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1962 Turkish Airlines Taurus Mountains crash

The 1962 Turkish Airlines Taurus Mountains crash occurred on 8 March 1962 at 17:43 local time (15:43 UTC) when a Turkish Airlines Fairchild F-27 airliner, registration TC-KOP, on a scheduled domestic flight from Esenboğa Airport (ESB/LTAC) in Ankara to Adana Airport (ADA/LTAF), flew into the Bolkar Mountains on approach to landing.

2010–11 Galatasaray SK Wheelchair Basketball Season

Galatasaray SK Wheelchair Basketball 2010–2011 season is the 20102011 basketball season for Turkish professional basketball club Galatasaray SK.

Abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate

On November 1, 1922, the nationalist Grand National Assembly declared that the Sultanate's Constantinople government was no longer the legal Turkish government, appointing the nationalist body in Ankara to that place.

Akdeniz University

Azize Tanrıkulu (born 1986), 2008 Olympic silver medalist and European champion Turkish female taekwondo athlete

Alexander Kazarsky

Kazarsky was the captain of brig Mercury and became famous after the victory in the battle against two Turkish ships of the line.

Ali Abdolrezaei

Ali Abdolrezaei's poems have been translated into a variety of languages including English, German, French, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Croatian and Urdu.

Ali Rıza Binboğa

His first public appearance as a singer was in Turkish under contest for Eurovision Song Contest 1975.

Anadolu Kartalları

The film, commissioned for the centenary of the Turkish Air Force, was filmed in collaboration with the Turkish Air Force in the air base in Konya.

Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association

As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Aytekin

Deniz Aytekin (born 1978), German football referee of Turkish descent

Battle of Bir el Abd

Then early the next day a New Zealand patrol reported the Turkish had evacuated the position and were at Salama.

Battle of Pentemili beachhead

On the Greek side, the National Guard's High Command had noticed the inability of the 3rd Tactical Group (responsible for Kyrenia sector) to coordinate its forces and eliminate the Turkish beachhead, and gave the command of all Greek forces west and east of the beachhead to Colonel Kobokis (commander of the Greek-Cypriot Special Forces).

Battle of Tellidede

On 25 June, the Greek troops attacked the Turkish forces, who were located at the Ovaemir-Yeniköy-Kadıköy line.

Çağlar

Reşat Çağlar, diplomat from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Çağrı

Çağrı Katre Türkay (born 1987), Turkish model, actress and television hostess

Chanak Crisis

The Chanak Crisis, also called the Chanak Affair and the Chanak Incident, in September 1922 was the threatened attack by Turkish troops on British and French troops stationed near Çanakkale (Chanak) to guard the Dardanelles neutral zone.

Collège du Léman

Mustafa Sandal, popular Turkish pop music singer, record producer, businessman, and occasional actor.

Colorado Ranger

The original foundation ancestors of the Colorado Ranger were two stallions brought to the United States and given to US president Ulysses S. Grant by the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1878.

Demirören Group

Its properties include Milangaz (a liquefied petroleum gas distributor with 15% of the Turkish market), the Demirören İstiklal shopping mall in Beyoğlu, and the Milliyet and Vatan newspapers.

Embassy of Turkey, Berlin

On October 30, 2012, a new embassy building, constructed on the site of the destroyed building, was opened with a ceremony attended by high ranked politicians such as the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoğlu, Minister for the European Union Egemen Bağış and Foreign Minister of Germany Guido Westerwelle as well as some 1,500 guests.

Ernst Starhemberg

Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638–1701), army commander of Vienna during the second siege of Vienna, imperial general during the Great Turkish War and President of the Hofkriegsrat

Ferhad Shakely

In 1992, he published Kurdish nationalism in Mam and Zin of Ahmad Khani, a literary history that was translated into Swedish, Turkish and Arabic.

Gillis Valckenier

William Temple wrote in as Observations upon the United Provinces: The Turkish sultan was not as powerful in his country, than Valckenier in Amsterdam, (dressing and behaving like a shopkeeper).

Gœrlingen

In 1314 Gœrlingen was listed among the assets of the Abbey of Lixheim, but by 1542, when fears of a further Turkish attack on Vienna prompted a general census of assets in the empire, Gœrlingen had disappeared from the Lixheim records.

Gökhan Özoğuz

Gökhan Özoğuz is one of the four jury members in the third season of the reality television singing competition O Ses Türkiye aired by Star TV, the Turkish version of the television show Voice.

