A Little Fun
This is a scene from a funny, old Turkish movie... Starring: Şener Şen!
Let's watch!!!
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CaliptriX
Something about me only...
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Keçiören Falls(1)
Keçiören is the town where I live. I will put more pictures from here.
Keçiören has waterfalls. That picture is one...
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Ogün Şanlısoy - Saydım
Lyrics:
Geceler boyu sesine uyandım
Sen sandim ellere uzandım
Sana değil kendime kızardım ben
Sen giderken
Aramadım ama elim gitti telefona
Soramadım ama kalbim yine yan yana
Saramadım o belinden bir daha
Sen giderken
Saydım kaç gün oldu
Saydım kaç gece doldu
Saydım her gün aynı dön
Sön istersen
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Murat Çelik - Seyyah
From the band "Düş Sokağı Sakinleri" (disbanded)
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Pentagram (Mezarkabul) - Anatolia
This band's old name is "Pentagram", new name is "Mezarkabul"
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Knight Errant - Nothing's Like Appears
Turkish Metal Band "Knight Errant"
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Duman - Aman Aman
Lyrics:
Nereye gider başını alıp sorarsın
Kimbilir durmadan nasıl susarsın
Bilmeden boşuna atıp tutarsın
Su gibi akıp geçer zaman
Gezdin tozdun aman aman aman
Sazdın sözdün aman aman aman
Giderek üzdün bizi zaman
Yazdın çizdin aman aman aman
İncecik izdin aman aman aman
Sıraya dizdin bizi zaman
Hep kaçıp yeni bir adım atarken
Dibine kadar çileye batıp çıkarken
İçine atıp atıp yoluna basıp giderken
Su gibi akıp geçer zaman
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Mazhar Alanson - Yandım Yandım
Mazhar Alanson - Yandım Yandım
Click here to read the lyrics!
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Tarkan - Kış Güneşi
With Spanish subtitles
Click here to read the lyrics!
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Monday, August 28, 2006
Haluk Levent - Zor Aşk
Haluk Levent's song: Zor Aşk
Lyrics in Turkish:
Zor aşk
Haber saldım dört bir yana
Karanfiller susuz kalmış
Muhabbete dost aradım
Bu şehri periler sarmış
Bitip tükenmez sigaram
Ciğerim nefessiz kalmış
Herşey yalan olsa bile
En güzel aşk zor olanmış
Söyle bana güzel kadın
Herşey yerli yerinde mi
Bırakıp gittiğin gibi
Deniz mavi gök yeşil mi
And translation:
HARD LOVE
everyone I saw I told
dying are the flowers without water
everywhere I looked for a friend
crowded is this city with ghosts
endless is my cigaret
breathless my lung
even if its a complete lie
the most beautifull love is the hardest love
tell me beautifull woman
is everthing in its right place
as when you have left them
is the sea still blue
and the sky still green
Thanks to Erdinç for Turkish translation on www.turkishclass.com
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Çilekeş - Y.O.K.
Çilekeş is a Turkish Rock-Alternative band. This song is Y.O.K. I don't know the meaning for now, but if we see it as "yok", that means "no exist".
Music is great, Let's listen and watch!
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Kıraç - Gönül
Kıraç is a good Turkish singer. He started with Anatolian Rock, now he is famous with the musics of some Turkish TV series: Zerda, Aliye... He plays many instruments, especially guitar. Also his etnic musics are famous. Type of his vocal is similar to Cem Karaca.
This song is "Gönül" ("Heart" or "soul" as meaning). And I think clip is very intresting. Let's see...
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Kargo - Yıldızların Altında
Kargo is a successful Rock band from Istanbul, Turkey. Its line-up before 2001 included Mehmet Şenol Şişli on bass guitar, Selim Öztürk on electric guitar, Koray Candemir on lead vocals, Burak Karataş on drums and Serkan Çeliköz on keyboards.
And this video clip is from their album called "Yıldızların Altında" (Under the stars)
Let's watch and enjoy!
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Yunus Emre
One of the greatest and the deepest poets of the Turkish folk literature. Yunus Emre is a great poet who managed to turn the Anatolian dialect into a language of literature and who succeeded in reciting poetry and chanting hymns in pure Turkish. He has written about issues which looked extremely complex.
