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A little bit of Turkey in the U.S.
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06 Dec 2012 Thu 12:42 pm |
Selam! If you are interested in seeing the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C., I invite you to visit my user profile, where I have posted some pictures. (Didn´t know how to post a photo in a forum thread. Sorry.) The building is fairly new -- it was completed in 1999 -- but it evokes traditional Turkish architecture. I think it is beautiful!
I have also included pictures of the ambassador´s residence, which is a few blocks down the street, and of the Islamic Center, which is right next door to the embassy.
Whenever I drive by these buildings, I think of my friends at Turkish Class.
P.S. -- I should apologize for the sideways photo. If anyone can help me set it right, please let me know.
Edited (12/6/2012) by trip
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06 Dec 2012 Thu 12:56 pm |
When you want to post a picture in the forum,
1. mark the photo then cilick "copy image"
2.come to your forum message...position your cursor...click "paste"
You can sue me, if your picture does not immediately appear on your message.
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08 Dec 2012 Sat 09:21 am |
I have given this another try using AlphaF´s directions. Hope this works!
Here is a different view of the embassy.
Edited (12/9/2012) by trip
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08 Dec 2012 Sat 09:37 am |
One more, of the great man, Atatürk. Yes, he stands in Washington!
(Yardım için teşekkür ederim, AlphaF!)
Edited (12/9/2012) by trip
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08 Dec 2012 Sat 05:21 pm |
i see nothing. only two file names. untitled.png etc.
use insert/edit image button while replying a message. copy the full photo URL ending with a photo extention such as jpg, png.
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09 Dec 2012 Sun 08:52 am |
I have tried to fix this. Hope you can see the pictures now. I think I know what the trouble was. Let´s hope the images stay this time!
Edited (12/9/2012) by trip
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09 Dec 2012 Sun 09:35 am |
i checked the links, here what i found:
Untitled.png webkit-fake-url://C3B0C536-874D-41A1-A387-B2D21C4273F1/Untitled.png
try2.png webkit-fake-url://B46AEF29-ADD4-432B-9031-5B78B64C7D8D/try2.png
as you see, they are forwarding you to a fake url (web address). maybe there is a right click and/or copy protection. if you share the full url, i may find the right picture locations and insert the pictures here.
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09 Dec 2012 Sun 10:12 am |
Do you still not see the pictures, ikicihan? I can see them on the thread. They are pictures that I took, so they do not have a url. They are not on another web site. They are just jpgs of mine. ... Maybe this will not work after all. ... Sorry.
Edited (12/9/2012) by trip
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09 Dec 2012 Sun 01:02 pm |
Do you still not see the pictures, ikicihan? I can see them on the thread. They are pictures that I took, so they do not have a url. They are not on another web site. They are just jpgs of mine. ... Maybe this will not work after all. ... Sorry.
If they don´t have an url we can´t see them. You can upload them to flickr site and this way you can share them with us.
http://www.flickr.com/
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10 Dec 2012 Mon 09:15 am |
Okay, guys, you can see I´m technically challenged. One last try and I will not trouble you anymore with this. Four photos you can see at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90935288@N04/
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10 Dec 2012 Mon 09:21 am |
Yayyyy Martha, at least we can see the photos on Flicker.
I know how frustrated you feel, I was able to post 3 photos from flicker, but for some reason the 4th photo refused to allow a jpg link other than a small size.
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10 Dec 2012 Mon 10:44 am |
Turkish Embassy
Turkish Embassy
Turkish Embassy
Islamic Center
Edited (12/10/2012) by ikicihan
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10 Dec 2012 Mon 04:04 pm |
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Is this part of the Turkish Embassy ? It looks like mosque alright, but not at all like a Turkish Mosque.
Wonder who is the genius behind this idea !
Edited (12/10/2012) by AlphaF
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10 Dec 2012 Mon 04:50 pm |
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Is this part of the Turkish Embassy ? It looks like mosque alright, but not at all like a Turkish Mosque.
Wonder who is the genius behind this idea !
It is a mosque Alpha. It is the Islamic Centre as "trip" wrote in her previous posts.
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10 Dec 2012 Mon 05:24 pm |
It is a mosque Alpha. It is the Islamic Centre as "trip" wrote in her previous posts.
That is OK then...Thank you..
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11 Dec 2012 Tue 05:48 am |
You are all so nice!
Ikicihan, yardım için teşekkür ederim!
The Islamic Center opened in 1957. Part of its mission is to promote a better understanding of Islam in the United States, but it is also an active mosque.
The Turkish Embassy moved near it in 1999. Before that, the embassy was a few blocks away in what is now the Turkish ambassador´s residence (a photo is on my profile). Turkey began renting this building in 1932 and then bought it in 1936. It was built in 1910 for an American industrialist by George Oakley Totten Jr., an American architect who had briefly been the official architect for Sultan Abdülhamid II. (I find this all so interesting!) Evidently, the residence has Ottoman touches inside. This from Cornucopia magazine:
"The man who built the mansion, Edward Hamlin Everett, was a mogul from Cleveland, Ohio who had invented the bottle top, earning the nickname “the Bottle-Top King." ... His chosen architect, George Oakley Totten Jr, was a graduate of the Paris École des Beaux-Arts and, like many from that school, a master of the eclecticism popular in the first decade of the 20th century. Uniquely, however, he had spent time in Istanbul, in the employ of both the sultan and the grand vizier. Totten had travelled to the Ottoman Empire in 1908 to construct the chancery of the American embassy – an annex to the Palazzo Corpi that is still visible today. While there he was commissioned to build a grand residence for Izzet Pasha, a prominent figure in the court of Sultan Abdülhamid II, later to be grand vizier. Abdülhamid himself then employed him as “Private Architect to the Sultan”, but before Totten could accede to this position, the sultan was ousted in the Young Turk Revolution of 1909. Returning to Washington DC, Totten quickly became the darling of those seeking statement architecture in the city’s fashionable Northwest."
If you would like to read more from this article, which tells about Mehmet Münir Ertegün, the first ambassador to live in the residence, and his family:
http://www.cornucopia.net/magazine/articles/the-bottle-top-mansion/
Edited (12/11/2012) by trip
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