after 30 years of service. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">In his civilian life, he has served as a lecturer, writer, director
and advisor for many think tanks and academic institutions including the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the <st1:placename w:st="on">Ahmet</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Yesevi</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Kazakh-Turkish</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">International</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Strategic</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Research</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype>, and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Turkish</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>
for International Relations and Strategic Analysis (TURKSAM). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">His expertise covers defence and security, political
culture/psychology, civil society, democratization, foreign policy, and strategic
policy-making. He has taught political leadership, policy formulation and
resolution of cultural conflicts. He has also extensively researched the impact
of insecurity on young people in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the transformation of
political culture. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Since 2012, he has been an Honorary Research Fellow, at <st1:placename w:st="on">London</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Metropolitan</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>’s Faculty of Social
Sciences and Humanities, and Senior Fellow at the 21<sup>st</sup>. Century
Turkey Institute’s Dpt. of National Security and International Relations in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ankara</st1:place></st1:city>. In 2014, he
joined Chatham House as an Academy Turkey Senior Fellow on International
Security. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Event:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">“Bir Milletin Yeniden Doğuşu: Rumeli’den
Çanakkale’ye, Çanakkale’den Çankaya’ya”</span></em><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Date:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Friday 13 November </span></span><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">2015<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Venue:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></span><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on"><em><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">West
One, 9-10 Portland Place</span></em></st1:street><em><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">, <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">W1B 1PR</st1:postalcode></span></em></st1:address><em><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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– registration required</span></em></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09643469007696653480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268521026844718948.post-22497885248495763842015-11-09T14:23:00.000+00:002015-11-11T00:50:03.444+00:00“Hellim is not just a packet of cheese,” Minister Çolak warns EU Commission<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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that if the issue of <i>hellim</i> cheese is
resolved as a confidence building measure (CMB), with economic benefit to both
sides, it will enhance the negotiation process. Any other strategy could have a
negative impact on the Talks, which are currently progressing positively, she
said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chamber of Industry (CTCI), Minister Çolak reminded the audience that a quarter
of the TRNC’s export trade depends on <i>hellim</i>,
which provides jobs for 17% of the population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had a big cultural significance for Turkish Cypriots, and as a globally known and
sold product, had a large role in the quest for peace in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had applied to the European Union for a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) for
<i>hellim</i>: <i>"They requested that the monitoring of hellim take place in 'areas
under the effective control of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Republic</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:placename></st1:place>.' We said it
was not possible for the monitoring in the North to be conducted by the Greek
Cypriot Ministry. Our position was deemed valid, and alternatives were sought.
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document treating hellim as an 'exceptional situation' was produced after the
meeting on 16 July 2015 between the two leaders and the President of the EU
Commission, Claude Juncker. It accepted that an independent institution would
be assigned by the EU to monitor hellim production in the TRNC. The Commission
also prepared a draft amendment to the Green Line trade Regulation to take
effect with the PDO." <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hellim - a vital part of the TRNC economy. Photo: Akgol</span></i></td></tr>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">"The Greek
Cypriot administration then demanded various changes. We were quite happy with
what we saw as a progressive agreement," </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">said Çolak, adding:<i> "After reaching it, we were
disappointed by the amendments requested by the Greek Cypriots, who said it was
a threat to their sovereignty. The Commission listened to their objections, and
prepared another document. It then transferred the issue to the EU Council so
that it could not be disputed any further, and a conclusion be reached. " <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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of mutual benefit between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot sides on the issue of hellim
is an important aspect of economic growth. But we are not just talking about a
packet of cheese. Any negative decision taken at this stage by the Commission
over the demands of the Greek Cypriots pertaining to the hellim PDO could harm
the Talks. Since the Greek Cypriot side is not attempting to cooperate with us
over the monitoring of hellim, the EU Commission should consider the Green Line
Regulation implementations throughout this process." <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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approach would be to establish a control mechanism which will include the
relevant Chambers in <st1:place w:st="on">Northern Cyprus</st1:place>, our
Ministry of Agriculture, and the EU. We expect the EU Commission to adopt an
approach which recognises the equal rights of the Turkish Cypriots and the
Greek Cypriots, and allows all relevant parties in <st1:place w:st="on">Northern
Cyprus</st1:place> with valid objections to be heard." <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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in good faith”</span></span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Mr Fahri Zihni, chair of Embargoed!, the
London-based organisation which campaigns to remove trade and other embargoes imposed
by the UN and the EU upon the TRNC, said this week: <i>"We have lobbied EU Commissioners and discussed hellim issues with
the TRNC's Chamber of Commerce, and we have hosted the Chamber of Industry's
President Cirali at a recent hellim round table discussion. It is very
encouraging to see that Foreign Minister Çolak has picked up, developed and
reinforced industry concerns in a clear attempt to make the PDO work for the
