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English: Authentic English text of the Istanbul Convention, formal full name "Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence", as adopted on 11 May 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey by the Council of Europe.
Istanbul: Memories and the City (İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir) is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. It talks about the vast cultural change that has rocked Turkey – the unending battle between the modern and the receding past. It is also a eulogy to the lost joint family tradition.
Beyazıt State Library (Turkish: Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi; formerly known as the Ottoman Public Library) is a book depositary and digital library in Istanbul. [2] One of Turkey's oldest libraries, it is the first national library of Ottoman manuscripts and one of the country's six legal deposit libraries.
After a seven-year hiatus, the Istanbul Encyclopedia resumed publication on July 15, 1958, with the support of a businessman named Mehmet Ali Akbay. Many writers and illustrators of the period helped Koçu in the Istanbul Encyclopedia. The fascicles were now 16 pages and the size of the paper was reduced to 21x30 cm.
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Constantinople: City of the World's Desire 1453-1924 is a 1995 non-fiction book by Philip Mansel, covering Constantinople (now Istanbul) during the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The author hoped to show positive aspects of the Ottoman Empire while acknowledging some negative aspects. [1]
Antonio Pascual Mateo was hanging lights on the property and around a tree outside a client’s home in Escondido, Calif. when he threw the string of lights over a powerline.