THE MILITARIZATION OF YOUTH IN SCHOOLS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN EARLY REPUBLIC ERA
14 Ocak 2020PART I The Early Republic era was filled up with reforms and developments. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk who is the leader of the Turkish Republic and reforms, in order to set up and preserve reforms and new state structure, used military power and army efficiently. The military was not only a place where force was used…
Poverty
27 Ekim 2019Poverty It means ınability to meet people’s needs. We can define poverty in two ways, narrow and broad. In the narrow sense, poverty refers to the situation of facing hunger and lack of shelter, whereas in the broad sense poverty means that the needs such as food, clothing and shelter are sufficient to sustain life…
OPERATION PEACE SPRING and LAWFULNESS
24 Ekim 2019Turkey is making extremely comprehensive and successful operations in recent years for the purpose of national security and regional peace. That’s why Turkey is on the world agenda. Operation Peace Spring is the last of these operations. Turkey against YPG-PYD / SDF launched a cross-border operation into northern Syria in order to contribute to regional…
DREAMS OF THE YOUTH ARE OUR FUTURE
7 Eylül 2019As whole country, we are able to manage to live without dreaming. Our history is full of struggles and wars which were made for those dreams to come true. We have forgotten we can’t reach our dreams, unless we run after them. In the world, when we look at countries or successful people, we see that they had run after their dreams and then they made them come true with true decisions. For example, when the old president of USA, John F. Kennedy, told that they were planning to send a spacecraft into space, everyone said it was a dream, but they didn’t know that it should be dreamed of. Then, 7 years later, USA sent a spacecraft into space, and we witnessed, dream came true, before the time it was planned to be. As we can add new examples like this, we should start the job by dreaming to create a new example. To carry that aim into our future, youth —…
Breakpoint of a war, Cavalries.
5 Eylül 2019For thousands of years, the influence of the Turkish cavalry in the wars that Turks entered has been great.We all familiar to the history of Major Assault at 26 August, but do we know the effect of Cavalries to the war ? Please follow and like us:
THE STORY OF A VICTORY: SEPTEMBER 2
2 Eylül 2019Today’s Eskişehir province was known in the Ancient and Middle Ages with the Greek name Dorylaion and Latin Dorylaeum. Dorylaion was a Phrygian city, rich in trade, famous for its hot springs at the junction of major roads in ancient sources. Dorylaion – Sharhoyuk played a major role in the protection of Byzantium against the…
The Month of Glory and Victory: August
30 Ağustos 2019The Turkish history is full of glorious days. Every day and every year in the history of Turks has something to celebrate, but one month, August, has more to say about the Turkish history more than all other. The Turkish presence in Anatolia goes back to the mid 1060’s. After Sultan Alparslan gave the permission…
Iğdır
29 Ağustos 2019Iğdır is located in the Eastern Anatolia region where high plateaus and mountainous areas are located. It also has Mount Ağrı which the highest mountain in turkey. 65% of the mountain, which is 5137 meters in height, is in Iğdır province and the remaining 35% is in Ağrı. The city consists of 3 towns and…
Commeration to Haluk Dursun
21 Ağustos 2019COMMERATION TO HALUK DURSUN We lost an important historian, a valuable academician, a very good person and lastly our Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism last day. My words will not be enough to tell his life because he fit many good jobs into his life, but I will try to tell his story.…
Chieftain’s homecoming
19 Ağustos 2019Military officers who staged the coup in 1960 were separated into 2 groups. The first group was thinking that abdicating and letting Ismet Pasha take command. Cemal Madanoglu was the actual leader of this group. The second group was thinking that if a revolution happens in the country, the Republican People’s Party is as guilty…
Similarities of German State Before Hitler and Today’s Turkey
14 Ağustos 2019Humanity finally found its highest ideas: Democracy. (!) Although democracy was easy to find for ancient Greeks, it was a different form from today, some people claimed that we found the highest regime of humanity, without any shame. Maybe, the idea of equality or freedom or believing that they have freedom of choice or other…
Turkey-EU History
23 Temmuz 2019DELIBERATIONS BETWEEN TURKEY AND EU Since its establishment, The Republic of Turkey has always taken steps to reach the level of contemporary civilization. That’s why, bilateral relations with European Union is so important. In this direction, Turkey applied for a association to Europe Economic Community (EEC), which was established in 1958 and was characterized as…
The Bronze Hand of the Turks:Tunceli
3 Haziran 2019Before starting my words, it is good to remember an article in the Constitution of Turkey. “ The State of Turkey, with its territory and nation, is an indivisible entity. Its language is Turkish.” (Article 3) There are two important points in these sentences. The first one is “indivisibility of the state” and the second…
What Was The “Turk” Throughout History?
30 Mayıs 2019Where does the “Turk(ish)” name come from? Türk… In the historical papers of Chinese and Roman people, Turkish people called with this name. In B.C. 3rd centuries, it has been claimed that there was a crowded and strong tribe living in Hun Empire. Once they took the sovereignty and established Göktürk Empire, the Turk…
The Story of Kursad and his 40 Soldiers
30 Mayıs 2019The first independency warrior of the Turks, Kursad was walking in the Chinese Palace at 639. At the year of A.D. 639, the Turks were experiencing their darkest age when China had invaded their lands and the first state of the Turks which used the name “Turk” in the name of the state. At 630…