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Turkish Literary Delights

Wolfdog — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:52:25 -0800

A Mid-summer Night's Story - one of hundreds of novels, poems, and tales in English translation at Suat Karantay's Contemporary Turkish Literature pages. Also: Turkish Poetry in Translation (the side-by-side translations of Dağlarca are particularly well-done), and selected stories of childhood & youth from Turkish authors in the mid 20th century.

1657 Ralamb Costume Book

mediareport — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:22:06 -0800

The Rålamb Costume Book. Illustrations of Turkish officials, various important occupations and just plain folks, obtained by Claes Rålamb, Swedish ambassador to the Ottoman Court, in 1657. More about Rålamb and Sultan Mehmet IV.

Turkish Star Trek - Now with Video

jonson — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:23:19 -0800

Turkish Star Trek. For some reason, there's a one off Turkish cover version of The Man Trap, that old episode of ST:TOS with the salt monster that leeches saline from your body with its fingertips. And while it's been mentioned before, that was years ago, before the actual episode could be found on YouTube.

The Evil Spider mEn!

Elim — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:12:30 -0800

Spiderman as a villian! Just to keep the trend for the day going.. (Via I-mockery by way of Fark)

Turkish Star Trek

feelinglistless — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:47:29 -0800

Turkish Star Trek [via Boing Boing]

jnthnjng — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:28:53 -0800

In college, I had an Turkish Electrical Engineering professor who used to open every class period with a story about Hoja (or Hoca, spelled the Turkish way), the bumbling yet clever 'folk philosopher'. He is known throughout the middle east also as Mulla Nasrudin and people from Azerbaijan to North Africa claim him as their own. Here are a few collections of stories about this 'comic sage': The definitive Hoja resource, a geocities site, Turkish Trickster, This reminds me of a story..., turkish humor. Enjoy!

lia — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 00:41:31 -0800

Fatima Polattas filed charges against Turkish police for raping her while she was in their custody; she's now facing charges for insulting the security forces and her country's moral integrity for talking about what happened to her, and could spend up to six years behind bars. This is easily the most disturbing thing I've read all day.