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Entelektüeller 'Edward Said Anısına' İstanbul'da buluşuyor

İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kültürel ve Sosyal İşler Daire Başkanlığı, Türk düşÃ¼ncesine katkı sağlamak amacıyla 9-10 Aralık 2006 tarihlerinde Cemal Reşit Rey Konser Salonu'nda Edward Said anısına Uluslararası Oryantalizm Sempozyumu düzenliyor. Dünyaca ünlü entelektüellerin Edward Said anısına bir araya gelecekleri sempozyuma Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Hasan Hanafi, Robert J. C. Young, Reina Lewis, Pervez Manzoor, Boby S. Sayyid gibi önemli isimlerin yanı sıra Türkiye'den de Şerif Mardin, İlber Ortaylı, Jale Parla, Fuat Keyman, Turgut Cansever, Korkut Tuna gibi Türk düşÃ¼nce hayatına yön veren değerli akademisyenler ve araştırmacılar katılacak. Sempozyum 8 Aralık saat: 19.00'da Feshane Uluslararası Fuar Kongre ve Kültür Merkezi'nde Prof. Dr. Şerif Mardin'in “Türkiye'de Oryantalizm Tartışmaları ve Algısı” başlıklı bir konuşması ile açılacak. Ayrıca sempozyum çerçevesinde “Oryantalist Gravürler” konulu bir sergi de sanatseverlerle buluşuyor.

Istanbul Archaeology Museums, which were established as Müze-i Humayun (Empire Museum) by the famous artist and museum director Osman Hamdi Bey at the end of the 19th century, were opened to public on June 13, 1891. Besides its importance as the “first Turkish museum”, it has an importance and specialty being one of the museum buildings that are constructed as a Museum in the World. Today, it still protects its outstanding place in the World’s biggest museums with its works more than a million belonging to various cultures.

In the museum collections, there are rich and very important works of art belonging to various civilizations from the regions from Balkans to Africa, from Anatolia and Mesopotamia to Arab Peninsula and Afghanistan that were in the borders of the Ottoman Empire.

The Scientific Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) is preparing to launch a satellite over Turkey in 2008.

The council’s Space Technologies Research Institute (UZAY) is finally preparing the launch of the first Turkish satellite to travel into space in 14 years; after the TURKSAT satellites were launched in 1994.


The federal State Planning Organization will support the project with $10 million. The satellite will provide imaging for public organizations, such as the Emergency Management General Directorate.


Visiting the production facilities in Ankara, Turkish Space Research Chief Ugur Murat Leloglu said that, if successful, Turkey’s space program would eliminate Turkey’s dependency on other countries for satellite imaging.

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I LOVE MY COUNTRY

I love my country :
I have swung on its plane trees, I have stayed in its prisons.
Nothing can overcome my spleen
as the songs and tobacco of my country.

My country :
Bedreddin, Sinan, Yunus Emre and Sakarya,
lead domes and factory chimneys
are all the work of my people
who even hiding from themselves
smile under their drooping mustaches.

My country.
My country is so large :
it seems that it is endless to go around.
Edirné, Izmir, Ulukıshla, Marash, Trabzon, Erzurum.
I know the Erzurum plateau only in its songs
and I am ashamed
not to have crossed Tauruses even once
to go to the cotton pickers
in the south.

My country :
camels, train, Fords and sick donkeys,
poplar
willow
and red earth.

My country.
The trout which likes
pine forests, best freshwaters and the lakes
at the top of mountains,
and at least half a kilo,
with red reflections on its scaleless, silver skin
swims in the Abant lake of Bolu.

My country :
goats on the Ankara plain :
the sheen of blond, silky, long furs.
The fat plump hazelnuts of Giresun.
The fragrant red-cheeked apples of Amasya,
olive
fig
melon
and of all colours
bunches and bunches of grapes
and then the plough
and then the black ox
and then : ready to accept
everything
advanced, beautiful and good
with the joyous admiration of a child
my hard-working, honest, brave people
half hungry, half full
half slave...

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Hacıbektas

The meaning of Alevi who follows Hz.Ali's way as a philosophy. Modern Alevi theology has been profoundly influenced by humanism and universalism.Hacı Bektas Veli who lived in the 13th century, is just one of the Alevi’s principal theologians. Alevis use religious music and dance, called semah, to show their belief in Allah.. Every year mid August which is a saint’s day for the honour of Haci Bektas, Alevis gather together in this small town of Nevsehir in Anatolia which is pilgrims place.

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Yeni Mosque is located in Eminönü Square next to the Egyptian Spice Bazaar. It is at the center of a complex and has a striking place in the skyline of İstanbul. Construction of the mosque was started in honour of Sultan Mehmed III's mother and Sultan Murad III's wife Safiye Sultan in 1597. The architect, Architect Davud Ağa, began working on the design of the mosque until Dalgıç Ahmed Ağa took over after 1598. The mosque was only half-finished when Sultan Ahmed I came to the throne.

It was abandoned for nearly fifty years, during which the houses of the Jewish community surrounding it become so numerous that it was referred to as "Zulmiyye" or "the wronged". Construction began again at the initiative of Sultan Mehmed IV's mother, Hatice Turhan Sultan, in 1661. It was completed in 1663, with Mustafa Ağa as the architect.

The complex contained a mosque, a primary school, fountains, the summer house of the sovereign and a mausoleum. All but the primary school are standing today. Due to the widening of roads around the mosque the outer courtyard was removed. On the side of the Egyptian Bazaar is an inner courtyard containing 18 pillars, 21 domes, three doors and a beautiful reservoir for ablutions. The area for late-arriving worshippers has eight pillars, nine domes and is covered with glazed tiles up to the base of the windows on the second floor. Above the windows can be seen the calligraphy of Hattat Tenekecizade Mustafa Çelebi. To the left and right are two minarets each with three galleries. The mosque is entered by a flight of steps through three separate doors. It has a square plan. The main dome rests on four half-domes as well as four arches and four elephant feet decorated with glazed tiles. There are a total of 66 domes, including four in the corners and those on the side of the mausoleum and bridge, which are surrounded by columns. The mosque niche and pulpit are made of white marble, and the left of the niche is decorated with a mosaic of gems. The summer house is said to have been built for Turhan Sultan and is a striking structure exhibiting all the characteristic of a classic Turkish house. It was positioned in such a way as to ensure one of the finest panoramic views in the city. The structure has a living room, or salon; and three other rooms. The walls are covered with valuable İznik glazed tiles. The woodwork is inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl. It was used as a storeroom until 1948, restored between 1948-1966 and opened as a museum in 1967.

The complex includes the mausoleum of Hatice Turhan Sultan, in which five sultans and a large number of royalty make up the largest burial site of the bloodline of the Ottomans. Besides Hatice Turhan Sultan, there are the graves of Sultan Mehmed IV, Sultan Osman III, Sultan Mustafa II, Sultan Ahmed III and Sultan Mahmud I. The dome which covers the mausoleum has a diameter of more than 15 meters.