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brother
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This is a site where you can download a complete book about "Who are the Turks" and makes for fascinating reading.
A curriculum guide aimed at understanding the state of Turkey---its history, its evolution, its culture and its literature.
Some material appeared in the original 1992 edition, but much has been revised and updated. Excellent photographs and illustrations. Extensive history and literature lesson plans.
The publication of this book and its availability for free download were underwritten by:
The Istanbul Chamber of Commerce
The Istanbul Chamber of Industry
The Istanbul and Marmara, Aegean, Mediterranean and Black Sea Chamber of Shipping
The Istanbul Commodity Exchange.
http://www.ataturk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=62
Caution: The file size is 45 Megabytes and might take a while to download depending on your speed of Internet connection. This file is in PDF format.
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Xenos 2Fan
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Thank you my excellent brother!  Everyone please read and learn well. I will be administering the exams at a later date to be announced.  |
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cypezokyli
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brother
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Welcome people but i really hope many members have bothered to download it and are actually reading and learning.  |
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Khan
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| Yes i've downloaded, very informative. |
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Xenos 2Fan
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| brother wrote: |
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Welcome people but i really hope many members have bothered to download it and are actually reading and learning. |
Evet Hocam bende.
Yes my teacher, I too.  |
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brother
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| Xenos 2Fan wrote: |
| brother wrote: |
| cypezokyli wrote: |
| thanks bro. |
Welcome people but i really hope many members have bothered to download it and are actually reading and learning. |
Evet Hocam bende.
Yes my teacher, I too. |
Aferim cocugum.
Well done kid. |
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Xenos 2Fan
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Xenos 2Fan
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I find this extremely interesting. Is it coincidence or do Turks have some kind of a tie with the Norse / vikings? Or did the Vikings travel so far into Asia that they were able to contact Turkic people. Look at the striking similarities between runic and ancient turkic script.
http://www.antalyaonline.net/futhark/FUTHP5E.HTM |
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cypezokyli
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| Welcome people but i really hope many members have bothered to download it and are actually reading and learning. Smile |
well not read it yet, i just read the intro.
but the first pictures were:
1. instabul is simply beautiful. i simply have to go there once
2. beautiful scenery
3. the turks are brake dancers???!!!!
to be honest i hope for both greeks and turks that we dont become brakedancers. |
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thebrix
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| brother wrote: |
This is a site where you can download a complete book about "Who are the Turks" and makes for fascinating reading.
A curriculum guide aimed at understanding the state of Turkey---its history, its evolution, its culture and its literature. |
Excellent. Thank you!
There are too many forgotten empires and too much banging on about Hitler and Stalin, who must now be biographised and analysed to death; I am starting to read up about the Austro-Hungarian Empire. (The trigger was a collection of Gustav Mahler's letters which made me realise I had not the faintest idea about the milieu in which the composer lived and worked). |
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thebrix
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| Xenos 2Fan wrote: |
I find this extremely interesting. Is it coincidence or do Turks have some kind of a tie with the Norse / vikings? Or did the Vikings travel so far into Asia that they were able to contact Turkic people. Look at the striking similarities between runic and ancient turkic script.
http://www.antalyaonline.net/futhark/FUTHP5E.HTM |
A lot of discussion about early language IMO is the purest speculation; Nostratic is a good example. (The whole tower of Babel of Indo-European languages resting on a foundation for which there is no direct evidence ...)
But I see no reason why they should not have. After all, Swedish troops made it all the way to Southern Russia in the early 1700s!
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cannedmoose
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| Xenos 2Fan wrote: |
I find this extremely interesting. Is it coincidence or do Turks have some kind of a tie with the Norse / vikings? Or did the Vikings travel so far into Asia that they were able to contact Turkic people. Look at the striking similarities between runic and ancient turkic script.
http://www.antalyaonline.net/futhark/FUTHP5E.HTM |
I'm not quite sure how far the Vikings went, but they certainly journeyed through what is now Ukraine and western Russia, navigating the Dnieper and arriving in the Black Sea, so it is very likely that they interacted with Turkic peoples either in northern Turkey or on the eastern shores of the Black Sea. |
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Khan
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| Someone once told me Finnish is related to the Turkish family of languages. I once told a Finnish girl this, and she said "no, our closest language is Hungarian". Which is funny since Hungarian is also related to Turkish in some way. |
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well, as far as I know Finnish and Hungarin are related to each other, but to no other language.
Of course historical somewhen they derived from some other lingo, but nower days there is nothing related anymore. |
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