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2013 In Turkey
The following lists events in the year 2013 in Turkey. Incumbents *President: Abdullah Gül *Prime Minister: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan *Speaker: Cemil Çiçek Events January *7 January - An explosion at a coal mine in the Zonguldak province kills eight miners. *17 January - Thousands of Kurds pour into the streets of Diyarbakır to mourn the death of Sakine Cansız, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, who was killed in Paris, France on the 9th. February *1 February - The United States embassy is bombed in the capital of Ankara, killing 2 people. *2 February - Radical leftist group Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front claims responsibility for yesterday's bombing. March *13 March - Kurdish rebels free eight Turkish citizens who have been held captive for two years. *19 March - Two people are injured in bombings on Turkey's justice ministry and headquarters of the governing AK Party in Ankara. This was allegedly done by Kurdish militants. *21 March - PKK leader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a East Thrace, small portion on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Cyprus is located off the south coast. Turkish people, Turks form the vast majority of the nation's population and Kurds are the largest minority. Ankara is Turkey's capital, while Istanbul is its list of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city and financial centre. One of the world's earliest permanently Settler, settled regions, present-day Turkey was home to important Neol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdullah Öcalan
Abdullah Öcalan ( ; ; born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish and Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Öcalan was based in Syria from 1979 to 1998. He helped found the PKK in 1978, and led it into the Kurdish–Turkish conflict in 1984. For most of his leadership, he was based in Syria, which provided sanctuary to the PKK until the late 1990s. After being forced to leave Syria, Öcalan was abducted in Nairobi in 1999 by the Turkish National Intelligence Agency (MIT) (with assistance of the USA) and taken to Turkey, where after a trial he was sentenced to death under Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code, which concerns the formation of armed organizations. The sentence was commuted to aggravated life imprisonment when Turkey abolished the death penalty. From 1999 until 2009, he was the sole prisoner in İmralı prison in the Sea of Marmara, where he is still held. Ö ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adnan Şenses
Adnan Şenses (21 August 1935 – 25 December 2013) was a Turkish musician and actor. Biography Şenses was born on 21 August 1935 in Bursa. He was schooled in Ankara and continued his education later at Karagümrük neighborhood of Fatih district in Istanbul. In 1956, he began his singing career. Şenses was employed by Radio Ankara, where he served 16 years long. Then, he appeared on the stage of many major music halls, and played in a total of 47 Yeşilçam films. He released 54 rpms, 29 (7 of them were LPs) albums during his music career. Death Şenses died of respiratory failure on 25 December 2013 at the age of 78 in an Istanbul hospital after two weeks of hospitalization. He had been suffering from stomach cancer for about three years. He was buried at the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery following a religious funeral held at Teşvikiye Mosque. He was survived by his wife Lale Şenses. Discography Filmography See also * List of Turkish musicians A ''list'' is any set of items ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
İsmet Kür
İsmet Kür (born Zorluhankızı, 29 September 1916 – 21 January 2013) was a Turkish educator, journalist, columnist and writer of mainly children's literature. Her writings included children's stories, novels, memoirs, short story, poems, and non-fiction. As a journalist, she worked at the BBC World Service, ''Cumhuriyet'', ''Barış'', and '' Yeni İstanbul''. She also provided programming at Ankara Radio, TRT, and Bayrak. Personal life İsmet Kür was born on 29 September 1916 in Göztepe, Kadıköy, in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey), in a mansion frequented by writers and poets. Her father Avnullah Kazim was a journalist, writer and politician, and her mother Ayşe Nazlı, an intellectual woman. Her sister Halide Nusret Zorlutuna (1901–1984) was a poet and writer. After the Surname Law went into effect in 1934, she took the family name "Zorluhankızı", meaning the "daughter of Zorluhan" because her name "İsmet" is mainly used for males, and caused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ercan Aktuna
Ercan Aktuna (1 January 1940 – 20 September 2013) was a Turkish footballer who played as a defender for Fenerbahçe and İstanbulspor. Aktuna started his career in 1957 at İstanbulspor, then transferred to Fenerbahçe in 1965. He won five Turkish League titles in ten years. He also played 29 times for Turkey. He ended his career with Fenerbahçe jersey in 1975. On 20 September 2013, Ercan Aktuna died in Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ..., aged 73. References External links * 1940 births 2013 deaths Turkish footballers Association football defenders Turkey international footballers Fenerbahçe S.K. footballers İstanbulspor footballers Fenerbahçe football managers Turkish football managers {{Turkey-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behsat Üvez
