Atatürk, Founder of The Turkish Repuclic and The First President of The Repuclic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in a three-storey pink house at Islahhane Street, Kocakasim District, Salonika in 1881. His father was Ali Riza Efendi and mother was Zübeyde Hanim. His paternal grand father Hafiz Efendi is a member of Kocacik Nomads from…
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Florence Nightingale
The most important military confrontation during the reign of Sultan Abdülmecid (1823, 1839-1861) was the three-year Crimean War (1853-1856) between the Russians and the British, French, Sardinians and Ottomans. It marks the first Ottoman war, for which Ottomans allied with other countries. Among the major causes of the war was that Russians desired to expand their territory south…
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Hz. Mevlâna Celaleddin-i Rumi
(1207-1273) "Either seem as you are, or be as you seem", Hz. Mevlâna Hz. Mevlâna Celaleddin-i Rumi, the founder of the Mevlevi Order, is the great Anatolian theologian, scholar, and poet. Known as Hz. Mevlâna in the East and as Rumi in the West, his birth name was Mohammed, and he was later nicknamed "Celaleddin".…
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