Kazancı Bedih - Öyle Sermestem Ki İdrak Etmezem Dünya Nedir


http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=BHuRcDI-l5k

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=vNtAmD78-1k&NR=1

Mount Cilo: How far is Mount Kackar from Mt. Cilo?
http://www.math.umn.edu/~alayont/turkiye/doguanadolu/cilo.html

A fat golden crescent on a dark blue background with the enigmatic caption “Aimez-vous l'Orient?” (Do you love the Orient?) invites visitors to the newest exhibition at the Ottoman Bank Museum titled “Consuming the Orient.”

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=93333

To Love You More by Celine Dion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHYgVnF9aBY

Söyleyemedim Sana


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wop-DE4QyH0

Byzantium in the Imagination of William Butler Yeats
James Haines

Byzantium plays a major role in two mature poems by Irish writer William Butler Yeats (1865–1939): “Sailing to Byzantium” (1926) and “Byzantium”. Though Yeats never visited Istanbul, when travelling through Italy he did see Byzantine church mosaics in Ravenna and Sicily. It is probably from these experiences that the idea of using Byzantium as a symbolic contrast to the Ireland of his day (which he refers to as “no country for old men” in the earlier of the two poems) came to him.

Writing of “Sailing to Byzantium”, Yeats noted that ‘When Irishmen were illuminating the Book of Kells and making the jewelled croziers in the National Museum, Byzantium was the centre of European civilisation and the source of its spiritual philosophy, so I symbolise the search for the spiritual life by a journey to that city’. From Yeats’ letters and prose commentaries, we know that he viewed Byzantium as a sort of heavenly realm which, through its art and architecture, will last eternally. As Yeats himself puts it, Byzantium was a place where ‘religious, aesthetic and practical life were one’, a place where artists and craftsmen ‘spoke to the multitude and the few alike’, a place where he ‘could find in some little wine-shop some philosophical worker in mosaic who could answer all my questions, the supernatural descending nearer to him than to Plotinus even’.

Amazon Frieze, Mausoleum of Halicarnasus

http://idliketocallyourattentionto.blogspot.com/2007/05/amazon-frieze-mausoleum-of-halicarnasus.html

The town of Bodrum is founded on the ancient Halicarnassus, one of the most famous cities antiguity.The archaeological evidences in the museum reflect a past of five thousand years in Bodrum and it is neighborhood.The region, as it can be understood from the various artifacts displayed , was invaded throughtout the centuries by many civilizations. The invaders came mainly from the islands to the region called Caria in the antique age.The region of Caria included the the province of Muğla and part of what is Aydın today Anatolia, then also, was divided into many regions. According to the writers of antiquity, Caria extended from the Menderes river in the west to the Dalaman creek in the east. The native inhabitants of the region were the Carians and the Legians.In the Iliad, Homer mentios the Carians as the inhabitants of Anatolia and allias of the Trojans againts the Greeks.

by William Butler Yeats.


That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
--Those dying generations--at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unaging intellect.


An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.


O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.


Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

http://www.seattlefilm.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=22217&fid=32

in German:
http://www.takva-film.de/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbK3T-rRO7s

http://www.truveo.com/TAKVA-Slave-to-the-GRIND/id/1621284789

that effectively portrays one man’s efforts to live a life according to the principles of his faith; that the institution of his faith presents the greatest test of those principles is the paradox that makes Muharrem’s story so compelling.

http://galaxyofemptiness.blogspot.com/2007/08/takva.html

Ozer Kiziltan's Takva - A Man's Fear Of God was named best film at the 11th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.

The Turkish film about a man's struggle to balance religious devotion with success in a secular world won the $15,000 EurAsia competition.