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... that
Turkish-Romani musician
Selim Sesler was called "the
Coltrane of the
clarinet "? (May 16, 2014)
... that Turkish painter
İbrahim Balaban 's talent was discovered in prison by fellow inmate and famous Turkish poet
Nâzım Hikmet Ran , who called him "my peasant painter"? (May 10, 2014)
... that
Yalçın Granit became the first Turkish basketballer to play in a European team when he went to France for his doctoral studies? (May 8, 2014)
... that the construction of the
Deliktaş Tunnel , Turkey's longest
railway tunnel , lasted almost four decades? (April 18, 2014)
... that
Denis Legerský was allowed to play for the
Turkish national ice hockey team in a friendly match in 2014, even though he is a
Slovak citizen ? (April 11, 2014)
... that
Cold War -era spy
Hüseyin Yıldırım , sentenced to life without parole in the United States, was later pardoned and secretly extradited to Turkey, where he stayed only one day in prison? (April 2, 2014)
... that
Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu , nicknamed the "Screwdriver Killer", is the
serial killer with the highest known victim count in
Turkey ? (March 22, 2014)
... that 29 inmates escaped from
Metris Prison in
Istanbul through a self-built tunnel while the prison was still under military administration? (March 20, 2014)
... that the 2011-opened
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library in
Istanbul is housed in a building, which once served for
Ottoman sultans to accept salutes during a military parade? (February 26, 2014)
... that former Turkish Minister of Customs and Monopolies,
Tuncay Mataracı , was sentenced in 1982 to a 36-year term of imprisonment for
bribery and abuse of power? (February 24, 2014)
... that one of the accused assassins of Turkish former government minister
Gün Sazak later hijacked an airplane to Bulgaria with accomplices? (February 21, 2014)
... that
Hakan Kıran , Turkish architect of the
Golden Horn Metro Bridge , chose his profession because he was impressed by the concept of the town constructed by the French, in which he grew up? (February 14, 2014)
... that the
Öküz Mehmed Pasha Caravanserai in
Kuşadası , Turkey was built in 1618 in the form of a small
citadel with a
battlement and
merlons on its top? (February 9, 2014)
... that the
Golden Horn Metro Bridge in
Istanbul is a
cable-stayed bridge , which has a
swing bridge on one side and features a metro station in the middle? (February 8, 2014)
...that following the assassination of
Diyarbakır police chief
Gaffar Okkan in 2001, more than a hundred babies were named after him? (February 7, 2014)
... that following a
corruption scandal in Turkey , PM
Erdoğan reshuffled his cabinet appointing ten ministers, among them nine new –
Ala ,
Çavuşoğlu ,
Elvan ,
Güllüce ,
Işık ,
İslam ,
İşler ,
Kılıç and
Zeybekci ? (January 31, 2014)
... that
women's football
forward
Seyhan Gündüz was
capped 32 times internationally, scoring 12 goals, a rate of 0.375 a match? (January 28, 2014)
... that unlike other cemeteries in
Turkey that accommodate one religion only,
Mersin Interfaith Cemetery includes graves of
Muslims ,
Christians and
Jews ? (January 15, 2014)
... that, with its total installed capacity of 95 MW, the
Kızıldere Geothermal Power Plant is the biggest of its kind in
Turkey ? (January 13, 2014)
... that
Arzu Karabulut currently plays for both
German and
Turkish football teams? (January 7, 2014)
... that
Leyla Güngör scored a goal against
Spain in her first game as a member of the
Turkey women's national football team ? (December 23, 2013)
... that the female footballer
Bilgin Defterli decided to go to
Germany because she saw no chance to play
football in Turkey due to the dissolution of women's football leagues in 2003? (December 19, 2013)
... that the town of
Datça petitioned in 2008 to have the
British Museum 's
Lion of Knidos
(pictured) returned to
Turkey ? (December 7, 2013)
... that the busts of
Miklós Zrínyi and
Sultan Suleiman , rivals at the
