Turkish cuisine is renowned as one of the world’s best. It is considered to be one of the three main cuisines of the world because of the variety of its recipes, its use of natural ingredients, its flavours and tastes that appeal to all palates and its influence throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East and [...]
LITERATURE Haldun TANER Literature has long been an important component of Turkish cultural life, reflecting the history of the people, their legends, their mysticism, and the political and social changes that affected this land throughout its long history. The oldest literary legacy of the pre-Islamic period are the Orhon inscriptions in northern Mongolia, written in [...]
Turkish Culture & Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay said on Friday that “Japan Year 2010 in Turkey” would contribute to universal world peace. “2010 Japan Year in Turkey” will take place to mark 120th anniversary of Turkish-Japanese relations. Speaking at a meeting organized to promote the activities that would take place within the scope of “2010 [...]
Before the Byzantine Empire Excavations conducted at Yarımburgaz cave have uncovered evidence of human culture in the region of Küçükçekmece Lake. Collective inhabitation of Istanbul, which would later become one of the most crowded cities in the world, dates back to the Sixth Millennium B.C.E. These societies inhabited caves on both the European and Anatolian [...]
Two meters under the narrow streets of Bodrum lies 5000 years of history. A few monuments attest to this history: the castle, the Roman Theatre, the Gate and the Mausoleum Myndus. The city was captured by the Lydians in the first half of the 6th century BC and then by the Persians in 546 BC [...]
