Absolutely fantastic.
It is beautiful, serene, peaceful.. thank you for posting

nceSaz - Ebrûlî
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Ln5bsmUHU&feature=related

İncesaz - Turkuaz
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFb8aqElodQ&feature=related

Incesaz-Cok asigin var diyorlar| oNr
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnbE5SIieiQ&feature=related

Nihavend Kanun Taksim
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5QZckpwxvY

And adding the word "cim" to a name?

It is a fact religious people in Turkey who demand adultery be a crime are among those whom multiple-marriages are commonplace. That is to say: although civil law prohibits multiple-marriages and recognizes only single-marriages i.e. one man-one woman with the blessing of the Koran, some men marry more than one woman in Turkey. Islam allows four wives! They marry the second wife before an imam rather than a civic official. It is claimed some Parliament members of the AK Party are so married.

Older article from 2004
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/archives.php?id=37661

Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, MD
Dr. Oz is Vice-Chair and Professor of Surgery at Columbia University. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. His research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, complementary medicine and health care policy. He has authored over 400 original publications, book chapters, and medical books and has received several patents. He performs over 300 heart operations annually.

Dr. Oz was born June 11, 1960 in Cleveland, Ohio and received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University (1982) and obtained a joint MD and MBA (1986) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School. He was awarded the Captain's Athletic Award for leadership in college and was Class President followed by President of the Student Body during medical school. He lives in Cliffside Park, NJ with his wife Lisa of 20 years and their 4 children, Daphne, Arabella, Zoe, and Oliver.

Dr. Oz is the health expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show. He is Chief Medical Consultant to Discovery Communications and has hosted several shows including Second Opinion with Dr Oz and Life Line. His Transplant! series on Discovery Health Channel won both a FREDDIE and a Silver TELLY award in September 2006. In addition to numerous appearances on network morning and evening news programs, he has guest hosted The Charlie Rose Show. He also served as medical director of Denzel Washington's John Q.

Dr Oz authored three New York Times bestsellers including You: The Owner's Manual, You: The Smart Patient and You: On a Diet as well as the award winning Healing from the Heart. He has a regular column in Esquire and Reader's Digest magazines.

In addition to belonging to every major professional society for heart surgeons, Dr Oz was elected as a Global Leaders of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, won the prestigious American Association for Thoracic Surgery Gross Research Scholarship, and has received an honorary doctorate from Istanbul University. He was voted "The Best and Brightest" by Esquire and was elected one of the "Doctors of the Year" by Hippocrates magazine and "Healers of the Millennium" by Healthy Living. He is annually elected as one of the best physicians in the USA by the Castle Connolly Guide as well as other major ranking groups. In 2006, he was honored as one of "The Harvard 100 Most influential Alumni" in 02138 Magazine.

http://www2.oprah.com/health/oz/resources/oz_resources_bio.jhtml

We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary
The Guardian,

Wednesday April 30 2008



In May, Jewish organisations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. This is understandable in the context of centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust. Nevertheless, we are Jews who will not be celebrating. Surely it is now time to acknowledge the narrative of the other, the price paid by another people for European anti-semitism and Hitler's genocidal policies. As Edward Said emphasised, what the Holocaust is to the Jews, the Naqba is to the Palestinians.

In April 1948, the same month as the infamous massacre at Deir Yassin and the mortar attack on Palestinian civilians in Haifa's market square, Plan Dalet was put into operation. This authorised the destruction of Palestinian villages and the expulsion of the indigenous population outside the borders of the state. We will not be celebrating.

In July 1948, 70,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes in Lydda and Ramleh in the heat of the summer with no food or water. Hundreds died. It was known as the Death March. We will not be celebrating.

In all, 750,000 Palestinians became refugees. Some 400 villages were wiped off the map. That did not end the ethnic cleansing. Thousands of Palestinians (Israeli citizens) were expelled from the Galilee in 1956. Many thousands more when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza. Under international law and sanctioned by UN resolution 194, refugees from war have a right to return or compensation. Israel has never accepted that right. We will not be celebrating.

We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land. We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state that even now engages in ethnic cleansing, that violates international law, that is inflicting a monstrous collective punishment on the civilian population of Gaza and that continues to deny to Palestinians their human rights and national aspirations.

We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.