Siege of Szigetvár in 1566, stand in the
Hungarian-Turkish Friendship Park
(pictured) side-by-side rather than confronting one another? (October 7, 2013)
... that
Tahir Aydoğdu and his father Gültekin are both players of the
qanun , an instrument of
Turkish classical music ? (July 8, 2013)
... that visitors to the
Ulucanlar Prison Museum who pay extra to be handcuffed and locked in an isolation cell for a limited time may not leave it before the agreed time is up? (April 26, 2013)
... that
Monastery of the Transfiguration of Kinaliada is where Byzantine emperor
Romanos IV Diogenes was exiled after his eyes were gouged out? (April 9, 2013)
... that Krikor Apikoğlu founded
Apikoğlu , the first
company to
mass produce meat products in Turkey? (March 9, 2013)
... that
Tayyare Apartments in
Istanbul , originally built in 1922 for the victims of a fire disaster, house a five-star hotel today? (March 6, 2013)
... that
Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus
(pictured) in
Turkey , established in 1955, is the longest-serving member of the
Hilton Hotels chain outside the
United States ? (February 21, 2013)
... that due to a
campaign in Turkey , speaking a language other than Turkish was illegal in many parts of the country? (January 15, 2013)
... that Israel expressed objections to the newly launched Turkish
reconnaissance satellite
Göktürk-2 , fearing that
high resolution imagery of Israel would eventually fall into the wrong hands? (January 15, 2013)
... that
Mehmet Gürs , a
Turkish chef of
Scandinavian descent, called his
Istanbul restaurant
Mikla , which is derived from
Miklagard , the
Viking name of the city in the 10th century? (November 15, 2012)
... that as requested in his will, the grave of
Turkish folk singer
Neşet Ertaş was placed at the foot of his father's? (November 14, 2012)
... that in
2007
Özlem Cekic
(pictured) became the first woman of Muslim immigrant background in the
Danish Parliament ? (September 27, 2012)
... that the
Church of Saint Benoit in
Istanbul
(pictured) is the oldest
Roman Catholic church in the city still in use? (August 21, 2012)
... that
Turkish swimmer
Derya Büyükuncu is participating at the
Summer Olympics for the sixth consecutive time? (July 30, 2012)
... that
Hüseyin Özer went from living on the streets of
Ankara to owning a British restaurant chain and teaching at
Middlesex University ? (May 24, 2012)
... that the prices of goods in the
Phrygian city of
Aizanoi were controlled by an
edict of Roman emperor
Diocletian ? (May 18, 2012)
... that
Ottoman architect
Mimar Sinan erected a
Koranic school and an elementary school near the
Ese Kapi Mosque in Istanbul? (May 9, 2012)
... that the
Balaban Aga Mosque in Istanbul, built in the
Byzantine era, was demolished in 1930 because it stood in the way of a new road? (May 8, 2012)
... that the
Toklu Dede Mosque (pictured) in
Istanbul , a former
Byzantine Church, was destroyed with its
frescoes by its owner in 1929? (April 30, 2012)
... that
Istanbul University Professor
Semavi Eyice is regarded as the pioneer of
Byzantine studies in
Turkey ? (April 27, 2012)
... that the remains of the
Bogdan Saray in
Istanbul lie inside a tire shop? (April 13, 2012)
... that before its restoration the
Kasim Ağa Mosque in
Istanbul was used as a
shanty ? (April 7, 2012)
... that the
Roman Catholic
Church of St. Mary Draperis in
Istanbul has been leveled by earthquake, forcibly demolished by the
Ottoman Government , and destroyed three times by fire? (March 24, 2012)
... that the
Grand Bazaar in
Istanbul , one of the largest
covered markets in the world, attracts between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily? (March 19, 2012)
... that
Iznik -tiled
lunette panels believed to have been removed from
Istanbul 's
Piyale Pasha Mosque in the 19th century are currently on display in various museums such as
the Louvre and
the V&A ? (February 21, 2012)
... that the first
uterus transplantation in the world with an organ taken from a cadaver was performed by Dr.