Written in a pure and easily understood Turkish, some of his poems, which seem to be over simple at first glance, carry a deep meaning and have a certain quality which grips the reader and excites him, weaving a special magic. Yunus in most of his poems declares his great love for the God. He has felt the elusive excitements of the love of God and also made others to feel it.
In Çeşme (İzmir) every year there is an international song festival dedicated to him.
Resource: www.allaboutturkey.com
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Sunday, August 27, 2006
Blond Joke
I couldnt decide if i should give the link or not... But I think, what will I loose if I give that link... OK, I am giving the link now:
Have you heard this blond joke?
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Şebnem Ferah - Sigara
The second video Sigara (cigarrette) from her 3rd album "Perdeler".
Some painful lyrics, and nice music. Listen!
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12 Giant Men
The Turkey national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Turkey in international competitions. The team is nicknamed and called mostly as "12 Dev Adam" (literally: "12 Giant Men").
Turkey was awarded one of the four wild cards by FIBA for the qualification to the Basketball World Championship 2006 in Japan.
Turkish squad completed the prilimary rounds in Group C at second place after the Greek team, and was entitled to play in the round of 16, winning 4 matches against Lithuania (76-74), Australia (76-68), Brazil (73-71) and Qatar (76-69) of the total 5, beaten only by Greece (69-76) in the last match. The young team made also achievements such as the first official win over Lithuania and the first ever 4 consequtive wins in a championship.
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Saturday, August 26, 2006
Turkish Flag
Flag in use since 1844 and officially adopted 5 June 1936, coat of arms adopted in 1927.
Proportion: 2:3.
Description: Red flag with a white crescent and star.
Use: on land as the national, civil and war flag, on sea as the national, civil and war ensign and the naval jack.
Meaning of the Turkish flag
Meaning of flags is a difficult topic, especially when flags are very ancient. There is usually sparse historical evidence and a lot of legends. Moreover, individuals may have their own interpretation of their national flag. Concerning Turkey, I found the following in the authoritative books of W. Smith ([smi75c] & [smi80]):
Historical facts:
Red has been prominent in Turkish flags for 700 years. The star and crescent are Muslim symbols, but also have a long pre-Islamic past in Asia Minor. The basic form of the national flag was apparently established in 1793 under Sultan Selim III, when the green flags used by the navy were changed to red and a white crescent and multipointed star were added. The five-pointed star dates from approximately 1844. Except for the issuance of design specifications, no change was made when the Ottoman State became the Republic of Turkey and the Caliphate (religious authority) was terminated. Many traditions explain the star and crescent symbol. It is known that Diana was the patron goddess of Byzantium and that her symbol was a moon. In 330, the Emperor Constantine rededicated the city - which he called Constantinople - to the Virgin Mary, whose star symbol was superimposed over the crescent. In 1453 Constantinople was captured by the Ottoman Turks and renamed Istanbul, but its new rulers may have adopted the existing emblem for their own use.
Legends:
A reflection of the moon occulting a star, appearing in pools of blood after the battle of Kosovo in 1448*, led to the adoption of the Turkish flag by Sultan Murad II according to one legend. Others refer to a dream of the first Ottoman Emperor in which a crescent and star appeared from his chest and expanded, presaging the dynasty's seizure of Constantinople. At least three other legends explain the flag.
Ivan Sache, 20 January 1999
*There was a "Second Kosovo War", which is as popular as the first one from the perspective of Ottoman history, and the year 1448 refers to this war. This war continued for only two days (17-19 October 1448) and it was in the time of Sultan Murat II, unlike the first war (which was during the rule of Sultan Murat I). The resources refer the second war as a bloody war, which supports the legend of the origin of Turkish flag.
Onur Özgün, 2 April 2005
Nicknames of the flag
Turkish people call their national flag ay yildiz (moon star).
Resat Erel, 20 June 1999
Ayyildiz is also the name of a Turkish city at approx. 36.80 latitude, 37.73 longitude.
Don White, 2 August 2004
Another nickname for the flag is al sancak, which translates into "red banner". Besides, sancak has its unique meaning in Turkish and cannot be directly translated into English, but the nearest to that is the "banner".
Cem Kenan Magripli, 28 January 2004
I think "red banner" is a good translation for al sancak. I think this nickname for the Turkish flag comes from the words of the Turkish national anthem Istiklal Marsi. The poet of national anthem, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, used this metaphor for the flag.
