I will introduce you Semih Sayginer, Turkish legendary billiards player who had won 25 times Turkish Grand Prix Championships and several World Championships and tournaments. One of them is by beating another legend, World Champion Ceulemans 3-0 in Germany in 1994. Unbeatable master of trick shots. Inventor of 40 authentic shots which became a [...]
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The Basilica Cistern of Istanbul : Ancient Dark Wet Mysterious
Posted by admin on August 20th, 2008
Did you know that Istanbul is a city of underground cisterns? There are hundreds of them beneath Istanbul. Yerebatan Sarnici (The Basilica Cistern in English) is one of the largest cistern in the world and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Istanbul. This facility, preserved up to the present day, was built in [...]
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2 Comments »Long Donkey (Uzun Essek) Traditional Turkish Game
Posted by admin on August 20th, 2008
Well you can wonder what these boys are doing in such position. Don’t have evil ideas instantly Actually it is an entertaining traditional Turkish game played in two teams. There are donkey team and jumpers team. Jumpers try to crash the donkey line by jumping on them. If they become successful they get [...]
Posted in Editor's Choice, Interesting, Turkey Photos, Turkey Videos Tags: games, traditions 6 Comments »The Battle of Gallipoli : Hell !
Posted by admin on August 20th, 2008
Well, I wanted to write interesting and important things about one of the bloodiest wars of all times, The Battle of Gallipoli took place on the Anatolian land called Gallipoli (Canakkale in Turkish) in 1915, during the First World War. Can you imagine the terror of that war? Even, the bullets were crashing each other [...]
The Black Book of Istanbul
Posted by admin on August 20th, 2008
There are two words to tell this novel written by nobel-prize winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. Dark and Powerful!
The Black Book starts with the short flashbacks of the boy,through his childhood and the story slides mysteriously in the dark shades of his memories in istanbul,the darkest city ever in a book told.The whole story [...]
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