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Ankara (whisky)
Ankara Whisky was the first and only Turkish whisky produced in Turkey. History In the 1960s, during a period of a closed and self-sufficient economy in Turkey, it was decided to produce a domestic whisky both to support domestic production and to prevent foreign exchange outflow from the country due to the import of alcoholic beverages. In this context, a small unit was established within the beer factory of TEKEL in Ankara in 1963, with special incentives given to Prof. Dr. Turgut Yazıcıoğlu by the government of the time. The production volume of this facility, which was a first in the country, was determined as 200,000 liters per year. Thus, the official process of manufacturing and branding the first Turkish whisky began. Although production continued under TEKEL until the mid-2000s, the transition to an open economy in Turkey starting from the 1980s, which allowed the sale of imported alcoholic beverages, led to the gradual decline in the popularity of Ankara Whisky a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TEKEL
Tekel A.Ş. ( Turkish, literally ''single-hand'' or ''monopoly'' and generally capitalised as TEKEL) was a Turkish tobacco and alcoholic beverages company. It was nationalised in 1925 from a parastatal (government owned/controlled) company, the Régie. A joint foreign and Ottoman consortium, the Régie was short for "''La Société de la régie co-intéressée des tabacs de l'Empire Ottoman''". Tekel evolved into the sole manufacturer and distributor of all alcohol and tobacco products in Turkey. Today, Tekel is no longer a monopoly but it does control taxing and distribution of all alcohol and tobacco products in Turkey. In 2008 it was sold to British American Tobacco and discontinued as a trademark in cigarettes, wines, liquors or other products, although some of its brand names are still used without the word "Tekel" preceding them; like the ''Buzbağ'' wine. History Foundation and early history Turkish tobacco was an important industrial crop, where its cultivation and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ankara
Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul. Serving as the capital of the ancient Celtic state of Galatia (280–64 BC), and later of the Roman province with the same name (25 BC–7th century), the city is very old, with various Hattian, Hittite, Lydian, Phrygian, Galatian, Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman archeological sites. The Ottomans made the city the capital first of the Anatolia Eyalet (1393 – late 15th century) and then the Angora Vilayet (1867–1922). The historical center of Ankara is a rocky hill rising over the left bank of the Ankara River, a tributary of the Sakarya River. The hill remains crowned by the ruins of Ankara Castle. Although few of its outworks have survived, there are ... [...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] |
Atatürk Forest Farm And Zoo
Atatürk Forest Farm and Zoo ( tr, Atatürk Orman Çiftliği ve Hayvanat Bahçesi, in short ''AOÇ'') is an expansive recreational farming area, which houses a zoo, several small agricultural farms, greenhouses, restaurants, a dairy farm and a brewery in Ankara, Turkey. The farm and the zoo are under the administration of the Ministry of Agriculture and Village Affairs (Turkey), Ministry of Agriculture and Village Affairs. Forest farm The Forest Farm was established in 1925 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first President of the Turkish Republic as a private farm. After 1926, the management of the farm was offered to Spiritual Christians from Russia living in north Kars Province who were noted for animal breeding (List of horse breeds in DAD-IS, Malakan horse, Malakan cow) but who refused repatriation to Soviet Union. They declined to move to Ankara, because the most zealous believed they must live close to Mount Ararat for the Second Coming of Christ. In 1937, Atatürk donated the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yenimahalle
Yenimahalle is a metropolitan district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia Region, Turkey, Central Anatolia region of Turkey, a fast-growing urban residential district of the city of Ankara, Turkey's capital. According to 2010 census, population of the urban center is 648,160. The district covers an area of , and the average elevation is . Yenimahalle today The name ''Yenimahalle'' means ''the new quarter'' and in the late 1940s the area of open land to the west of the city was allocated for civil servants and workers housing. This grew with the construction of the E5 highway through the area and even more when the metro was built. Today the district mainly consists of large estates of apartment buildings and although the area is being filled up with concrete buildings there is still green space, tennis courts and other sports areas. There is some illegal building at the edge of the district but Yenimahalle is mainly planned development. This is the home for both of Anka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mey (company)
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Mey or MEY may refer to: Places *Mey, Moselle, France *Mey, Highland, Scotland **Castle of Mey **Loch of Mey * East Mey, Highland, Scotland Other uses * Mey (surname), including a list of people with the name *Mey (instrument), a Turkish folk instrument *Mey-Air, a defunct Norwegian airline *Hassaniya Arabic, ISO 639-3 language code mey * Sherdukpen language, or Mey *Meghauli Airport, Bagmati Province, Nepal, IATA airport code MEY See also * May (other) *Mei (other) Mei may refer to: Names * Mei (surname), a Chinese, Italian, Russian or Estonian family name * Mei (given name), a given name Places * Mei County, Guangdong, China, a county * Mei Pass, Guangdong, a strategic mountain pass * Mei River, Guang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diageo
