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The Turkish boncuk (sometimes called a göz boncuğu or eye bead) is a glass bead characterized by a blue glass field with a blue white and black dot superimposed on a white or yellow center. A design of great antiquity, the blue bead has gained importance as an item of popular culture in modern Turkey.
In the Aegean Region and other areas where light-colored eyes are relatively rare, people with green eyes, and especially blue eyes, are thought to bestow the curse, intentionally or unintentionally. [36] Thus, in Greece and Turkey amulets against the evil eye take the form of eyes looking back at someone.
Çakır is a Turkish surname, that derives from colour blue. It was often associated with people who had blue eyes, which are uncommon in Turkey. Notable people with the surname include: Aslı Çakır Alptekin (born 1985), Turkish female middle distance runner; Cüneyt Çakır (born 1976), Turkish UEFA Elite association football referee
The two sisters (Blue-Eyes and the renamed Red-Skirts) misbehave to come into possession of the box, only for the new mother with the glass eyes and wooden tail to be revealed as the beggar woman, who was in disguise. The children are swallowed by the woman's handbag that grows to a large size when she arrives at their house. The story ends ...
Maturin Murray Ballou described Circassians as being of the "fair and rosy-cheeked race", and "with a form of ravishing loveliness, large and lustrous eyes, and every belonging that might go to make up a Venus". [27] In Henry Lindlahr's words in the early 20th century, "Blue-eyed Caucasian regiments today form the cream of the Sultan's army ...
Blue Eye Samurai. Over the weekend, ASIFA-Hollywood, the LA branch of the International Animated Film Association, held its 51st annual Annie Awards ceremony, honoring productions that represent ...
Detailed satellite images give a bird’s-eye view Turkish towns before and after the earthquakes hit, and of relief efforts.
The Turkish Angora (Turkish: Ankara kedisi, 'Ankara cat' [2] ... The gene responsible for blue eyes and white coat in the Angora can cause deafness. [11]