Ömer Özkan and his team at the
Akdeniz University ? (February 8, 2012)
... that although banned in 1943, the
Baklahorani carnival, in
Istanbul , revived after nearly 70 years? (January 19, 2012)
... that
Varda Viaduct
(pictured) , a 98 m (322 ft) high railway viaduct at
Taurus Mountains , will be a shooting location of the next
James Bond movie
Skyfall ? (January 5, 2012)
... that the
Gazi Race , named in honor of
Gazi Mustafa Kemal , the founder of the
Turkish Republic , was won by racehorses owned by succeeding presidents
İsmet İnönü and
Celâl Bayar ? (December 8, 2011)
... that in the 16th century the
Church of St. Mary of Constantinople
(pictured) in
Istanbul was the center of a
quarter mainly inhabited by Italians deported from the city of
Caffa in
Crimea ? (December 4, 2011)
... that the
Florya Atatürk Marine Mansion
(pictured) , built in 1935 as a summer residence for
Turkish president
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , is on the sea about 70 m (230 ft) offshore? (November 14, 2011)
... that the
early Christian
Martyrion of Saints Carpus and Papylus, which is part of the
Church of Saint Menas complex in
Istanbul , currently houses two shops, an iron workshop and a car wash? (October 28, 2011)
... that the
Church of St. George of Samatya in
Istanbul may have been given to the
Armenian community because of the intercession of a favorite of Sultan
Ibrahim ? (October 22, 2011)
... that footballer
Hasan Ahmet Sari left
Istanbul with his family after living through the
1999 İzmit earthquake ? (August 18, 2011)
... that
Suleiman the Magnificent supposedly gave
İncili Çavuş a pearl to wear to distinguish him from other sergeants? (July 9, 2011)
... the
Ionian University of Smyrna , established in Turkey by Greece during the
occupation of Smyrna , was never opened due to latter's defeat in the
Greco-Turkish War ? (June 18, 2011)
... that in the early stages of
World War II the steamer Refah from neutral Turkey
was torpedoed by an unidentified
submarine in the eastern
Mediterranean killing 168 of the 200 people aboard? (May 30, 2011)
... that
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 's
state funeral took place twice, once immediately after his death in 1938 and then again in 1953? (May 1, 2011)
... that the
Ottoman
torpedo boat
Sultanhisar attacked and seriously damaged the
Australian submarine
HMAS AE2 in 1915 but rescued all the crew before the submarine went down in the
Sea of Marmara ? (April 12, 2011)
... that
the largest oil field in Turkey lies near the
city of Batman and the
Batman River ? (March 1, 2011)
... that although the
Nuri Demirağ Nu D.38 transport aircraft was completed in 1941, it was not flown until 1944? (January 24, 2011)
... that the
house in
Tekirdağ ,
Turkey , where
Hungarian national hero
Francis II Rákóczi spent his last years, is a museum now and is regarded as a cultural bridge between the two countries? (January 16, 2011)
... that the
Şeyh Süleyman Mosque in
Istanbul was almost certainly an annex of
Constantinople 's
Monastery of Pantokrator in the
Byzantine Age ? (December 8, 2010)
... that the
Manastır Mosque
(pictured) in
Istanbul is one of the few surviving
Byzantine religious buildings of
Constantinople whose
dedication remains uncertain? (November 9, 2010)
... that even though
Simeon I of Bulgaria burned the
Church of St. Mary of the Spring near the
Byzantine capital
Constantinople , his son
Peter married the daughter of
Romanos I Lekapenos there three years later? (November 6, 2010)
... that a
hydro dam was built by a state agency within the borders of the
Munzur Valley National Park in
Turkey , violating the existing laws for its protection? (October 28, 2010)
... that
Morocco–Turkey relations started as early as the 16th century, with the expansion of the
Ottoman Empire into
Northern Africa ? (October 26, 2010)
... that the
1993 Bayburt Üzengili avalanche in north-eastern
Turkey killed 59 people and 650 livestock, and caused the relocation of the village to a safe zone? (October 20, 2010)
... that the town of
Lice, Turkey , was rebuilt 2 km (1.2 mi) south of its original location after the
earthquake in 1975 , with houses, shops, a school, a bakery and a mosque completed only 54 days later? (October 10, 2010)
... that
Turkish Army 's
Güvercinlik Air Base was the first civil airport of
Ankara that served as such from 1933 until 1955? (October 6, 2010)
... that the broken top of the
Aviation Martyrs' Monument in
Istanbul is to symbolize the incomplete status of the flight missions? (September 21, 2010)
... that, when completed, the
Deriner Dam will be the tallest in
Turkey ? (September 7, 2010)
... that
Ethiopian -born
Meryem Erdoğan , impressed by her countrywoman
Elvan Abeylegesse 's success, illegally immigrated to
Turkey at age 16 in order to become a
distance runner ? (August 18, 2010)
... that the
lighthouse
Rumeli Feneri was built in 1855 in order to provide safe navigation for the
French and
British war ships entering the
Istanbul Strait from
Black Sea during the
Crimean War ? (June 14, 2010)
... that the
1903 Turkey earthquake killed 3,500 humans and 20,000 animals and registered a
magnitude of 7.0? (May 9, 2010)
... that the
Battle of Bapheus in 1302 was the first major
