Ataturk‚ a Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish army officer in the Ottoman military‚ revolutionary statesman and the first president of Turkey who was born in 1881. First he was enrolled in a traditional religious school‚ in‚1893.Then he entered a military high school where his mathematics teacher gave him the second name Kemal (meaning ‘’perfection’’).Because he excelled in academics. His original name is Mustafa Kemal‚ but in 1934 his constituents gave him the name Ataturk
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01.07 Collapse of an Empire: Assessment I see a heavily fortified city. Surrounding the city are tens of thousands of Turkish soldiers that I belong to. We are armed with crossbows‚ shields‚ and swords. Some of us are using multiple ladders to scale the walls of Constantinople. Additional soldiers remain on boats to support us performing the attack. There are 9 things that I am going to describe first hand account during our attack on Constantinople. 1. I am the soldier on the second
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Egypt and Turkey Both Egypt and Turkey are known as having a long history with ancient cultural practise and architectural achievements such as pyramid which works of ancient Egyptian. However‚ there are similarities and differences in many sites such as climate‚ geographical and food. First of all‚ both Egypt and Turkey have a hot temperate and dry summer. While Egypt has moderate winters‚ Turkey has wet winters and the harsher in interior. For example‚ Ankara‚ which is capital of Turkey‚ has
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IMPROVEMENT OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS First of all‚ humans always need tı communicate with each other. Hundres years ago‚ we had just a few communication systems like raven‚ mail‚ smoke etc. These systems were too slow. Important news were reaching to people too late. With the invention of telgraph‚ transportation times became shorter. This was the first step of modern communication. Second half of 20th century with the improvement of tecnology‚ we invented new communication systems like cell
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The Allied powers were to a great extent responsible for the Ottoman Empire becoming the Turkish state in 1923 by sparking the conflict in Turkey. This is seen through the wartime agreements of the allies and their involvement in the War of Independence in Turkey. However‚ the nationalists within Turkey who were led by Mustafa Kemal and the involvement of Greek forces played a much greater role in the ongoing struggle to abolish the Ottoman Empire during the War of Independence. The ruler of the
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The Ottoman Empire is the Turkish and Islamic state that ruled from 1299-1922. It is one of the most important and powerful Muslim Empires. The founder of the Ottoman Empire is Osman I. At first it was only a tribe and consisted of little followers but in a very short time it grew into being an Empire. Great architectural‚ military‚ and administrative accomplishments have taken place in the Ottoman Empire. The reason that this was such an powerful and long lasting Empire was because of the Sultan
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From 1520 to 1566 in eastern Anatolia when he died Suleiman I the Magnificent had changed the Empire immensely. The sons of Suleiman‚ who ruled the Ottoman Empire who once were able to call each other brothers‚ now call each other traitors because each son was consumed by greed and an obsession for power now that their father is out of throne and only one may rise up to the hierarchy. They each had plans to skyrocket the empire in their own very different ways. And so no matter who became the next
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In the late Islamic period (16th -18th)‚ perhaps even more so than in preceding periods‚ art was an instrument of dynastic expression in this great age of empires. Spurred by royal patronage‚ the arts flourished under the Ottomans and Safavids. Ottoman art was a vibrant synthesis of Turkish and Persian-Islamic‚ Byzantine‚ and Mediterranean culture and styles through conquest‚ through direct invitation of artisans‚ or through the migration of peoples. The Ottoman Turks were renowned for their
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Suleiman the magnificent was born in the year 1494‚ in Trabzon. At the age of seven he went off to gain intellectual knowledge in the field of Military Tactics‚ history‚ theology‚ science and literature. At the age of seventeen he became the appointed governor over Kaffa‚ Sarukhan‚ and Adrianople. After the death of his father he wanted to become the successor of the throne. When he became 26 years of age he became the 10th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1520 and also be called the “kanuni.” He
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Introduction Ciragan Palace is an Ottoman palace‚ built by Sultan Abdul Aziz in 1863. In 1989 it has been renovated by a Japanese corporate and became a five-star hotel of Kempinski Hotels chain. It is located between Besiktas and Ortakoy on the shore of Bosphorus with 284 rooms and 20 suites in hotel section and 11 VIP suites in the palace section. The greatest suite in the palace section is Sultan’s Suite (458 sq.m)‚ billed at 30‚000 euro per night and listed as 14th on World’s 15 most expensive
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