benefit of both sides." <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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the way that the Greek Cypriots have speedily rejected both the letter and the
spirit of this specially- negotiated hellim PDO that they are not negotiating
in good faith. If they can renege on the Hellim agreement between themselves,
the EU and Turkish Cypriots, what guarantee is there that they will not renege
on an agreed constitution for the future of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region>?"<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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Saturday night after securing 56% of the vote. He beat former Finance Minister Ersin
Tatar in the second-round of the Ulusal Birlik Partisi (National Unity Party) leadership
contest, after five of the seven candidates were eliminated in the first round
of voting held the previous week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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candidates in 1<sup>st</sup> round of leadership contest</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the required 51% to win outright in the first round. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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government ministers stand for the party’s top job: Ünal Üstel, Ersan Saner, Nazım
Çavuşoğlu, and Zorlu Töre. Oğuz Ceyda, a former President of the Turkish
Cypriot Farmers Union, also threw his hat into the ring. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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top two took over two thirds of the vote between them: Özgürgün came first with
44.3%, with Tatar on 23.4%. The next nearest candidate had been Üstel on 11.5%,
followed by: Saner (8.1%), Çavuşoğlu (6.2%),Töre (5.2%), and Ceyda (0.6%).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A slightly higher number turned out for the second.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from the UBP leadership runoff</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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elections that took place at UBP’s 20<sup>th</sup> AGM on Saturday 7 November are
as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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6,316<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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3,540<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and togetherness'</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The leadership contest should help the party
reconcile after months of bickering and petty political point-scoring among the
rival candidates and their supporters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cameras following the announcement of the results. The UBP leader then invited
the other leadership candidates, fellow UBP MPs and local council leaders to
join them on the stage to demonstrate the party’s “unity and togetherness”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for democracy”,</i> referring to the party’s new internal voting system and
regulations. The 50-year-old politician pledged to do his best for this party
and country, and thanked the National Executive and party members who worked during
the two AGMs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Denktaş and known for its patriotic views, is the junior partner in a coalition
government with the centre-left Republican Turkish Party (CTP).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Huseyin Özgürgün<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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and a keen sportsman, Özgürgün started his political life in the centre-right Democrat
Party, first entering Parliament in 1998. He then switched to their arch rivals
UBP, going on to become party leader in 2006. He stepped down after 10 months. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of UBP MPs in Parliament in 2013 after party leader and former Prime Minister İrsen
Küçük failed to get re-elected in the General Elections held that year. Soon
after, Özgürgün</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">, an MP for Lefkoşa, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;">was re-elected as party leader.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lancashire Fusiliers 42 Division Waiting to Disembark at Gallipoli, 1915. Photo: NMRN, Gallipoli: Myth & Memory</span></i></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">On this Remembrance Sunday, when the United Kingdom (UK) honours
the heroic efforts, achievements and sacrifices of those who fought in past
wars, spare a thought for a battle that is usually overlooked: the campaign at
Gallipoli, or Çanakkale, fought against the Ottomans one hundred years ago,
which ended in defeat for Britain and its allies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Part of World War I, this bloody campaign began with a naval
assault by the Allies in March 1915. Their aim was to capture the <st1:place w:st="on">Dardanelles</st1:place> – a key sea route. The following month, the
Allies, whose troops came from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Great Britain</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">New
Zealand</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>,
landed 500,000 soldiers on the <st1:placename w:st="on">Gallipoli</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Peninsula</st1:placetype>, intending to march on to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Istanbul</st1:place></st1:city>. But their plans
were thwarted by the Ottomans, who won a famous victory in January 1916,
although it exacted a heavy toll on both sides with some half-a-million
casualties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">Listen to A World in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> radio show on 'Gallipoli
100’</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Earlier this year, former <i>Konsey</i>
head Ahmet Baştürk was a guest on ‘<i>Heritage
at A World in London - Gallipoli 100’</i>, a special radio programme hosted by
DJ Ritu to discuss the legacy of the Gallipoli campaign. Joining him was Dianna
Djokey and Fiona Smythe from the <st1:placename w:st="on">National</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype> of the Royal Navy in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portsmouth</st1:city></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The hour-long programme contained heaps of historical facts from
the 100-year old battle, intertwined with wonderful music, with the studio
guests providing different perspectives, both British and Turkish, about the
conflict. The show formed part of A World in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> series to highlight the role of
migrants in British history and heritage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Listen to the show <b><a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/culturalco_operation/30th-june-2015-heritage-at-a-world-in-london-gallipoli-100/">here</a></b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial";">Gallipoli: Myth
and Memory, </span></i></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Royal
Navy Museum</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">One of the aspects the radio show covered was a special