Coming to the translation, sancak is defined as "banner", "flag" or "standard" in Turkish-English dictionaries that I've looked up. The Turkish definition of sancak is "flag carried by military unit, usually having writings, fringe and pole". Today, I think it corresponds to "banner", however its meaning when it was first used could be different and can mean any flag.
The very same word was used in Ottoman times for an administrative unit (see also Sandžak in Serbia and Montenegro). but is does not correspond to any administrative division in Turkey any more.
Onur Özgün, 28 January 2004
As I understood, the administrative unit was named sancak after it being ruled by a ruler who had right and duty to maintain a military unit that carried his flag , i.e. a (territoirial) sancak would provide one unit with a flag.
Željko Heimer, 29 July 2004
Construction sheet for the Turkish flag
Construction sheet for the flag of Turkey - Image by Željko Heimer
The construction sheet is given in a book on Turkish flags [kur92].
The book is in Turkish, 170 pages, with some 30 colour plates of historical and current flags and some black and white photos. It might be that the construction is taken from the flag law which is quoted in full in the book.
The above image is based on the construction sheet in the book, adapted slightly to make it better looking as a digital image. The base unit is the flag width and other dimensions are expressed through it. The center of the circle forming the crescent is half flag width from the hoist, with diameter of the same (i.e. radius 1/4 as indicated on the image). The inner circle forming the crescent has a radius of 1/5 and is offset towards the fly 0.0625 (1/16) [the book actually give number 0.625 here, but that must be printing error as it would make no sense!]. The two circles intersect, forming the "indentation" of the crescent to be 1/3. The five-pointed star is inscribed in a circle with diameter 1/4, tangential to the line connecting the intersections of the two circles. The construction sheet also gives the width of the white heading on hoist (not shown on the image) as 1/30 of the flag width.
Željko Heimer, 2 March 1999
In a book on Turkish flags [vht94] issued by the VDCN (March 1994) is the same construction sheet. In the accompanying table, the white heading on hoist is given as "Width of the seam band".
Mark Sensen, 8 March 1999
The very same construction sheet already appeared in the Flaggenbuch (1939-1941) [neu92]
Ivan Sache, 1 October 1999
Resource: fotw.vexillum.com
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Turkish Coffee
Turkish coffee is a specific way of preparing coffee. It is common throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Somaliland and Balkan countries. This method of preparation is believed to have originated in Damascus and to have become widespread during the Ottoman State - hence the eventual appelation 'Turkish coffee'. In Turkey, it was known simply as "coffee" (kahve) until instant coffee was brought in during the 1980s. Today younger generations refer to the beverage as "Turkish coffee" (Türk kahvesi)
Equipment
The necessary equipment to prepare Turkish coffee consists of a narrow-topped small boiling pot called cezve or džezva, a teaspoon and a heating apparatus. The ingredients are finely ground coffee, cold water and (if desired) sugar. It is served in cups (fincan or fildžan) similar in size to Italian espresso or Japanese sake cups. Some modern cups do have handles. Traditional cups did not, and coffee was drunk either by handling the cup with the tip of the fingers or, more often, by placing the cup in a zarf, a metal container with a handle.
Traditionally, the pot is made of copper and has a wooden handle. The size of the pot is chosen to be close to the total volume of the cups to be prepared, since using a too large pot results in most of the precious foam sticking to the inside of it. Also, a certain depth of water is necessary for the coffee particles to sink. The teaspoon is used both for stirring and measuring the amount of coffee and sugar. Note that the teaspoons in the United States are much larger than the teaspoons in countries where Turkish coffee is common. The dipping parts of the teaspoons in these countries are about 1 cm long and 0.5 cm wide. For heating, an ordinary stove burner is sufficient, but too strong of a heat source is undesirable, as the brewing time needs to be at least five minutes.
After this general description, personal brewing preferences vary. Below is one example.
Preparation
As with other ways of preparing coffee, the best Turkish coffee is made from freshly roasted beans ground just before brewing. A dark roast is preferable but even a medium roast coffee will yield a strong aroma and flavour. The grinding is done either by pounding in a mortar (the authentic method) or using a mill (the more usual method today), and the end result is a fine coffee powder. Beans for Turkish coffee are ground even finer than the grind used in pump-driven espresso makers, therefore, Turkish coffee should be powdery. It is the finest grind of coffee used in any style of coffee making. For best coffee, the water needs to be cold. Due to this, if sugar is desired, an easily dissolvable form should be chosen.