Ottoman victory, and led to their gradual conquest of
Byzantine -controlled
Bithynia ? (April 16, 2010)
... that several families of
land gastropods reach a maximum of biodiversity in Turkey ? (March 3, 2010)
... that the sports hall of
Europe 's largest
prison complex in Istanbul was converted into a courtroom because the existing one was not big enough to accommodate the hearings of the
Ergenekon trial ? (February 11, 2010)
... that
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu , the head of the
Turkish delegation to the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , is also a member of parliament from
Antalya Province ? (January 24, 2010)
... that in 1983,
Yıldırım Aktuna , a
neuropsychiatrist and later a politician, founded
Turkey ’s first
alcohol and
drug rehabilitation center at the country's largest psychiatric hospital in
Istanbul ? (December 31, 2009)
... that the
Battle of Wawon is considered to be
Turkey 's first real combat action since the end of
World War I ? (December 1, 2009)
... that when
Turkey gave out
personal identification numbers to their citizens in 2000, they chose to number all 120 million people born since 1840, living or dead? (November 11, 2009)
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... that female
karateka
Yıldız Aras holds more World, European, and Mediterranean Games champion titles than any other
Turkish sportsperson? (November 8, 2009)
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... that the 1976 crash of
Turkish Airlines Flight 452 , resulting in the death of 154 people, is the all-time worst
aviation accident in
Turkey ? (October 8, 2009)
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... that
Trabzonspor were the first
Turkish soccer team entitled to participate in the
UEFA Women's Champions League ? (September 19, 2009)
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... that a total of 441 military and civilian personnel of the
Turkish
Naval Base Gölcük , among them a
rear admiral , were killed by the
1999 İzmit earthquake ? (August 9, 2009)
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... that the
third officer of the
MV Horizon-1 , a cargo ship recently hijacked by
Somali pirates , is a 24-year old
Turkish woman? (July 27, 2009)
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... that the
mineral
erionite is a
carcinogen , and chronic exposure to this mineral has been linked to excess mortality from
mesothelioma in a number of villages in
Turkey ? (July 22, 2009)
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... that
Fatma Aliye Topuz (1862-1936), whose portrait illustrates the reverse of the current 50
Turkish lira banknote, is credited as the first female
Turkish and
Muslim writer? (May 5, 2009)
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... that
Turkish political parties cancelled their rallies ahead of the
local elections in respect of the death of
Yazıcıoğlu , leader of the
Great Union Party , in the
2009 Medair TC-HEK helicopter crash ? (April 17, 2009)
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... that human rights activist
Ayse Nur Zarakolu , an
Amnesty International "
prisoner of conscience ", was arrested 30 times and jailed four for violating
censorship laws in Turkey ? (March 13, 2009)
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... that
Levantine architect of
French descent
Raymond Charles Père (1854-1929), who designed the
landmark of Izmir (pictured) in
Turkey , was a native of
Izmir ? (February 18, 2009)
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... that according to US and
Turkish officials, the
MV Kısmetim-1 was deliberately sunk in December 1992 by its crew in order to prevent the capture of the
illicit drug load? (February 1, 2009)
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... that
Istanbul Hezarfen Airfield hosts around 30,000 music fans every September for the annual
Rock'n Coke open air
music festival ? (January 20, 2009)
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... that the crash of
Turkish Airlines
Flight 634 on 8 January 2003 was the worst crash involving a
BAe 146 ? (January 4, 2009)
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... that
Turkish female
aviator
Nezihe Viranyalı was educated in
civil aviation at the
University of Tennessee following an invitation by the renowned American pilot
Jacqueline Cochran ? (January 2, 2009)
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... that the
Tigris River 's tributary, the
Botan in southeastern
Turkey , looks during times of peak discharge much bigger than the Tigris? (December 26, 2008)
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... that 14th-century
Turkish
polymath
Al-Taftazani completed one of his best-known works at the age of 16? (December 22, 2008)
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... that after being deposed by his brother
Abdul Hamid II ,
Ottoman sultan
Murad V was detained in the
Malta Pavilion ? (December 16, 2008)
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... that the
Khedive Palace in
Istanbul ,
Turkey , once a mansion for
Ottoman governors, now serves as an upscale restaurant? (December 15, 2008)
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... that during the
