Wrath of the Gods—Earthquakes in Turkey

Nowhere have civilization and nature waged more persistent war than in this part of the world—from easternmost Turkey to the western tip of Greece.

In the first century B.C., a self-absorbed kind named Antiochus I, ruler of the ancient land of Commagene, built an audacious tomb and monument to himself on top of a 7,000-foot-high (2,134-meter-high) mountain called Nemrud Dagh. There, he proclaimed, his mausoleum would be "unravaged by the outrages of time."

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth/the-dynamic-earth/anatolian-fault.html

 http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth/the-dynamic-earth/anatolian-history.html

29 Ekim 2007 Cumhuriyet Bayramý

http://www.stockvault.net/videos/video/D81-84zu75Q.html

Leman Sam_Rüzgar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOjzzbsil7U

also to my friends here in TLC: Bayrami kutlu olsun!

Esther, here is the one:

Does the Koran say Muslims should in any way avoid alcohol but can at times exhibit the most extreme forms of extravagant behavior? Does the Koran not remind Muslims in every other verse to avoid “going to extremes?” Are some teachings of the Koran holy and the others less holy?  

http://manager.tdn.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=114313

To say the least, Esther and  I totally agree with you!

Dolmabahçe is a kitsch extravagance

A hybrid of Islamic and Victorian kitsch

Was  this scene the Battle of Molodi?? During the Ottoman Empire??

puf böreði ve  SOÐANLI BÖREK

for all who like Turkish cooking including me

Basic dough made with butter or margarine (specially chosen for making börek, a hard white margarine) resembles puff pastry. This can be used for making börek with a range of fillings such as Türk böreði, which is filled with minced lamb flavored with cumin, parsley, pine nuts and currants.

Dough for puf böreði consists of a paste made from flour, yoghurt, salt, lemon juice, fat and water. After it is rolled out to a large round, softened butter or margarine is spread over the paste, and it is cut into nine wedges that are then folded on top of each other. This dough is a crude flaky pastry.

Dough for making kol böreði consists of flour, salt, water and sometimes egg. The preparation differs significantly from other böreks as the fat is worked while the dough is flicked on a greased surface. No rolling pin is used. The pastry is rolled out in a way that is similar to strudel pastry. The classic fillings include lor (ricotta-style) cheese, minced meat, spinach or mashed, lightly spiced potato.

The dough for making mantý (Turkish ravioli) consists of flour, salt, milk or water and sometimes an egg. Mantý is not a type of börek, but a version of yufka is used to make it.

Katmer is another layered pastry which consists of fat spread over a number of rolled out pieces of dough. It is a simpler version than other pastries, is cooked on a griddle, and can be eaten alone, with tea or as an accompaniment to other foods.

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=157010

Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio is perhaps the most famous of the Turkish style operas, in which virtuous women are rescued from a harem and the sinister Turks. The opera includes two Janissary marches and one can listen to the entire opera over at.This imitation of Turkish music became so popular in Mozart’s time that special pianos were outfitted with a “Turkish Stop” or “Janissary Stop”, which included a pedal that caused a bell to ring or padded hammer to be struck to imitate a bass drum. Other pianos with built-in bells, tambourines, cymbals, bass drums and other noise-makers became all the rage at the turn of the 19th century.

http://curiousexpeditions.org/?paged=2