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Xfire users from Turkey
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Members
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Online
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Playing Games
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♥ ♥ ♥ TURKS ARE FLYİNG ♥ ♥ ♥
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Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer | 6 hours | 938 hours |
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Multiplayer | 46 hours | 5,532 hours |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer | - | 158 hours |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops MP | - | 140 hours |
Turkish proverbs
Oral tradition continues with proverbs. Considering daily life, proverbs embody the deepest feelings and beliefs of the Turkish people. They reveal a nation's character in its finest details.
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Acıkan doymam (sanır), susayan kanmam sanır.
Literal translation: A hungry man thinks he won't be satiated, a thirsty man thinks he won't be quenched.
Acele işe şeytan karışır.
Literal translation: The Devil interferes with hurried work.
Meaning: If you hurry your work it will turn out wrong.
Aç tavuk kendini buğday ambarında görür.
Literal translation: A hungry hen sees herself in a wheat silo.
Meaning: When one is in need of something, he dreams about himself having it lavishly.
Aç ayı oynamaz.
Literal translation: A hungry bear won't dance.
Meaning: One needs to be paid to do some work.
Açın halini tok bilmez, hastanın halini sağ bilmez.
Literal translation: A satiated man doesn't know what's...
Oral tradition continues with proverbs. Considering daily life, proverbs embody the deepest feelings and beliefs of the Turkish people. They reveal a nation's character in its finest details.
A
Acıkan doymam (sanır), susayan kanmam sanır.
Literal translation: A hungry man thinks he won't be satiated, a thirsty man thinks he won't be quenched.
Acele işe şeytan karışır.
Literal translation: The Devil interferes with hurried work.
Meaning: If you hurry your work it will turn out wrong.
Aç tavuk kendini buğday ambarında görür.
Literal translation: A hungry hen sees herself in a wheat silo.
Meaning: When one is in need of something, he dreams about himself having it lavishly.
Aç ayı oynamaz.
Literal translation: A hungry bear won't dance.
Meaning: One needs to be paid to do some work.
Açın halini tok bilmez, hastanın halini sağ bilmez.
Literal translation: A satiated man doesn't know what's...
Turkish Folklore
Turkey has very rich folkloric traditions which have been kept alive for centuries due to the characteristics of Turkish people. Folk music accompanies Anatolian people every single moment of their lives. Every individual creates his own folk music suitable for his own situation. People create their own music, and do not write it down, but pass it from one to the other, and the "asiklar" (troubadours) who sing and play this music keep it alive.
Minstrel Literature
Minstrel is a kind of poet seen in the Turkish Folk Literature since the beginning of 11th Century. It is believed that minstrel takes his quality of poet by drinking the “love wine” served by the sage in his dream and by seeing the “image of his lover”. The minstrel candidate generally sees a lover or a saz (a folkloric musical instrument) in his dream. The ornament of the dream is a dervish with white beard and sometimes one sometimes three full glasses. The glass can be usually seen as a bowl in the dream. The liquids in...
Turkey has very rich folkloric traditions which have been kept alive for centuries due to the characteristics of Turkish people. Folk music accompanies Anatolian people every single moment of their lives. Every individual creates his own folk music suitable for his own situation. People create their own music, and do not write it down, but pass it from one to the other, and the "asiklar" (troubadours) who sing and play this music keep it alive.
Minstrel Literature
Minstrel is a kind of poet seen in the Turkish Folk Literature since the beginning of 11th Century. It is believed that minstrel takes his quality of poet by drinking the “love wine” served by the sage in his dream and by seeing the “image of his lover”. The minstrel candidate generally sees a lover or a saz (a folkloric musical instrument) in his dream. The ornament of the dream is a dervish with white beard and sometimes one sometimes three full glasses. The glass can be usually seen as a bowl in the dream. The liquids in...
Turkey & Russia
New Era in Turkey-Russia Relations ;
Turkey, Russia to lift visa requirement
Between countries that do not apply a visa to Turkey to be added to Russia. U.S. and Russia to apply a visa to EU countries, starting today, for the Turks to launch visa-free period. 12 May 2010, the citizens of the Republic of Turkey signed in Ankara with the Russian Federation on the mutual agreement procedures for travel, will enter into force as of today.
40 BILLION DOLLARS INCREASE
visa-free period between the two countries, both to trade, both contracting services, and expected positive impacts of tourism. Russia and Turkey last year, 26.2 billion dollars in the foreign trade volume, within 1 year of the abolition of visas is expected to reach 40 billion dollars. Application in the number of Russian tourists coming to Turkey this year, 3 million 4 million, 300 thousand 500 thousand and the number of Turks from Turkey to Russia is expected to go. Under the agreement the two countries' citizens not exceeding 30...
New Era in Turkey-Russia Relations ;
Turkey, Russia to lift visa requirement
Between countries that do not apply a visa to Turkey to be added to Russia. U.S. and Russia to apply a visa to EU countries, starting today, for the Turks to launch visa-free period. 12 May 2010, the citizens of the Republic of Turkey signed in Ankara with the Russian Federation on the mutual agreement procedures for travel, will enter into force as of today.
40 BILLION DOLLARS INCREASE
visa-free period between the two countries, both to trade, both contracting services, and expected positive impacts of tourism. Russia and Turkey last year, 26.2 billion dollars in the foreign trade volume, within 1 year of the abolition of visas is expected to reach 40 billion dollars. Application in the number of Russian tourists coming to Turkey this year, 3 million 4 million, 300 thousand 500 thousand and the number of Turks from Turkey to Russia is expected to go. Under the agreement the two countries' citizens not exceeding 30...