Ottoman–Venetian War of 1570–1573 , the 8,500-strong
Venetian garrison of
Famagusta in
Cyprus held out for eleven months against an
Ottoman army of 200,000 men? (December 13, 2008)
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... that the
Esma Sultana Mansion
(pictured) , a multipurpose event venue in
Istanbul ,
Turkey , looks ruined because only its interior was reconstructed after a 1975 fire? (December 1, 2008)
... that the modern border between
Iran and
Iraq dates back to the
Treaty of Zuhab , which concluded the
Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639 ? (November 29, 2008)
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... that
Turkish poet
Süleyman Nazif witnessed first hand the decaying corpses of persecuted Christians in his home town of
Diyarbakır in July 1915? (November 17, 2008)
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... that
Süreyya Opera House in
Istanbul , built in 1927 as a
musical theater but used all the time as a cinema, gained its intended status only in 2007 after redevelopment? (October 30, 2008)
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... that
Sinop Fortress Prison in
Turkey , abandoned in 1997, hosts hundreds of thousands tourists yearly thanks to its featuring in popular
literature , music and film? (October 23, 2008)
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... that
Kazakhstan and
Turkey have sought to promote
closer bilateral relations and foster close ties between
Turkic nations of
Central Asia ? (October 16, 2008)
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... that the
Sultan
Bayezid II Mosque is the oldest surviving
Ottoman imperial
mosque complex in
Istanbul ,
Turkey ? (August 13, 2008)
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... that the
relics housed within the chapel near the
Church of St. Mary of Blachernae in
Istanbul were credited by the
Byzantines for victories against the
Avars ,
Arabs , and
Rus ? (July 15, 2008)
... that the
Montreux Convention of 1936 is an international treaty regulating the
Dardanelles and
Bosporus Straits ? (July 8, 2008)
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... that the
1971 Turkish coup d'état was carried out by a memorandum rather than direct intervention by the military? - June 29, 2008
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... that
Kieran Prendergast was the
British Ambassador to Turkey before serving as
United Nations
Under-Secretary-General for
Political Affairs ? (June 21, 2008)
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... that
Pakistan's ties with Turkey have been influenced by
president
Pervez Musharraf 's admiration for
Turkey 's model of
modernism and secularism ? (June 9, 2008)
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... that Mevlüde Genç, a
Turk living in Germany who had lost five of her family members to
Neo-Nazi violence in the
Solingen arson attack of 1993 , went on to advocate tolerance between Turks and Germans? (June 1, 2008)
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... that in 1876, British barrister, publicist, and historian
Edwin Pears , as correspondent of The Daily News , sent letters home describing
Ottoman atrocities in
Bulgaria during the
April Uprising which aroused popular demonstrations in
England led by
William Gladstone ? (May 18, 2008)
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... that the military prowess of the
Tulunid dynasty of
Arab Egypt was due to its
multi-ethnic army composed of
Turkish ,
Sudanese , and
Greek soldiers? (May 10, 2008)
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... that
Turkey was so dissatisfied with
its first set of stamps that it had
France make the second set
20
para Duloz issue 1865 (example pictured) ? (May 4, 2008)
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...that the oldest known
lemon squeezers were found in
Kütahya ,
Turkey and date to the first quarter of the 18th century? (March 25, 2008)
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...that the
Battle of Shaizar in 1111, between King
Baldwin I of Jerusalem 's
Crusader army and a
Seljuk army led by Mawdud bin Altuntash of
Mosul , ended in a tactical draw? (March 13, 2008)
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...that
Sultanahmet Jail in
Istanbul ,
Turkey , which served mostly as a prison reserved for intellectual
dissidents , is today a
five-star hotel ? (March 6, 2008)
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...that restaurant
Beyti in
Istanbul , famous for its
Beyti kebab , once catered
U.S. president
Richard Nixon 's
Air Force One ? (March 1, 2008)
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...that
Hagia Sophia (pictured) in
Turkey has
runic inscriptions left by
Vikings ? (February 29, 2008)
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...that the
map
(pictured) by
Piri Reis , a 16th century
Islamic cartographer , is the oldest surviving
Turkish map to show the
Americas ? (February 27, 2008)
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...that the
Milion
(pictured) of
Constantinople was the origin of all the roads into the European cities of the
Byzantine Empire ? (February 27, 2008)
...that the award-winning
Turkish restaurant
