Monthly Archives: July 2012
Amsterdam: more than hookers and hash
Before I visited the city, people told me to go to the Red Light District and try hash brownies. I'm not interested in either. (Although I did pass the Red Light District on a boat - I felt sick in my stomach when I saw all the leering, drunken tourists and young girls in windows. Not my idea of a vacay.)
TURKISCH OLIMPIC TEAM OF LONDON 2012
Turkisch olimpic team of london 2012
sezen aksu-ah istanbul
Nez - Depresif Kukla [YENI KLIP 2011] H.Q.
Back in Istanbul
We arrived back in Istanbul yesterday afternoon – said goodbye to our driver and guide. It was like saying goodbye to friends. We hope to stay in touch with our guide in particular – it was a bit harder to get to know our driver as he didn’t speak much English but our guide did.
After resting and refreshing in our motel we ventured out to find dinner.
istanbul
Bana Bir Saz Verin (Can Bonomo)
Painting on Water – A mesmerising art of Ebru!
As colours create magic on paper, so can they on water! It’s true that painting on water creates wonders. An art form that is so appealing and yet unknown to many. I was amazed to see how it is done and I am pretty sure that you too will get shocked. Here, I am talking about a Turkish art of painting known as Ebru.
Painting on Water – A mesmerising art of Ebru!
As colours create magic on paper, so can they on water! It’s true that painting on water creates wonders. An art form that is so appealing and yet unknown to many. I was amazed to see how it is done and I am pretty sure that you too will get shocked. Here, I am talking about a Turkish art of painting known as Ebru.
Noaptea institutelor culturale: Centrul Cultural Turc Yunus Emre
Merhaba! De câteva zile încoace tot ascult muzică orientală (în special turcească) tradiţională şi lenevesc peste perne mari şi moi. Căldura este şi ea din belşug vara asta. Doar ceaiul negru ce îmi mai lipseşte ca să mă simt ca în Turcia. Şi chemarea la rugăciune, de care era să uit. Dar atmosfera aceasta orientală a prins o nouă formă vineri, la Noaptea institutelor culturale, când am vizitat Centrul Cultural Turc Yunus Emre din Bucureşti.
Ebru Art @ American Islamic College
kutsi ebru gundes
kutsi ebru gundes
NEW RELEASE: J.Lo Unleashes First Greatest Hits Album!
Fans of Jennifer Lopez rejoye! The pop superstar has compiled her first greatest hits collection, "Dance Again... The Hits." The compilation was released this week and contains some of Lopez's most iconic songs including, "Love Don't Cost a Thing," "Waiting for Tonight," and "Jenny From The Block." The set also features two new songs, "Dance Again," an infectious tune of pure dance-pop bliss, and "Goin' In," a track featured in the new installment of the "Step Up" film series.
Jennifer Lopez - Lets Get Loud
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Turn the music up, let's do it
C'mon people let's get loud
Let's get loud
Turn the music up to hear that sound
Let's get loud, let's get loud
Ain't nobody gotta tell ya
What you gotta do
If you want to live your life
Live it all the way and don't waste it…
Jennifer Lopez - Papi & On The Floor - American Music Awards
Lycian Tombs...
Some things just get better with age.
The ancient city of Ephesus
Throughout the history of ancient Ephesus, one of the world's most important centers of civilization, science, culture and art always played an important role. East and West (Europe and Asia), an important port city of Ephesus, which was the main gate. This location is the most important political and commercial center of Ephesus as the development of age and has made the state capital of Asia in…
Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction
Elif Shafak builds on the simple idea that listening to stories will not only widen our imaginations, but also help us overcome identity politics.
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Honour
I absolutely loved this book. I loved everything about it. The characters are all completely believable, the story is one which will you will not want to see the end of while dying to know what actually happened, the writing is wonderful to read and the humanity of the story is so real as to feel --- well, real.
I was absorbed for the four evenings I read this book until too late in bed.
Ottoman turks force Obama to expel Israel
The U.S. blocked Israel's participation in the Global Counterterrorism Forum's (GCTF) first meeting in Istanbul on Friday.
This blockade took place even though Israel has extensive experience in counterterrorism.
A source in Washington said Israel was excluded from the meeting because of fierce objections by Turkish President Erdogan. Israel tried hard to obtain an invitation to the meeting, and its exclusion has greatly disappointed officials in Jerusalem.
Top 10 places to visit in Turkey
I got an email recently asking me for travel tips in Turkey. I decided to answer the email publicly here on my blog so that others can also read about interesting things to see in Turkey (besides Istanbul of course). I have not visited all these places myself, but most of them are places I am planning to visit in the future.