Hakobyan

V. H. Hagopian, professor of Ottoman Turkish and Persian in Anatolia College.

Harun Tekin

Sami Harun Tekin (born 28 June 1977 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish singer, musician, and poet.

Hikmet

Hikmet Temel Akarsu, Turkish novelist, short-story writer, satirist and play writer

Ibrahim Sirkeci

He authored several books including Cultures of Migration published by University of Texas Press in 2011, and The Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of Turkish Kurds to Germany, was published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2006.

İsmail Bilen

İsmail Bilen (1902 in Çinçiva village, Vija, Ottoman Empire – November 18, 1983 in East Berlin, GDR) was a Turkish politician.

Ispahsalar

The Mongol conquests diminished the use of the title, bringing to the fore Turkish and Mongol ones instead, but it remained in widespread use in the isolated and conservative regions of Gilan and Daylam on the Caspian shore.

Ivan Mikhailovich Viskovatyi

Viskovatiy was accused of his alleged intentions to give Novgorod to the Polish king and Astrakhan and Kazan to the Turkish sultan.

Julius Oppert

In 1855, he published Écriture Anarienne, advancing the theory that the language spoken originally in Assyria was Turanian (related to Turkish and Mongolian), rather than Aryan or Semitic in origin, and that its speakers had invented the cuneiform writing system.

Kalan Müzik

It was named after the pre-1936 name of the town of Tunceli (its founder's birthplace), but also means "Surviving Music" in Turkish.

Kâni Karaca

He came to Istanbul in 1950 and worked with Sadettin Kaynak, a major composer and performer of Turkish music at the time.

Kaymaklı Monastery

He confirmed the monastery's possession of its lands, and the place came to be called in Turkish Kaymaklı, meaning "with/of kaymak", in memory of the occasion.

King Size Terror

Later Karakan became part of the first successful project of Turkish Hip Hop: Cartel.

Louroujina Salient

In 1974, this village was secured so as to be placed within a contiguous Turkish Cypriot zone, which later became in 1975, the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus, then in 1983, the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).

Marija Omaljev-Grbić

She played in Moliere, Gogol, Sidran, Popovic and Pervan and started to act in many Bosnian and Croatian most popular Prime time TV Series and Sitcoms as well as in Croatian, Bosnian, German, Austrian and Turkish movies.

Martin Berberyan

Because Berberyan became a European Champion at the competition, the Armenian national anthem, Mer Hayrenik, was played in the Turkish capital on that day.

Mirsad Türkcan

His sister Emina Jahović (known as Emina Sandal in Turkey) is a famous pop singer in southeastern Europe and the wife of a famous Turkish singer, Mustafa Sandal.

Murray Davidson

In 2012-13 season, with St. Johnstone qualified for Europa League, thanks to Hearts, Davidson captained his first match, playing in Europe, in the second round of the Europa League against Turkish side Eskişehirspor, but they proved to be too strong and failed to win either legs losing 2-0 and drawing 1-1 respectively.

Ozan Papaker

Ozan Papaker (born 10 July 1996) is a Turkish footballer who plays as a forward Turkish Second League side Ofspor on loan from Çaykur Rizespor in the Turkish Süper Lig.

Parthenopean Republic

Ruffo indignantly declared that once the treaty was signed, not only by himself but by the Russian and Turkish commandants and by the British Captain Edward Foote, it must be respected, and on Nelson’s refusal he said that he would not help him to capture the castles.

Radio Bulgaria

In 2004, Radio Bulgaria broadcasts to Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America on short and medium wave in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian and Turkish.

Recep Altepe

Recep Altepe, (born 1959, Bursa, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and the current mayor of Bursa.

Salih Memecan

Salih Memecan (September 2, 1952 - Giresun) is a Turkish editorial caricaturist and cartoonist.

Şanlıurfa Province

MHP, campaigning on Turkish-identity consciousness arguments, after having scored an exceptional 7,18% in 1999, has in 2004 ebbed back to a more usual 2,97%.

Souleymane Youla

After again a season where he did not receive much opportunities, he was loaned out back to Turkish side Eskişehirspor where he partnered up with Ümit Karan.

Thymaria, Evros

The village of Thymaria was established in 1921 by Greek refugees from a village on the Turkish side of the river Evros named Çiftlikköy.


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