Changa in
Istanbul is being supervised by the
Kiwi
chef
Peter Gordon ? (February 23, 2008)
...that the
Valens Aqueduct was the major water-providing system of medieval
Constantinople and
Ottoman
Istanbul ? (February 16, 2008)
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...that the world's longest
tunnel system is the two parallel tunnels at the
Atatürk Dam of
Şanlıurfa in
southeastern Turkey ? (February 14, 2008)
...that
Khotyn Fortress
(pictured) , site of the
Battle of Khotyn between the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the
Ottoman Empire in 1621, is one of the
Seven Wonders of Ukraine ? (February 12, 2008)
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...that local
boyars protested against the
Russian annexation of Bessarabia after the
Russo-Turkish War in 1812, arguing that the
Ottoman Empire had no right to cede a
Moldavian territory that was not theirs in the first place? (February 3, 2008)
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...that so far, 350,000 people have been relocated in
Turkey by dam projects carried out by the
State Hydraulic Works , and 250,000 more will be affected in the future? (January 31, 2008)
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...that the
Ottoman frigate
Ertuğrul disaster, which occurred in 1890 off
Kushimoto , led to strengthening foreign relations between
Turkey and
Japan ? (January 16, 2008)
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...that the church of
Hagia Thekla in
Constantinople , now a
mosque , was rebuilt by Emperor
Isaac I Komnenos as thanks for surviving a hunting accident? (January 15, 2008)
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...that the
Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque (pictured) in
Istanbul features a
cypress tree with a chain that was swung between two people who gave contradictory statements to determine which one was telling the truth? (January 14, 2008)
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...that the construction of the
Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial (pictured ), commemorating over 250,000
Turkish soldiers fallen during the
Battle of Gallipoli in
WWI , was completed with nationwide financial contributions? (January 11, 2008)
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...that the site of
Endymion 's cave, where
Selene 's beloved sleeps forever, a
sanctuary on the slopes of
Latmus , still exists in
Aydin Province , southwestern
Turkey ? (January 11, 2008)
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...that the ticket lottery site for the December 2007
Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert featuring
Led Zeppelin , crashed due to over a billion page views of fans seeking to purchase the 20,000 tickets on sale? (January 8, 2008)
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...that
Turkish Prime Minister
Adnan Menderes survived the
1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash almost uninjured, but was executed by hanging a year and a half later? (January 5, 2008)
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...that
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
(pictured) , founder of the
Republic of Turkey , established the first commercial
Turkish winery in
1925 ? (December 20, 2007)
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...that
Muhtar Kent , named to assume the post of
CEO of
the Coca-Cola Company on July 1, 2008, is the son of
a Turkish diplomat , who risked his life to save
Jews in
France during
the Holocaust ? (December 15, 2007)
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...that after the
Fall of Constantinople , the
Ottomans demolished the
Column of Justinian to symbolize their capture of the city? (December 10, 2007)
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...that the
Galatasaray S.K. has origins from the
Ottoman Empire era? (December 4, 2007)
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...that
Turkish serial killer
Özgür Dengiz broke into fits of laughter when discussing his
cannibalism ? (December 1, 2007)
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...that the
Mosque of the Rose in
Istanbul is so named because on the day of the
Fall of Constantinople the building was adorned with garlands of
roses ? (November 27, 2007)
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...that
SantralIstanbul , a modern art museum in
Istanbul ,
Turkey , is located in what was the
first power station of the
Ottoman Empire ? (November 22, 2007)
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...that in
Rose Macaulay 's novel
The Towers of Trebizond (1956) the English traveller Aunt Dot aims to emancipate the women of
Turkey by converting them to
Anglicanism and popularizing the bathing hat? (November 19, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 188
...that the
mosque of Hirami Ahmet Pasha
(pictured) in
Istanbul is the smallest
Byzantine church of
Constantinople still extant? (November 18, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 187
...that the
McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in
Alanya is run by
Georgetown University as the only
independent study program in