Day 9 Turkey, Ankara
It's getting so hard to make posts as I come close to the end of the trip. Turkey is such a beautiful country, has beautiful people, great food, not to mention it is great land with many layers of civilization, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Islam, and the Central Asian nomadic heritage.
After the vitit to the Ataturk Mausoleum, we headed over to the Anatolian Civilization Museum.
Destination: Ankara, Turkey
Plan 2 goes further.
Stuart and I are off to Turkey in a weeks time. We believe that it will be the perfect place to relax whilst feeling a bit of culture, as we have both travelled a fair bit in Europe, however didn't have the proper amount of time or budget to go further afield (Tran-Siberian was the original plan).
So we're off to Turkey and this is our plan.
Ephesus and Kusadasi, Turkey
May 21st
We started off the day at a leather shop. All their coats are made with .....sheep skin leather! I never heard of it, it was cool. They started with a fashion show featuring yours truly... (jk)
Sadly, all the leather coats were like 4-500 euros! Sad face. Now to Ephesus! On the bus ride over, our tour guide gave us more interesting marriage facts.
Kusadasi Turkey 2012: Photo Diary
We've recently returned from a holiday in the resort of Kusadasi in Turkey. Staying in the Richmond Ephesus Hotel just on the outskirts of the resort, this holiday was purely for relaxation and of course, a bit of exploration!
The hotel was fantastic, the weather was scorching and the location was beautiful!
In total we took around 500 photos but we won't bore you with those!
kusadasi
A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ORHAN PAMUK,THE TURKISH NOVELIST AND NOBEL LAUREATE!
A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO 'ORHAN PAMUK' ,THE TURKISH NOVELIST AND 2006-LITERATURE NOBEL !
PAMUK TURNS 60 TODAY!
Basking in the glory n fame of being a Nobel-Laureate, Orhan Pamuk has an uncanny skill to draw characters and places!
A avid supporter of free speech and pluralism,PAMUK had been through various oppositions inside his native land of Turkey including a trial that occurred after Pamuk's comments regarding Armenian Genocide n Kurdish Problems got international attention post Nobel-Prize!
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A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ORHAN PAMUK,THE TURKISH NOVELIST AND NOBEL LAUREATE!
A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO 'ORHAN PAMUK' ,THE TURKISH NOVELIST AND 2006-LITERATURE NOBEL !
PAMUK TURNS 60 TODAY!
Basking in the glory n fame of being a Nobel-Laureate, Orhan Pamuk has an uncanny skill to draw characters and places!
A avid supporter of free speech and pluralism,PAMUK had been through various oppositions inside his native land of Turkey including a trial that occurred after Pamuk's comments regarding Armenian Genocide n Kurdish Problems got international attention post Nobel-Prize!
Review: Istanbul's Museum of Innocence
Yazeed Kamaldien
Nobel prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk has established arguably the first museum in the world replicating the chapters of a novel.
Pamuk’s ode to literature is hidden away – but not far away – from the tourist noise of terrifically busy Istanbul. It is found in a residential area adjacent to the popular Istiklal shopping street where thousands of the city’s estimated 13 million inhabitants traverse daily.
14 Great Authors and Poets
Hello my friends,
There are 14 authors and poets whose brilliant works I enjoy immensely. Their works have become a vessel that carries inside it a dream world I have always wished to keep forever, alive and ready.
More often than not, their strings of words have emerged to become a loyal companion that helps me to momentarily forget the tedious world I long to escape and enter the world of fantasy and daydreams.
Judul: My Name is Red – Namaku Merah Kirmizi
Judul: My Name is Red – Namaku Merah Kirmizi
Penulis: Orhan Pamuk
ISBN : 9791112401
Terbit : 2006
Halaman : 726
Penerbit : Serambi
Bahasa : Indonesia
Sinopsis Buku:
Sebuah misteri pembunuhan yang menegangkan … sebuah perenungan mendalam tentang cinta dan kegigihan artistik …
Namaku Merah Kirmizi bermula di Istanbul simbol tonggak kejayaan-Islam yang terakhir di ujung abad keenam belas, saat Sultan secara diam-diam menugaskan pembuatan sebuah buku tak biasa untuk merayakan kejayaannya, yang dihiasi ilustrasi para seniman terkemuka saat itu.
turkisch literature
New Horizons (Yeni Ufuklar) - mosaic artwork
Glass and stained glass mosaic with glass sticks
50 x 70 cm
Finished in 2012 / P-art Mozika
TURKISCH MOZAIKS
SEVGİ DOLU HATIRALARINIZIN HALICISI
Gazeteci olarak her gün yeni bir şeye şahit oluyoruz. Resimler vardır ya hani hatıra olarak senelerce sakladığımız eşimiz dostumuz geldiğinde ilk onları açtığımız uzun uzun baktığımızda çoğu zaman duygulandığımız resimler. Resimlerin bardağa, tabelaya, tişörte, anahtarlığa,yastığa basıldığını görmüştük ;ama geçenlerde esnafı dolaşırken hali ilginç bir çalışma gördük GAZİANTEP'TEN gelen bir esnaf o hatıra dolu resimlerinizi HALI'ya işliyorlar ve sonucunda da harika bir görüntü ortaya çıkıyor.
