There are two words to tell this novel written by nobel-prize winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. Dark and Powerful!
The Black Book
city,the author tries to immaculate the readers and he achieves. This book requires effort, but it is worth every bit of it.
I especially like the pages where it is told what would we see under if there would be no water in Bosphorus sea and the crazy parts with the old Ottoman head executioner.
First of all, these films were produced by serious intentions and considered great at that times (70s) in Turkey, but the results are really funny and pathetic according to our 2000s mind. If you watch them until the end, possibly you will want to commit suicide or to make some weird things. Click on thumbnails to watch them.
Turkish Superman |
Fearless – Turkish Rambo |
Turkish Batman & Robin with 007 Music |
Turkish Star Wars |
Turkish Wizard of Oz |
Turkish Exorcist |
Turkish Star Trek |
Turkish Spiderman is evil |
The cartoon drawing that you see near is an imaginary scene from Bashi-baozuks attacking to enemy without any clothes by famous Turkish caricaturist Bahadir Boysal.
There is a legend that Ottoman army put crazy people on to the horses naked and sent them fiercely to enemy army. The enemies couldn’t understand what the hell these strange looking, shouting horde coming to them for death and as a result, there occurred much disorder and moral fall in the army before the real battle.
Besides the legend depicted on the drawing, there was really an army of bashi-bazouks (In Turkish languages it means “Mad Head“) who didn’t obey any rules, undisciplined living without salaries. They were also mostly religious fanatics which gave horror to western countries.
The western literature and history, this term entered exactly. Even from famous cartoon Tintin series, Captain Haddock used it as a curse and argot. You can read more at Wikipedia about this unique army.
This is exactly what two Turkish families constructed to visit each other without efforts. One side is a 75 years old father, the other side is his daughter and her family. This bridge is already there for 3 years and seems to be secure.. At least until now !
Turkish Bath Culture has roots in Roman Baths and its a history of several centuries starting from Ottoman times.
This book provides detailed information about Ottoman Bath Architecture, The Essential Components of the Bath: Tellak and Natir, The Baths and Sex, the most famous baths (hamams) of Istanbul including Cemberlitas Bath, Cagaloglu Bath, Oruculer Bath, Suleymaniye Bath, Sifa Bath, Gedikpasa Bath, Kosk Bath, Vezneciler Bath and many other ones. You will also read many interesting facts about the Turkish baths and life.
A recommended read about Turkish culture.
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