Seymour Alexander

Ruth Appleton

Steve Arloff

Rica Bird

Jo Bird

Cllr Jonathan Bloch

Ilse Boas

Prof. Haim Bresheeth

Tanya Bronstein

Sheila Colman

Ruth Clark

Sylvia Cohen

Judith Cravitz

Mike Cushman

Angela Dale

Ivor Dembina

Dr. Linda Edmondson

Nancy Elan

Liz Elkind

Pia Feig

Colin Fine

Deborah Fink

Sylvia Finzi

Brian Fisher MBE

Frank Fisher

Bella Freud

Catherine Fried

Uri Fruchtmann

Stephen Fry

David Garfinkel

Carolyn Gelenter

Claire Glasman

Tony Greenstein

Heinz Grunewald

Michael Halpern

Abe Hayeem

Rosamine Hayeem

Anna Hellman

Amy Hordes

Joan Horrocks

Deborah Hyams

Selma James

Riva Joffe

Yael Oren Kahn

Michael Kalmanovitz

Paul Kaufman

Prof. Adah Kay

Yehudit Keshet

Prof. Eleonore Kofman

Rene Krayer

Stevie Krayer

Berry Kreel

Leah Levane

Les Levidow

Peter Levin

Louis Levy

Ros Levy

Prof. Yosefa Loshitzky

Catherine Lyons

Deborah Maccoby

Daniel Machover

Prof. Emeritus Moshe Machover

Miriam Margolyes OBE

Mike Marqusee

Laura Miller

Simon Natas

Hilda Meers

Martine Miel

Laura Miller

Arthur Neslen

Diana Neslen

Orna Neumann

Harold Pinter

Roland Rance

Frances Rivkin

Sheila Robin

Dr. Brian Robinson

Neil Rogall

Prof. Steven Rose

Mike Rosen

Prof. Jonathan Rosenhead

Leon Rosselson

Michael Sackin

Sabby Sagall

Ian Saville

Alexei Sayle

Anna Schuman

Sidney Schuman

Monika Schwartz

Amanda Sebestyen

Sam Semoff

Linda Shampan

Sybil Shine

Prof. Frances Stewart

Inbar Tamari

Ruth Tenne

Martin Toch

Tirza Waisel

Stanley Walinets

Martin White

Ruth Williams

Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi

Devra Wiseman

Gerry Wolff

Sherry Yanowitz



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/30/israelandthepalestinians

Istanbul's Taksim Square looks deserted to me. Earlier as I ventured out on a splendid May Day morning from my flat nearby to cover this symbolic day dedicated to the workers' rights and other social causes I was filled with anticipation of a peaceful celebration . But the police completely cordoned off the whole area. I was not totally surprised as they were putting up barriers on the eve of May Day. Nevertheless, ominously the entire square was ringed with police in anti riot gear as a foretaste of what was to come later.

What usually is the nerve centre of the city and where the hustle and bustle brims over in a place filled with tourists and local tradesmen, it almost seemed as if the earth stood still and the Square was effectively shut down. The surrounding area and parks lined by huge luxury hotels were hastily transformed into military camp-like zones, on the day which is supposed to be a celebration for unions and the common man.
The outlying streets surrounding Taksim were filled with police and paramilitaries in full gear. In anticipation of violent protests, the authorities shut down schools and most government offices. Some ferries which shuttle commuters across the Bosporus to the Asian side were also shut down. This huge city of around 15 million seemed semi-paralyzed. And in addition to the usual tensions between government and the unions made worse by prospective radical social reforms -- which include a proposed pension overhaul -- Turkey is faced with the "closure case" filed by the Constitutional Court aimed at shutting down the ruling AKP party.


http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=382468&rel_no=1

Portokal, I am sure you will remember the famous opera "Il Pagliacci" by Leoncavallo,it is one of my favorites:

Tebrikler Kurtlovesgrunge for posting such an interesting link!!!

El Camino del Rey near Malaga/Spain:

http://www.brightcove.tv:80/title.jsp?title=1438490562

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/4/4a/20060626222619!Caminito_del_Rey_2.jpg

http://www.taringa.net/posts/videos/1179541/Mamita,-me-caigo-(El-caminito-del-Rey).html

http://www.abc.net.au/gameon/chasm/more.htm

and your general attitude here is of a discontent person, who likes to complain a lot. Grow up!

Quoting tamikidakika:

I bet the only thing they showed was women with full veil and the slums. Typical western journalist approach