Diageo plc () is a Multinational corporation, multinational alcoholic beverage company, with its headquarters in London, England. It operates from 132 sites around the world. It was the world's largest distiller before being overtaken by Kweichow Moutai of China in 2017. It is a major distributor of Scotch whisky and other spirits. Its leading brands include Johnnie Walker, Guinness, Smirnoff, Baileys liqueur, Captain Morgan rum and Tanqueray and Gordon's Gin, Gordon's gin. Diageo has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Name Diageo is an invented name that was created by the branding consultancy Wolff Olins in 1997. The name is composed of the Latin word ''diēs'', meaning "day", and the Greek root ''geo-'', meaning "world"; and is meant to reference the company slogan "Celebrating Life, Every Day, Everywhere". History Diageo was formed in 1997 from the merger of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turgut Yazıcıoğlu
Turgut is a Turkish given name. Turgut may also refer to: Given name * Turgut Alp, Ottoman military commander ** Turgut Alp (fictional character), a character based on Turgut Alp in ''Diriliş: Ertuğrul'' * Ankaralı Turgut (born 1963), Turkish singer * Turgut Atakol (1915–1988), Turkish basketball player * Turgut Aykaç (born 1958), former Turkish boxer * Turgut Berkes (born 1953), Turkish rock musician, painter, and writer * Turgut Doğan Şahin (born 1988), Turkish footballer * Turgut Özatay (1927–2002), Turkish film actor * Turgut Özal (1927–1993), Turkish president and political leader * Turgut Polat (born 1953), Turkish table tennis player * Turgut Reis (1485-1565), Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; and first Bey, later Pasha, of Tripoli * Turgut Uçar (born 1964), Turkish football manager and coach * Yasar Turgut Bilgin, (born 1957), Turkish author Surname * Azmi Turgut (born 1988), Turkish basketball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T24 (newspaper)
T24 is a Turkish online newspaper. History T24 was launched on 1 September 2009. Initial staff of T24 were consisting of former ''Tempo24'' employees. On 29 December 2012, T24 started their YouTube channel and uploaded their first video on 12 April 2013. In 2013, author and columnist Hasan Cemal joined T24. In September 2013, T24 announced "T24 Okur Fonu" their crowdfunding venture that planned to collect funds from its readers. In September 2013, led by Hasan Cemal, Doğan Akın, Yavuz Baydar, Yasemin Çongar, Andrew Finkel, Hazal Özvarış and Murat Sabuncu, T24 staff established Punto24, a self-proclaimed "independent press platform". On 14 January 2015, T24 published an entire instalment of Charlie Hebdo, which included cartoons depicting Muhammad the Prophet, following 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting. In February 2015, T24 started their online literary criticism initiative Kitap Kültür Kritik 24 (K24). Between 30 October and 13 November 2015, Nazlı Ilıcak published her c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agos
''Agos'' (in hy, Ակօս, "furrow") is an Armenian bilingual weekly newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey, established on 5 April 1996. ''Agos'' has both Armenian and Turkish pages as well as an online English edition. Today, the paper has a weekly circulation of over 5,000. History Turkish-Armenian Hrant Dink was ''Agos'' chief editor from the newspaper's beginnings until his assassination outside the newspaper's offices in Istanbul in January 2007. Hrant Dink's son, Arat Dink, who served as the executive editor of the weekly, had been co-defendant in the cases brought against Hrant Dink for "denigrating Turkishness" on account of his managerial position at the weekly. After Hrant Dink's assassination, Etyen Mahçupyan Etyen Mahçupyan (born 9 March 1950) is a Turkish journalist, writer, columnist and politician of Armenian descent who served as the senior adviser to Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu from 2014-2015. He is one of the executive members of . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hittite Sun Disk
The Hittite Sun Disk or Hittite Sun Course is an ancient Anatolian symbol dating back to the 20th century BC. The disks can be divided into four distinct variations. These are Semi-circular, Diamond shaped, Circular with bulls' horn and circular of semicircular with a complex design including animals and horns. The last one of those types was replicated in the Hittite Sun Course Monument. The sun disks have been found in at least 13 royal tombs from the early Bronze Age in Alaca Höyük. Description Ankara University writes that: Modern usage The sun disk is used as the symbol of Ankara University. In 1974, it became the symbol of the Turkish capital, Ankara until it was replaced with an Islamic symbol in 1995.{{Cite book , last1=Galaty , first1=Michael L. , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OEnd58DfwmIC&dq=Sun+language+theory+and+archaeology&pg=PA149 , title=Archaeology Under Dictatorship , last2=Watkinson , first2=Charles , date=2007-03-14 , publisher=Springer Science & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