The amount of water necessary can be measured using the cups. The coffee and the sugar are usually added to water, rather than being put into the pot first. For each cup between one and two heaped teaspoons of coffee are used. In Turkey, four degrees of sweetness are used. The Turkish terms and approximate amounts are as follows: sade (plain; no sugar), az şekerli (little sugar; half a levelled teaspoon of sugar), orta şekerli (medium sugar; one levelled teaspoon), and çok şekerli (a lot of sugar; one and a half or two levelled teaspoons). The coffee and the desired amount of sugar are stirred until all coffee sinks and the sugar is dissolved. Following this, the spoon is removed and the pot is put on the fire. No stirring is done beyond this point, as it would dissolve the foam. Just as the coffee begins boiling, the pot is removed from the fire and the coffee is poured into the cups.
A well-prepared Turkish coffee has a thick foam at the top (kaymak in Turkish), is homogeneous, and does not contain noticeable particles in the foam or the liquid. This can be achieved only if cold water and a low heat are used. Starting with warm water or a strong heat does not leave enough time for either the coffee to sink or the foam to form. It is possible to wait an additional twenty seconds past boiling, which makes a homogeneous and delicious coffee, but the foam is completely lost. To overcome this, foam can be removed and put into cups earlier and the rest can be left to boil. In this case special attention must be paid to transfer only the foam and not the suspended particles.
There are other schools of preparing Turkish coffee that vary from the above. One such method involves starting with hot water alone, then adding and dissolving the sugar. The product is in essence a sugar syrup, with a higher boiling point than water. The coffee and cardamom are added, and the mixture is stirred. It is then brought to a boil and just before serving is removed from the heat for a few seconds and returned to it, being brought to a brief boil a second time. This double (and sometimes triple) boiling is an essential part of the process, both ceremonially and—as connoissieurs claim—on the palate.
Drinking
All the coffee in the pot is poured into cups, but not all of it is drunk.
Turkish coffee is drunk slowly and is usually served with a glass of cold water (to freshen the mouth to better taste the coffee before sipping), though sometimes, especially after dinner, with a small glass of mint liqueur.
The thick layer of sludgy grounds at the bottom of the cup is left behind. The cup is then commonly turned over into the saucer to cool, and then the patterns of the coffee grounds can be used for a kind of fortune telling called tasseography, or tasseomancy (kafemandeia in Greek). These terms also refer to the reading of tea leaves.
Turkish coffee grounds are sometimes flavoured with cardamom, eliminating the need to have it added during preparation.
More links:
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Friday, August 18, 2006
Haluk Levent - Yandırdın Kalbimi (Sensiz Yaşayabilmirem)
Haluk Levent is a Turkish rock singer. He has many albums. Yandırdın Kalbimi is from the album "Annemin Türküleri" (Songs of my Mother).
Click here to read lyrics!
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Sema; Sufi Dance
Sema is part of the inspiration of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi (1207- 1273) as well as of Turkish custom, history, beliefs and culture.
From a scientific viewpoint we witness that contemporary science definitely confirms that the fundamental condition of our existence is to revolve. There is no object, no being which does not revolve and the shared similarity among beings is the revolution of the electrons, protons and neutrons in the atoms, which constitute the structure of each of them. As a consequence of this similarity, everything revolves and man carries on his live, his very existence by means of the revolution in the atoms, structural stones of his body, by the revolution of his blood, by his coming from the earth and return to it, by his revolving with earth itself.
For more: www.mevlana.net/sema.htm
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Monday, August 14, 2006
Eskişehir
Eskişehir (literal meaning: old town) is a province in northwestern Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Bilecik to the northwest, Kutahya to the west, Afyon to the southwest, Konya to the south, Ankara to the east, and Bolu to the north. The provincial capital is Eskişehir.
Eskişehir is an old, culturally developed city of Turkey. It has a population of 700,000. Eskişehir government and municipality creates a European City in the middle of Anatolia. Eskişehir has 2 universities, one of them, called Anadolu Üniversitesi, is the largest university in Turkey and is a world wide university which has some branch offices in Europe. The other university, called Osmangazi Üniversitesi ESOGU, has a good department of medicine.