Turkey ? (November 12, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 185
...that during the
Italian War of 1542–1546 , the population of
Toulon ,
France was expelled to make room for an
Ottoman naval base ? (November 2, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 183
...that the
Shrapnel Valley Cemetery at
Gallipoli is named after the distinctive sound produced by
shrapnel in the area? (October 13, 2007)
...that the 1955 novel
Teneke by
Turkish author
Yaşar Kemal was adapted into an
Italian
|opera of the same title by
Fabio Vacchi in 2007? (October 8, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 175
...that
Turkish-German professional
boxer
Hülya Şahin , the undefeated junior flyweight world champion, is the only female member of her club Universum? (September 21, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 167
...that
Turkish record label
Kalan Müzik was suspended for a song with the word "
Kurdistan " in it? (September 1, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 166
...that
Hasan Saltık , called "The
Anthropologist of
Folk Music " by
Time magazine, was saved from a three-year jail term because the prosecutor was a fan? (August 31, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 166
...that the
Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships
(pictured) was one of over 3,000 seascapes painted by
Russian artist
Ivan Aivazovsky ? (August 10, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 161
...that the
Romanian crude oil tanker
M/T Independenţa burnt for weeks in 1979 after colliding with a freighter? (August 10, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 161
...that
Wilhelm von Pressel designed the first railroad in
Turkey ? (July 25, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 155
...that the 1621
Battle of Khotyn resulted directly in the death of the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth leader,
hetman
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz , and indirectly in the death of the
Ottoman Empire commander,
sultan
Osman II ? (July 20, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 155
...that the
Mosque of Kefeli in
Istanbul was used jointly as a
church by
Roman Catholic and
Armenian believers before becoming a
mosque ? (July 20, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 155
...that the
Vefa Kilise Mosque
(pictured) in
Istanbul is one of the first examples of
byzantine churches of
Constantinople which were converted into mosques by the
Ottomans ? (July 13, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 154
...that despite being a key building of middle
byzantine Architecture , the
mosque of
Eski Imaret
(pictured) is still one among the least studied monuments of
Istanbul ? (June 28, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 150
...that the award ceremony of
Turkey 's most important
film festival , the
Golden Orange , is held at the
Roman amphitheatre of
Aspendos
(pictured) in
Antalya ? (June 22, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 149
...that the
Xhosa Wars veteran
Stephen Bartlett Lakeman
(pictured) became an
Ottoman
pasha and, late in his life, helped create the
Romanian
National Liberal Party ? (June 5, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 145
...that the
Crusade of Varna required simultaneous attacks on the
Muslim
Ottoman Empire by
Christian
Hungary and the
Muslim
Karamanids , which did not occur? (May 28,2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 144
...that the
mosque of
Kalenderhane
(pictured) in
Istanbul contained the most ancient cycle of
frescoes portraying
Saint Francis of
Assisi still extant? (May 27, 2007)
...that ten days before the ratification of the
Peace of Szeged ,
Vladislaus , King of
Hungary , swore an oath which invalidated it and all future treaties with the
Ottoman Empire ? (May 25, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 143
...that the
Turkish tanbur is one of the four
musical instruments that make up
Turkish classical music 's basic
quartet ? (May 23, 2007)
...that modern
nursing was founded by
Florence Nightingale at the
Selimiye Barracks in
Istanbul ,
Turkey during the
Crimean War (1854-1856)? (May 22, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 142
...that the
Romanian poet
Mehmet Niyazi , a major figure in
Crimean Tatar literature, was expelled from
Crimea three times during his lifetime? (May 20, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 141
...that the land of
Haydarpaşa Cemetery , a burial ground in
Istanbul ,
Turkey for
British Commonwealth soldiers from three wars, belonged to
Suleiman the Magnificent ? (May 16, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 141
...that the
Monument of Liberty in
Istanbul , the gathering place for the second rally of the Republic Protests, is a memorial for the
31 March Incident that took place in 1909? (May 4, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 139
...that the
Declaration to the Seven was the first
British pronouncement to the
Arab states of the former
Ottoman Empire advancing the principle of national
self-determination ? (April 13, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 133
...that the
crown in the
coat of arms of Amsterdam is the
Imperial Crown of Austria ?
