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Azerbaijan Desecrates Armenian Cultural and Religious Heritage
Since Azerbaijan’s aggressive war against Artsakh in 2020, considerable damage has deliberately been caused by the government of Azerbaijan
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The conference before the storm: Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2019
Looking back on the last pre-Covid International Medieval Congress seems like a different world by now, even though we’ve but recently had the 2022
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The Mysterious 9000-Years-Old Painted Skeletons of Turkey
The neolithic city of Çatalhöyük, in what was Anatolia or Asia Minor and now Turkey, is considered to be the oldest known city in the world,
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From Europe to Asia in six minutes: All you need to know about the record-breaking bridge
Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated the $2.8-billion 1915 Canakkale Bridge, which will connect the northwestern province of
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How Ankara Became Turkish: Excavating the Legacies of Cosmopolitanism Buried in Turkey’s Capital
The following is a guest post by Kenan Cruz Çilli, a Turkish/Portuguese writer and researcher. His interests include cultural heritage and minority
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Turkish Rugs: A Guide to the Patterns and History of These East-Meets-West Carpets
New York–based interior designer Sara Bengur used a colorful Turkish kilim rug in her own living room. Photo by Peter Murdock They’ve adorned the
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Prelapsarian Paradise: Nature Will Triumph.
{source} The beads of salt water caught the sun and burned incandescently on the deck before scattering like comets when the ferry rocked. The
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Escape by Sea: Shape of Salvation in Watercolor Tones.
{source} I had forgotten how erotic it was, the dance of it. The flame, the sound of the flint, that sustained hiss as the spark found sea-air to
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The History of Zionism’s Attempts to Deny the Armenian Holocaust
How the Israeli State Did Its Best to Destroy an Academic Conference which included the Armenian GenocideFor Zionism the Jewish holocaust is a
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Attis, the reborn eunuch consort of Cybele (Magna Mater)
An Attis cult began around 1250 BCE in Dindymon (today's Murat Dağı of Gediz, Kütahya, Turkey). He was originally a local semi-deity of Phrygia
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Ajam Podcast #26: Rüya with Murat Keyder
To download the episode, subscribe to us in the iTunes store, Spotify Podcasts, and Google Play. In this episode, Kamyar is joined by Murat
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Legendary Turkish-Swiss Rock Band Café Türk to Release Compilation Album
Café Türk, an inimitable Turkish-Swiss band formed in the 1980s, will release a compilation album in November. Café Türk’s trajectory
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The Sonic Craft of Granî: The Evolution of Turbocharged, Transnational Kurdish Music
The following article is written by George Murer, an ethnomusicologist and filmmaker with interests in Iran, Kurdistan, Central Asia, and the Indian
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Constantinople (Not Istanbul)
2,052 words One fascinating conundrum I have been dealing with for years juxtaposes Istanbul/Constantinople the city with “Istanbul (Not
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6000 years before Stonehenge, there was Göbekli Tepe. New hidden patterns found
Believed to be the oldest known temple, and where modern agriculture first began. The sprawling 11,500-year-old stone Göbekli Tepe complex in