Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (March 12‚ 1881 - November 10‚ 1938)‚ Turkish soldier and statesman‚ was the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. He was born in the Ottoman city of Selânik (now Thessaloniki in Greece)‚ where his birthplace is the Turkish Consulate and is also preserved as a museum. In accordance with the then prevalent Turkish custom‚ he was given the single name Mustafa. His father‚ Ali Riza (Efendi) was a customs officer who died when Mustafa was a child‚ his mother was
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Western (North America‚ Western Europe)‚ Confucian (China)‚ Japanese‚ Islamic (North Africa‚ middle east)‚ Hindu (India)‚ Slavic Orthodox (Russia‚ Eastern Europe)‚ Latin American‚ African (sub-Sahara)‚ Buddhist (Central Asia‚ Mongolia‚ SE Asia) –-Turkey‚ Western European or Middle East? III. Conflict Becomes Civilizational * Predicts huge ideological wars * “From Princes‚ to Peoples‚ to Ideologies‚ to Civilizations” * Evolution of conflict: wars shift from being fought over
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Home About Bangladesh Investment and Trade FDI in Bangladesh Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh | | | | Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has played a key role in the modernization of the Bangladesh economy for the last 15 years. | Inflows of Foreign Direct InvestmentThere was an inflows of $666m foreign direct investment in 2007 which raised significantly in 2008 to $1086m. As of 2011‚ inflows of foreign direct investment recorded to $1136.38m.Inflows of foreign direct investment
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are the Armenians and why were they persecuted so terribly? Well‚ the Armenians are a vibrant ethnic group from the Northern Middle East best known for their Christian background. For four thousand years‚ Armenians have lived in present day Eastern Turkey and Armenia. During the Fourth Century
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CONGRESSIONAL BACKGROUND PAPER --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECJ5 APPROVED BY: ____________ MAJ Andrecht‚ Jay - 2015/03/09 STRATEGIC ESTIMATE OF THE CAUCASUS REGION • US Domestic Considerations are the oil pipeline through the Southern Caucasus Region and the Black Sea for trade access. • Non-US/Multinational Policy Goals‚ include NATO expansion in size and influence. Relations with Russia. Creation of an
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like RAI UNO from Italy‚ TVE Internacional from Spain and ERT from Greece)‚ TRT INT goes a step further. This station not only wants to present the Turkish viewers abroad with a Turkey of an immaculate prehistory‚ including racially pure norms and values which are presently no longer existing in (larger parts of) Turkey. The station also creates a matriarchy in which it exercises a subtle form of social control over the Turkish viewers abroad‚ who have supposedly fallen into an identity crisis. TRT
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CA BRIAN SILVERSTEIN University of Arizona DISCIPLINES OF PRESENCE IN MODERN TURKEY: Discourse‚ Companionship‚ and the Mass Mediation of Islamic Practice O ye who believe! Fear Allah and be with those who are true in word and deed. —Quran IX.119 Whoever makes himself like unto a people is one of them. —Hadith Discourse involved in practice is not the same as that involved in speaking about practice. It is a modern idea that a practitioner cannot know how to live religiously without being
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suffered invasion‚ four years of cruel enemy occupation‚ and bitter internal strife. Read paragraphs 10-16. 2. What type of revolutionary group was leading the challenge to democracy in Greece? Without help‚ Greece would fall to Communism. Nearby Turkey‚ he added‚ was in a similar situation. The Greek Government has been operating in an atmosphere of chaos and extremism. It has made mistakes. The extension of aid by this country does not mean that the United States condones everything that the Greek
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religion/non-religion. However‚ unlike America‚ Islam does not separate religion from the state. Secularism in Turkey came after the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. With the country getting down Mustafa Kemal Atatürk led a political and cultural revolution. Turkish modernism went through a reversal of the Islamic Ottoman system and the adoption of a west-oriented mode of modernization. This resulted in the abolition of the Caliphate. Also‚ a secular civil code was adopted to replace the previous
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and natural gas‚ produced since the 1950s (World Desk Reference). These are also the country’s major exports‚ totaling $57.19 billion USD in 2010. Algeria’s top export partners are the United States‚ Italy‚ Spain‚ France‚ Netherlands‚ Canada‚ and Turkey. Algeria is a member of OPEC‚ or Organization of
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