Behsat Üvez (May 2, 1959 – February 22, 2013) was a Turkish singer, composer, and teacher. He was the founder of Barana. Üvez was born in Ankara. Death On February 22, 2013, Behsat Üvez died of lung cancer in Groningen. Discography Albums * Barana Co. (2002) * İleriye Anılar * Gül ve Bülbül * Şarap (2009) * Xenopolis (2011, with Ceylan Ertem Ceylan Ertem (born 1 December 1980) is Turkish singer-songwriter. Early life and career Ceylan Ertem started her musical career by joining the Akhisar Municipality’s children choir. She started learning how to play piano in 1995 and moved to ... ) * Electro Shaman (2012) Projects, Tours * Female Factory (1998, 1999, 2000) * 5-May project with the Metropol Orchestra (1998) * Music Meeting (Nijmegen, 2000) * Foundation Jazz Utrecht (2000-2001) * The Culture Factory Amsterdam (1999-2000) * Foundation Kulsan (2000) * Circus Colourful City in Nijmegen (2001) * Global Village Orchestra (2001'den günümüze) * Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, cultural and historic hub. The city straddles the Bosporus strait, lying in both Europe and Asia, and has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey. Istanbul is the list of European cities by population within city limits, most populous European city, and the world's List of largest cities, 15th-largest city. The city was founded as Byzantium ( grc-gre, Βυζάντιον, ) in the 7th century BCE by Ancient Greece, Greek settlers from Megara. In 330 CE, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great made it his imperial capital, renaming it first as New Rome ( grc-gre, Νέα Ῥώμη, ; la, Nova Roma) and then as Constantinople () after himself. The city grew in size and influence, eventually becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taksim Square
Taksim Square ( tr, Taksim Meydanı, ), situated in Beyoğlu in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey, is a major tourist and leisure district famed for its restaurants, shops, and hotels. It is considered the heart of modern Istanbul, with the central station of the Istanbul Metro network. Taksim Square is also the location of the Republic Monument ( tr, Cumhuriyet Anıtı) which was crafted by Pietro Canonica and inaugurated in 1928. The monument commemorates the 5th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, following the Turkish War of Independence. The square is flanked to the south by The Marmara Hotel, to the east by the Atatürk Cultural Center, Atatürk Cultural Centre, to the north by Taksim Gezi Park, Gezi Park and to the west by Taksim Mosque. Several major roads converge on the square: Gümüşsuyu Caddesi, Cumhuriyet Caddesi, Tarlabaşı Bulvarı, İstiklal Avenue, İstiklal Caddesi and Sıraselviler Caddesi. History The word Taksim means "di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gezi Park
Taksim Gezi Park is an urban park next to Taksim Square, in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district (historically known as Pera.) It is one of the last green spaces in Beyoğlu and one of the smallest parks of Istanbul. In May 2013, plans to replace the park with a reconstruction of the former Taksim Military Barracks (demolished in 1940) intended to house a shopping mall sparked the nationwide 2013 protests in Turkey. History The Taksim Gezi Park is located at the former site of the Halil Pasha Artillery Barracks, a large square-shaped military barracks complex constructed in 1806 with an extensive open drill-ground. near the "Frank and Armenian burial grounds", or the former Grand Champs des Morts. From 1560 to 1939 the Pangaltı Armenian Cemetery was located on the northern section of today's Gezi Park, at the vicinity of the Surp Agop Hospital. The land plot of the cemetery was confiscated by the Turkish government as part of Henri Prost's plans to build Taksim Gezi Park and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gezi Park Protests
A wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Turkey began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by outrage at the violent eviction of a sit-in at the park protesting the plan. Subsequently, supporting protests and strikes took place across Turkey, protesting against a wide range of concerns at the core of which were issues of freedom of the press, of expression and of assembly, as well as the alleged political Islamist government's erosion of Turkey's secularism. With no centralised leadership beyond the small assembly that organised the original environmental protest, the protests have been compared to the Occupy movement and the May 1968 events. Social media played a key part in the protests, not least because much of the Turkish media downplayed the protests, particularly in the early stages. Three and a half million people (out of Turkey's population of 80 million) are estimated to have ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cappadocia
Cappadocia or Capadocia (; tr, Kapadokya), is a historical region in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It largely is in the provinces Nevşehir, Kayseri, Aksaray, Kırşehir, Sivas and Niğde. According to Herodotus, in the time of the Ionian Revolt (499 BC), the Cappadocians were reported as occupying a region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine (Black Sea). Cappadocia, in this sense, was bounded in the south by the chain of the Taurus Mountains that separate it from Cilicia, to the east by the upper Euphrates, to the north by Pontus, and to the west by Lycaonia and eastern Galatia. Van Dam, R. ''Kingdom of Snow: Roman rule and Greek culture in Cappadocia.'' Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, p.13 The name, traditionally used in Christian sources throughout history, continues in use as an international Tourism in Turkey, tourism concept to define a region of exceptional natural wonders, in particular characterized by fairy chimneys and a unique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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