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Commemoration Of Atatürk, Youth And Sports Day
The Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (), is an annual Turkish national holiday celebrated on May 19 to commemorate Mustafa Kemal's landing at Samsun on May 19, 1919, which is regarded as the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence in the official historiography. History Gymnastics Festival The first "Gymnastics Festival" (''İdman Bayramı'') was held at the sport meadow of Kadıköy İttihad Sports (Union Club until 1915) by Erkek Muallim Mektebi (Teachers' College for Boys) with personal enterprise of Selim Sirri Bey (Tarcan), who was the Inspector of the Ministry of Education of the Ottoman Empire at the time. According to some sources, it was held on May 12, 1916, as to Faik Reşit Unat, in May 1916, as to Selim Sırrı Tarcan himself, on April 29, 1916. Selim Sirri Bey had brought a score of the Swedish folk music titled '' Tre trallande jäntor'' ("Three carolling girls") and collected by Felix Körling. This folk music became "Dağ Başını Dum ...
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 â€“ 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death and state funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping Atatürk's reforms, reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secularism in Turkey, secular, industrializing nation. Ideologically a Secularism, secularist and Turkish nationalism, nationalist, Atatürk's reforms, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism. He came to prominence for his role in securing the Ottoman victory at the Battle of Gallipoli (1915) during World War I. Although not directly involved in the Armenian genocide, his government would later grant immunity to remaining perpetrators. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, he led the Turkish National Movement, which resisted the Empire's partition ...
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Ninth Army (Ottoman Empire)
The Ninth Army of the Ottoman Empire ( Turkish: ''Dokucuncu Ordu'') was one of the field armies of the Ottoman Army. It was formed during World War I. World War I Order of Battle, June 1918 In June 1918, the army was structured as follows:Edward J. Erickson, ''Order to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War'', Greenwood Press, 2001, , p. 188. *Ninth Army, (Mirliva Yakup Şevki Pasha) ** I Caucasian Corps (Mirliva Kâzım Karabekir Pasha) *** 9th Caucasian Division, 10th Caucasian Division, 15th Division ** IV Corps (Mirliva Ali İhsan Pasha) *** 5th Division, 11th Division, 12th Division **Independent Cavalry Brigade Order of Battle, September 1918 In September 1918, the army was structured as follows:Edward J. Erickson, ''Order to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War'', Greenwood Press, 2001, , p. 197. *Ninth Army, (Mirliva Yakup Şevki Pasha) **9th Caucasian Division, 11th Caucasian Division, 12th Division, Independent Cavalry ...
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Republic Of Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west. Turkey is home to over 85 million people; most are ethnic Turkish people, Turks, while ethnic Kurds in Turkey, Kurds are the Minorities in Turkey, largest ethnic minority. Officially Secularism in Turkey, a secular state, Turkey has Islam in Turkey, a Muslim-majority population. Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city. Istanbul is its largest city and economic center. Other major cities include İzmir, Bursa, and Antalya. First inhabited by modern humans during the Late Paleolithic, present-day Turkey was home to List of ancient peoples of Anatolia, various ancient peoples. The Hattians ...
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Anıtkabir
Anıtkabir (; ) is a mausoleum complex located in the Çankaya district of Ankara, Turkey. It serves as the resting place of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first President of the Turkish Republic. Designed by architects Emin Onat and Orhan Arda, the construction of Anıtkabir began in 1944 and was completed in 1953. In addition to the mausoleum, the complex consists of various structures and monuments, as well as a wooded area known as the Peace Park. Following Atatürk's death on November 10, 1938, it was announced that his remains would be kept at the Ethnography Museum of Ankara until a mausoleum could be constructed in Ankara. To determine the location for the mausoleum, a commission was established by the government. Based on a report prepared by the commission, it was decided during a meeting of the Republican People's Party parliamentary group on January 17, 1939, that the structure would be built on Rasattepe. Following this decision, expropriation work bega ...
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BeÅŸiktaÅŸ JK
BeÅŸiktaÅŸ () is a district and municipality of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 18 km2 and its population is 175,190 (2022). It is located on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait. It is bordered on the north by Sarıyer and ÅžiÅŸli, on the west by Kağıthane and ÅžiÅŸli, on the south by BeyoÄŸlu, and on the east by the Bosphorus. Directly across the Bosphorus is the district of Üsküdar. The district includes a number of important sites along the European shore of the Bosphorus, from Dolmabahçe Palace in the south to the Bebek area in the north. It is also home to many inland (and relatively expensive, upper-middle class) neighborhoods such as Levent and Etiler. Some of its other well-known neighborhoods include Yıldız, KuruçeÅŸme, Ortaköy, and Arnavutköy. BeÅŸiktaÅŸ' historic commercial centre is the BeÅŸiktaÅŸ quarter and Çarşı (literally, "marketplace"), which adjoins the small AbbasaÄŸa Park. The district is home to the oldest sport ...