...that
yaylag , the
Turkic tradition of moving to highland pastures in the summer, started in the fourth millennium BCE? (April 12, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 133
...that
Alpamysh , an ancient
Turkic
epic or
dastan , is one of the foremost examples of the Turkic oral literature of
Central Asia ? (April 3, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 131
...that it was discovered that about 10,000
Muslim graves in
Cebeci Asri Cemetery ,
Ankara ,
Turkey were not oriented in the direction required by
Islam ? (March 29, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 130
...that the
Balık sisters from
Turkey claim to be the only
identical twins who are both professional
opera singers? (March 22, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 129
...that the
Fenari Isa Mosque
(pictured) in
Istanbul represents one of the first examples of edifices with a
quincuncial plan in
Byzantine architecture ? (March 17, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 128
...that
Karaköy , part of ancient
Galata , and an important commercial and transport center at the
Golden Horn , was the birthplace of
André Chénier , a French poet beheaded during the
French Revolution ? (March 16, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 127
...that
Matild Manukyan , a wealthy
Turkish businesswoman of
Armenian origin, made her fortune as a
brothel owner? (March 14, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 127
...that the
Ottoman Bank , established as a
private bank in 1856, became a
central bank in 1863 and issued
banknotes in the
Ottoman Empire and then
Turkey until 1931? (March 8, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 125
...that
Vakifli is the only ethnic
Armenian village in
Turkey ? (February 26, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 121
...that
Artin Penik , a
Turkish-Armenian ,
set himself on fire in protest of the terrorist attacks against
Turks by the
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)? (February 25, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 121
...that
Bulgarian
Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first
textile factory in the
Ottoman Empire ? (February 2, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 118
...that the
Akhurian River is said to have turned completely red because of a major battle nearby? (January 28, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 118
...that an Egyptian army of 1,500 was defeated by 300 women and old men of
Diro during the
Egyptian Invasion of Mani in
1826 ? (January 22, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 117
...that the first three Ministers of the Privy Treasury of the
Ottoman Empire were Armenian, the first being
Hagop Kazazian Pasha ? (January 13, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 116
...that
Baghdad Street in
Istanbul was named by
Murad IV to commemorate his conquest of
Mesopotamia ? (January 12, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 116
...that the
Mecelle , the
Ottoman
civil code of 1877, was the first attempt to
codify part of the laws of an
Islamic state? (January 7, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 115
...that
Trdat the Architect reconstructed the dome of the
Hagia Sophia in
989 and built the
Cathedral of Ani ? (January 6, 2007)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 115
...that although 99.8% of the population is
Muslim , there is no official
religion in Turkey ? (December 18, 2006)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 111
...that the
Rhodes blood libel — the accusation that the
Jews of
Rhodes
ritually murdered a
Christian boy in 1840 — enjoyed active support from the
consuls of several
European countries? (October 31, 2006)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 97
...that the British
Levant Company avoided a fatal mistake of other
chartered companies by paying their
consuls and
ambassadors a
pension , so that they would not impose taxes on merchants for personal gain? (June 18, 2006)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 72
...that the prosecution of writer and poet
Perihan Magden for urging defiance of mandatory military service has complicated
Turkey 's negotiations for membership in the
European Union ? (June 11, 2006)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 71
...that in
the Night Attack skirmish,
Vlad III Dracula is said to have been "one of the first European crusaders to use gunpowder in a deadly artistic way"? (April 26, 2006)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 63
...that the
Senyavin Islands of
Micronesia were
named after
Dmitry Senyavin , who destroyed the
Ottoman fleet in the
Battle of Athos in
1807 ? (April 22, 2006)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 63
...that the
Ancient Greeks credited
Broteas , the ugly son of
Tantalus , with an ancient rock-cut cliff-face carving of the
Great Mother of the Gods in modern
Turkey ? (March 13, 2006)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 57
...that the
Cossack
Hetman and the later
Muscovite
voyevoda
Petro Doroshenko signed a treaty with
Sultan
Mehmed IV recognizing the
Cossack Hetmanate as a
vassal of the
Ottoman Empire ? (March 8, 2006)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 56
...that
the Hood Event was an incident following the
US invasion of Iraq where a group of
Turkish
special forces operating in
northern Iraq was captured and interrogated by the
US military , later becoming the basis for the
2006 film
Valley of the Wolves Iraq ? (February 24, 2006)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 55
...that during the
Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829 more Russian soldiers died in hospitals from
contagious diseases than fighting on the battlefield? (February 1, 2006)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 51
...that as many as 150 people a year attempt to commit
suicide by jumping from either the
Bosporus Bridge or
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in
Turkey ? (September 6, 2004)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 14
...that the
Turkish military coup of 1971 is known as a
coup by memorandum ? (August 10, 2004)
Wikipedia:Recent additions 13