THE TURKISCH CARPET ART
Kum Sanatı
İsrailli kum animasyon sanatçısı Ilana Yahav, cam zemin üzerine serptiği kum taneleri ile bir birinden güzel kompozisyonlar oluşturuyor.
Okyanus
http://sandfantasy.com/
the friendschip ISRAEL AND TURKEY
Tarkan - Ay. Subtitulada al español
Tarkan - Aşk. Subtitulada al español
PERJALANAN INI #50
TARKAN OH TARKAN
Fanta festivali
Festifal Fanta tahun ini menghadirkan artis yang bernama Tarkan. Anak-anak Trabzon jauh-jauh hari sudah ramai sekali bicara Tarkan.
Sekitar dua bulan yang lalu, anak-anak Lise, setara SMA sudah rebut bicara Tarkan. Kelas Kursus kami pun ribut juga soal Tarkan. Waktu saya mengikuti arak-arakan festival teater lima Negara itu, seorang Turki bertanya pada saya; apakah kamu tahu Tarkan?
tarkan
Turkish Bath
Standing along Bishopsgate Churchyard among towering modern office buildings, this unusual and decorative building was once a Turkish Bath built in 1895 by Nevill's Turkish Baths Limited. The ornate building served as the entrance to the actual baths that were located underground. The bather (gentlemen only) would enter and continue down a winding staircase where he would buy his ticket and enter the cooling-room which was decorated in the style of the Alhambra in Spain.
turkisch bath in spain el hamra
KARANLIK STREET-01 PANORAMA
Kaleiçi is the historic city center of Antalya, Turkey. Until modern times, almost the entire city was confined within its walls. It has structures dating from the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman and modern Turkish republican eras. The Kaleiçi area is located in the centre-eastern portion of the city along the mediterranean coast fronted by the yacht harbour that dates to the Roman era.
Off to see the world (there's such a lot of world to see)
Stopover at Kusadasi, Turkey.
On the way to Ephesus.
Ephesus, Kusadasi.
I assumed there would be a dresscode, it being Turkey and all. I was overdressed.
There's something about cats.
If all libraries looked like this.
Ancient symbols.
I don't know much about architecture, but this must classify as magnificent design.
Back to the port.
Land of carpets, Turkey.
They make convincing salespeople.
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A Birthday I'll Never Forget -- Part 1, Birthday Balloons
Cappadocia, July 17
Today's my birthday. We've got a big day planned. It's always nice to have balloons on your birthday, so that's how we start the day.
The first of three alarms goes off in short succession starting at 4:00 a.m. To avoid any risk of sleeping in, we set two alarms and the hotel called us as well. As promised, the shuttle van arrives outside our hotel to pick us up at 4:15.
cappadokia
#15 Göreme, Cappadocia
We spent 3 or 4 nights in Göreme, a small town right in the centre of the Cappadocia area (though if you plan on visiting it is not essential that you stay in Göreme, as all the towns in the area are well connected by dolmus. Fortunately, we were here with two of the people from our cruise and they had a pretty good idea of the things they wanted to do.
Kabus - Çabuk Ol (Ağrı'lı metal grubu) From Turkey
turkisch rock music
#16 Pamukkale and the rest
Pamukkale, home to hot springs and the travertines (terraces of carbonate minerals which are left by the flowing water), was fascinating.
We arrived at 5am, ditched our bags and had breakfast. At 8am (or whenever it opens) we headed for the hillside a little sceptical, many people had mentioned that this attraction was past it's time and no longer as interesting as it once was.
Istanbul on foot
I came to Istanbul with no idea what I would find, but if I was worried about culture shock, that fear was quickly dispelled as soon as I dropped off my bags and headed out for dinner in Sultanahmet (the Old City) with a some new friends: halfway through our first beer, the bar across the road (Cheers) started pumping out The Nosebleed Section by The Hilltop Hoods.
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Soak in the history of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar - Istanbul Photography (Istanbul Photos)
Istanbul's Grand Bazaar is a must see for all travelers to this incredible city. Though there are parts that look like any mall in any nation on Earth, there are districts of the Bazaar which date back to the 16th century. Amazing! Enjoy Grand Bazaar Turkey travel photography (travel photos) with me as your travel guide.
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