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Ahmet Fetgeri AÅŸeni
Ahmet Fetgeri AÅŸeni (1886–1966) was a Turkish navy officer, sports official and politician during the Atatürk era. He was also one of the founding members of BeÅŸiktaÅŸ JK BeÅŸiktaÅŸ () is a district and municipality of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 18 km2 and its population is 175,190 (2022). It is located on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait. It is bordered on the north by Sarıyer and ..., which he also served as a president. Life He served as the president of the Turkish Wrestling Federation and the Turkish Athletics Federation. He graduated from the MSU Naval Academy, which is today the faculty of Istanbul Technical University. Ahmet Fetgeri's brother Mehmet Ali Fetgeri was a gymnast and weightlifter, and his daughter Suat Fetgeri was a fencing athlete. Legacy The Ahmet Fetgeri Sports Hall, located in the Fulya neighborhood of Istanbul's ÅžiÅŸli district and bearing his name, continued to exist from 1985 until 2005. 19 May Commemora ...
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BeÅŸiktaÅŸ J
BeÅŸiktaÅŸ () is a List of districts in Turkey, district and List of municipalities in Turkey, municipality of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 18 km2 and its population is 175,190 (2022). It is located on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait. It is bordered on the north by Sarıyer and ÅžiÅŸli, on the west by Kağıthane and ÅžiÅŸli, on the south by BeyoÄŸlu, and on the east by the Bosphorus. Directly across the Bosphorus is the district of Üsküdar. The district includes a number of important sites along the European shore of the Bosphorus, from Dolmabahçe Palace in the south to the Bebek, Istanbul, Bebek area in the north. It is also home to many inland (and relatively expensive, upper-middle class) neighborhoods such as Levent and Etiler. Some of its other well-known neighborhoods include Yıldız, BeÅŸiktaÅŸ, Yıldız, KuruçeÅŸme, Ortaköy, and Arnavutköy. BeÅŸiktaÅŸ' historic commercial centre is the BeÅŸiktaÅŸ quarter and Çarşı ...
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Amasya
Amasya () is a city in northern Turkey, in the Black Sea Region. It was called Amaseia or Amasia in antiquity."Amasya" in ''Encyclopædia Britannica, The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 313. It is the seat of Amasya Province and Amasya District.İl Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
Its population is 114,921 (2021). Amasya stands in the mountains above the Black Sea (Karadeniz) coast, set apart from the rest of Anatolia in a narrow valley along the banks of the Yeşilırmak (river), Yeşilırmak River. Although near the Black Sea, this area is high above the coast and has an inland climate, well-suited to growing apples, for which Amasya province, one of the provinces in north-centr ...
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Şevket Süreyya Aydemir
Şevket Süreyya Aydemir (1897–25 March 1976) was a Turkish writer, intellectual, economist, historian, and one of the founders, publisher and a key theorist of '' Kadro'' ("Cadre"), an influential left-wing political journal published in Turkey from 1932 to 1934. Life Aydemir was educated and became familiar with Marxism at Moscow University where he studied economics, and worked as a teacher in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Russia. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of Turkey, and attended a Soviet-sponsored Congress for the Peoples of the East in Baku on the Turkish party's behalf. Upon his return to Turkey from the Soviet Union, he wrote for '' Aydınlık'' magazine. The magazine was shut down in 1925 for political reasons, and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Ankara Independence Court for the views he had expounded in the magazine. He was released after a year and a half. He was tried again in 1927 but this time wa ...
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Havza
Havza (Ottoman حوضة) is a municipality and district of Samsun Province, Turkey. Its area is 865 km2, and its population is 38,492 (2022). The mayor is Sebahattin Özdemir ( AKP). Composition There are 98 neighbourhoods A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ... in Havza District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. * 19 Mayıs * 25 Mayıs * Ağcamahmut * Ağdırhasan * Arslançayırı * Aşağısusuz * Aşağıyavucak * Bahçelievler * Başpelit * Bekdiğin * Belalan * Beyköy * Beyören * Boyalı * Boyalıca * Çakıralan * Çamyatağı * Çay * Çayırözü * Çelikalan * Ce ...
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The is a general knowledge, general-knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It has been published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. since 1768, although the company has changed ownership seven times. The 2010 version of the 15th edition, which spans 32 volumes and 32,640 pages, was the last printed edition. Since 2016, it has been published exclusively as an online encyclopedia, online encyclopaedia. Printed for 244 years, the ''Britannica'' was the longest-running in-print encyclopaedia in the English language. It was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland, in three volumes. The encyclopaedia grew in size; the second edition was 10 volumes, and by its fourth edition (1801–1810), it had expanded to 20 volumes. Its rising stature as a scholarly work helped recruit eminent contributors, and the 9th (1875–1889) and Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, 11th editions (1911) are landmark encyclopaedias for scholarship and literary ...
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Proclamation Of The Republic Of Turkey
The proclamation of the Republic of Turkey (), formally declared during a session of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 29 October 1923, established of Turkey's form of government as a republic. This was realized by a constitutional amendment drafted by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In a broader sense, the proclamation of the republic was an integral part of Atatürk's reforms aimed at modernizing Turkish society, constituting a political revolutionary movement that paved the way for other renewal and reforms. Alongside the ''"Law Concerning the Amendment Pertaining to the Modification of Certain Provisions of the Turkish Constitution, No. 364, dated 29 October 1339 (1923)"'', amendments were made to six articles (1, 2, 4, 10, 11, and 12) of the Turkish Constitution of 1921; the first article was modified as follows: ''"Sovereignty unconditionally belongs to the Nation. The administrative method is based on the principle of the direct and actual administration of the people's af ...
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