Resource: Wikipedia
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Friday, August 11, 2006
Spleak, Virtual MSN Friend...
Have you heard who Spleak is?
She says that she is a virtual MSN friend...
Add her, maybe you enjoy!
MSN: spleak@hotmail.com , click for more information about Spleak
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Scratched CDs? No Problem!
We’ve all been there, bought a preowned game, put it excitedly into the console, then shouted “OMFGz0rWTF!?!?” as the console wouldn’t recognise the game. Or perhaps you have a CD which contains important data, and M$ Windoze gives you a “Cyclic Redundancy Check” error (fancy way of saying ‘Your disc is bloody SCRATCHED’).
Whatever your problem is, it’s caused by the same thing: A scratch. A scratched CD or DVD is just annoying!
So I took it upon myself to perform an experiment, to determine the very best way of dealing with a scratched disc. The limit I set myself, though, was that whatever I did it with must be somewhere in my house, and can’t take longer than 5 minutes, including waiting time for things to dry, etc.
I thought of three main ways to cope with scratches:
For more: http://www.om3ga.co.uk/2006/07/27/scratched-cds-no-problem/
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Athena - Kime Ne
Athena is a Ska-Punk band from Istanbul, Turkey. Its current line-up is composed of Hakan Özoğuz, Gökhan Özoğuz, Burak Gürpinar and Ozan Musluoğlu.
For more: Click to see Athena on Wikipedia
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Lugano is in Fenerbahçe!
- Diego Alfredo Lugano Moreno is a defender playing in Brazilian team Sao Paolo FC.
- He is from Uruguay and playing for his national team as a captain.
- Born in Canelones, 26 years old (02-11-1980).
- 83 kg and 1.88 m
- His idol is Hugo de Leon who is a legend Uruguayan defender.
- Chosen to the team of South America in 2005
- Selected the MVP of the World Club Championship Final match (1-0) against Liverpool.
- Has a nickname; Tota.
- Teams linked with him in 2005 were AC Milan, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Sevilla. AC Milan, Inter Milan and Real Madrid had refusals from Sao Paolo FC due to low fee offers, despite the permission gained by Liverpool and Sevilla with required fee offered, Lugano rejected to move to those clubs.
- He said to the press in one of his interview that “My jersey is my pride and I will do anything for my pride.”
- He has named the best defender of the continent South America, by the legend Brazilian player Zico
Resource: fenerbahce.wordpress.com/2006/07/24/who-is-diego-lugano/
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Mountain Nemrut
Rising 2150 meters from the Anti-Taurus mountains in south central Turkey stands the archaeological site of Nemrut Dagi (pronounced NEHM-root dah-uh). Thought to be the burial tumulus and Hierotheseion ('Holy Seat) of the 1st century BC Commagene king, Antiochus I Epiphanes, the site is as awe inspiring as it is enigmatic
The unique mountain top shrine was unknown to all but local herders until its discovery in 1881 by a geologist in the employ of the Ottoman government. Archaeological excavations in 1953 by the American School of Oriental Research have conducted precise surveys of the site and instituted a preservation program but have provided little insight into the either the methods of construction or ancient use of the strange rock hill and its temples.
For more:
www.sacredsites.com/middle_east/turkey/nemrutdagi.htm
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Kurban - Yine (Video Clip)
As I wrote something about the Turkish band Kurban, now I put the clip of the Yine by Kurban.
Let's watch!
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Monday, August 07, 2006
Fearless
The last Jet Li film. Directed by Ronny Yu
Superstar Jet Li headlines this action-packed film, his final martial arts epic. The film reteams him with producer Bill Kong ("Hero") and action director and choreographer Yuen Wo Ping ("Unleashed"). Li plays real-life martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia, who became the most famous fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced incredible personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness and into history, forever defining himself at a tournament for the honor of his country and the true spirit of martial arts.
You can see more at:
www.fearlessthemovie.com
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Pee in Race
Everyone has natural calls...
Here, Rossi has too... Even though he is in a motorcycle race, he has to go to the WC...
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Sunday, August 06, 2006
Effective Raid
We can get clear of Spiderman with Raid!!! It is very effective!!!!
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