When greeting friends or strangers‚ one shakes hands and says Nasılsınız? (How are you?) or Merhaba (Hello). A typical response to Nasılsınız is İyiyim‚ teşekkür ederim (Fine‚ thank you). Greetings among friends are followed by polite inquiries about one’s health‚ family‚ and work. Unless they are conservative Muslims‚ close friends of the same (and sometimes the opposite) gender clasp hands and kiss on both cheeks when greeting. The hands of an older person may be kissed and touched to the greeter’s
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Post World War I Turkish Reforms Mustafa Kemal served as founder and president of the new Republic of Turkey for 15 years‚ from 1923 to his death in 1938. He introduced numerous sweeping reforms that altered the political‚ social‚ legal‚ economic‚ and cultural spheres of the new republic. His goal: to raise Turkey to the level of modern civilization. 6 groups of major reforms: 1. political reforms November 1922‚ abolishment of sultanate October 1923‚ proclamation of republic March 3
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dicle kogacioglu The Tradition Effect: Framing Honor Crimes in Turkey n honor crime is commonly defi ned as the murder of a woman by members of her family who do not approve of her sexual behavior.1 While there are no official statistics on the crime in Turkey‚ an incomplete collection of the cases that received coverage in the national media shows that in the three-year period between 1994 and 1996 a total of fi fty-three women fell victim to honor killings (see Yirmibesoglu). Recently two events
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Cage‚ one of the most revered composers of the 20th century‚ changed how people understood the meaning of music. His experimental‚ controversial musical philosophies exposed the contradictions between the definition of sound and the definition of music. Although it is challenging to explain the broad concepts of sound and music‚ Cage asserts that both music and sound do not require meaning to be memorable and bring pleasure. Although I personally disagree with this philosophy‚ I believe his unorthodox
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One of Goodell’s major motivations during his work as a missionary in the Turkish empire were his endeavours in translating the Bible into Armeno-Turkish. The Bible had already been translated into Turkish previously. A Turkish translation existed by 1657‚ however‚ it was incomplete. A more complete translation was made in 1665 by Wojciech Bobowski. Moreover‚ a Turkish Bible was printed for the first time in Paris in 1827‚ and this was the basis for further translation of the Bible by minority groups
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Başak Erel 108611006 Berke Baş Multiply-city; Representations of Urban Experience Slums During the Urbanization Process of Turkey The word ‘slum’ was firstly mentioned by a writer called James Hardy Vaux‚ in his book ‘Vocabulary of the Flash Language’ which was published in 1812[1]. At those times ‘slum’ was also a synonym of illegal commerce. Today‚ ‘slum’ is used to describe the residential areas of a huge amount of people of the world. According to the UN-Habitat report released in October
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If we were to evaluate life as a science experiment‚ time would always remain an independent variable. No matter how breath-taking or devastating a life event is‚ time will continue to move forward. In the song “Telescope” by Cage the Elephant‚ the speaker tells the story of a man from another world that he or she sees through their telescope. This man remains in his home because he does not want to waste time with the unknowns of the world. The speaker uses this story to convey how attempting to
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Irony in Connell’s Short Story “The Cage Man” Irony can be defined as a double significance which arises from the contrast in values associated with two different point of view (Leech and Short‚ Style in fiction; 223). The most usual kind is that which involves a contrast between a point of view stated or implied in some part of the fiction‚ and the assumed point of view of the author‚ and hence of the reader. In the Richard Connell’s short story entitled “The Cage Man” it is Horace Nimms‚ the main
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ze political factors to finding opportunities and challenges in Turkey. 2.1.1 Change of Government The change of government political environment in Turkey affects the business environment through the legislation and different regulations. Turkey has successfully carried out the structural reforms after the severe economic recession in 1999 – 2001. The reforms include market liberalization to promote foreign investment‚ privatization‚ agricultural reform‚ strengthen the banking system and fiscal
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recently defeated in World War I. Greek borders fell in 1922‚ giving Turkey the advantage. The two countries negotiated the terms of surrender‚ and decided the leave the border the same as before the war with the Treaty of Sevres. Turkey did not follow the treaty‚ and the Treaty of Sevres was abandoned for the Treaty of Lausanne‚ which was imposed by the Ottoman Empire and instituted the formal loss of Cyprus and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Turkey continues to invade Cyprus‚ claiming it as the Turkish Republic
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