exhibition </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;">about Gallipoli </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">at the </span><st1:placename style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">National</st1:placename><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:placetype style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> of the Royal Navy (NMRN) in </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portsmouth</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> during its centenary
year commemorations. Called </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Gallipoli:
Myth and Memory</i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, it contains never-before-seen exhibits, witness accounts, and
displays re-telling the story of Gallipoli distorted by national myth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The exhibition explores every element, from British troop
deployment to their evacuation nearly a year later. It demonstrates how the
Royal Navy was at the heart of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region>’s
military operation in Gallipoli, including its immaculate evacuation of troops,
seemingly overnight, from the <st1:place w:st="on">Peninsula</st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Some of the myths that have since circulated about this epic
battle include that the Ottomans were ‘weak and could be easily defeated’, that
being in the Mediterranean, the Allies’ biggest threat would be ‘the heat’
(many troops actually froze to death), and that had the Turks lost Gallipoli, the
First World War would have been over more quickly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Among the exhibition’s highlights are: a 3 metre long model of HMS
Swiftsure; Admiral Carden’s (who was in charge when the Allied fleet advanced
up the Dardanelles Straits) archive, including his plans and correspondence
with Winston Churchill; and naval officer Rowland Langmaid’s journal, which
contains a diary complete with sketches and descriptions of what he observes
while serving on a battleship in Gallipoli.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">Other significant Portsmouth
military sites for British Turks</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">The exhibition runs until the end of January 2016. While you are
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portsmouth</st1:city></st1:place>,
it’s worth visiting a few other important sites that hold significance for
British Turks: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.nmrn.org.uk/exhibitions-projects/monitor-hms-m33">See HMS M.33</a></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, the sole surviving British warship from Gallipoli. It’s sited within the
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, 130 metres away from the NMRN.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.royalarmouries.org/visit-us/fort-nelson">The Royal Armouries at Fort Nelson</a></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, overlooking <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portsmouth</st1:place></st1:city>,
where the <b>Dardanelles Gun </b>is housed.
Modelled on the guns used by the Ottomans during the victorious Siege of
Constantinople in 1453, it was cast in bronze in 1464 by Munir Ali. At 5m long
gun and weighing nearly 17 tonnes, it remained a core part of the Ottomans’
artillery for 340 years, helping to keep an array of forces at bay, including
the British during their 1807 Dardanelles Campaign. In 1866, Sultan Abdülâziz gifted
the Dardanelles Gun to Queen <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Victoria</st1:place></st1:state>.<br />
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Admission to the fortress and its modern museum is free. Open daily from
10.30am to 4pm, last admission is 3pm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: start; text-indent: -24px;">The </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: start; text-indent: -24px;">Dardanelles Gun, made of bronze </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: start; text-indent: -24px;">by the Ottomans </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: start; text-indent: -24px;">in 1464, now on display at Fort Nelson in Hampshire</span></i></td></tr>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Turkish
sailors laid to rest at the Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">. Between
1859 and 1860, two Turkish ships were anchored off Hardway, <st1:place w:st="on">Gosport</st1:place>.
Some Turkish sailors were admitted to hospital suffering from cholera or
injured during from training accidents. 26 died and were buried in the local
town, which was dubbed ‘<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Turk</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Town</st1:placetype></st1:place>’. Their remains were
moved to their current burial site in 1900. Each year, the Turkish ambassador,
and representatives of the Turkish armed forces and community come to pay their
respects.<br />
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The cemetery is open daily and access is unlimited. It is located in <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Clayhall Road</st1:address></st1:street>,
Gosport, Hampshire, on the opposite side to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Portsmouth</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Harbour</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
a 27-minute drive via the M27 from Portsmouth Historical Dockyard.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Turkish Naval Cemetery, at the Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery. Photo: <span lang="EN-GB">Abdullah
Gül during 2011 state visit to UK</span></span></i></td></tr>
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Myth and Memory</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.1pt;"> and </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.1pt;">HMS M.33,<b> </b>c</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.1pt;">heck the NMRN website before travelling for ticket availability: it can
get very busy during weekends and school holidays, with the number of visitors
to certain exhibitions and tours limited.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Exhibition:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Gallipoli:
Myth and Memory<em><span style="font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Runs until:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 31st January 2016<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Venue:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <st1:placename w:st="on">National</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype> of the Royal Navy, </span></span><em><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (entry
via Victory Gate at the corner of <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Queen
Street</st1:address></st1:street> and the Hard), <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Portsmouth</st1:city>, <st1:postalcode w:st="on">PO1 3LA</st1:postalcode></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Winter (November to March) opening hours:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">10am - 4.15pm daily. Open every day except
Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Tickets for NMRN & harbour tour</span></b><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">: £8 (children), £13 (adults), or £33.40 (family
ticket: two adults, three children)<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">How to get there: <a href="http://www.nmrn.org.uk/our-museums/nmrn-portsmouth">our-museums/nmrn-portsmouth</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">More info: <a href="http://www.nmrn.org.uk/">www.nmrn.org.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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