Ayvalık & Midilli Mutfağı (Aivali & Lesvos Kitchen)-Pınar Atay Başol

Title: Ayvalk & Midilli Mutfağı (Aivali & Lesvos Kitchen)
Author: Pınar Atay Başol
Label: Alfa Yayınevi
Year: 2009
Pages: 253
ISBN: 9786051061207
Language: Turkish

It contains that food cultere of Aivali & Lesvos..


"Ayvalık'a yolunuz düştüğünde, yaz olsun kış olsun, her zaman birbirinden lezzetli otlar bulabilmeniz mümkündür. Belki de adını yeni duymuş olacağınız istifno, deniz börülcesi, susamotu, radika/hindiba, yaban ıspanağı, muhliye, ebegümeci, kuzukulağı, ısırganotu, cibes, hardalotu, yaban sarımsağı, akkız/şevketi bostan, turpotu, yaban kerevizi, kazayağı, arapsaçı/rezene, leylekgagası, zoho gibi nice otlar...Bu otlar nerede, hangi mevsimde yetişir, hangi yemeklerde kullanılır ve nelere faydalıdırlar? Pişirilirken dikkat edilmesi gereken esaslar nelerdir? Hangi et hangi yemeğe yakışır? Hangi balık hangi mevsimde bulunur?Pınar Atay Başol'a dedesinden miras kalan tarifler, annesi Afet Atay'ın da katkısıyla bu kitapta toplandı. Ege yöresine özgü, hem sağlıklı hem de hafif tariflerden oluşan Lezzet Sırlarıyla Ayvalık ve Midilli Mutfağı, Ayvalık'a özgü hafif, sağlıklı ve lezzetli yemek tarifleriyle dolu."

Bizans-Osmanlı Sentezi (Byzantine-Ottoman Synthesis)

Book: Bizans-Osmanlı Sentezi /Bizans Kültür ve Kurumlarının Osmanlı Üzerindeki Etkisi (Byzantine-Ottoman Synthesis)
Author: İsmail Tokalak
Publisher: Gülerboy Yayınları
Year: 2006
Pages: 704
ISBN: 9944547204

Description: Araştırmacı yazar İsmail Tokalak eserinde; Türklerin Bizansla tanışması ve Anadoluda yeni Türk kimliğinin oluşum süreci, Osmanlı öncesi Bizansın İslam dünyasına etkisi, devlet kurumları, toprak düzeni ve vergi sistemindeki benzerlikler, yemek ve müzik kültürü, dini inanışlar, büyü ve evliyalık/azizlik öykülerinin benzerliği, mimari, dil etkileşimi ve Bizans ve Osmanlıda kadın başlıklarıyla incelemiş ve ortaya oldukça kapsamlı bir kültür hazinesi çıkarmış. 1000 yıl birlikte yaşayan bu iki halkın karşılıklı kültür etkileşimlerini irdeleyen ve ezberleri bozan bir kitap.

This book is about the similarities of the Ottoman and Byzantine state traditions, tax system, army order, religious interactions like saints and evliya/veli/abdals etc., common music roots and food culture, language interactions, architecture, Byzantine & Turks' relations in the history.

Theodora-Radi Dikici

Title: Theodora
Author: Radi Dikici
Publisher: Remzi Kitabevi
Language: Turkish
Year: 2009
Page: 367
ISBN: 9751413482

Bizans’ın gizemli imparatoriçesinin soluk kesici romanı…

Bizans imparatoriçesinin 48 yıllık yaşamını, günümüze ulaşan belgelerden de yararlanarak ele alan bu roman, işleniş ve kapsamıyla bir ilki temsil ediyor.
Dünya tarihinde kraliçe, çariçe, sultan ve benzeri unvanlarla hüküm sürmüş kadınlar arasında Theodora kadar güçlü bir imparatoriçe olmamıştır. O, hükmetme gücünü bizzat kendi yaratmış ve herkes ona biat etmiştir.
Tarih O'nu, bir taraftan cinsellik düşkünü –elbette gerçek payı vardır– bir kadın olarak tanıtırken, öte yandan çelik gibi bir iradeyle Bizans İmparatorluğu’nu önemli badirelerden kurtaran bir imparatoriçe olarak alkışlamıştır.
Theodora’yı bir yandan zaaflarıyla ve başarılarıyla izleyip hayranlık duyacak, öte yandan Bizans’ın o soluk kesici entrikalarını bir serüven filmi gibi izleyeceksiniz.

500 Years of Ottoman Cuisine-Marianna Yerasimos

Title: 500 Yıllık Osmanlı Mutfağı (500 Years of Ottoman Cuisine)

Author: Marianna Yerasimos

Publisher: Boyut

Year: 2005

ISBN: 9752301115

Language: Turkish

Pages:308

"Osmanlı Mutfağı... İstanbul'daki saray mutfağında ve saray çevresinde yaşayan, güzel yemeklerden hoşlanan bir seçkinler grubu tarafından 15. yüzyıldan itibaren biçimlendirilmiş bir yemek kültürü... Bu kültür, kullanılan malzemeden pişirme yöntemlerine, yemek çeşitlerinden yemek yeme alışkanlıklarına, yemek öğünlerine, sofradaki görgü kurallarına, mutfak binalarına dek pek çok konuyu kapsamakta. Bu kitapta Osmanlı yemek kültürünü oluşturan ögelere kısaca değiniyor, sonra da bu mutfaktan alınıp çağdaş mutfağa uyarlanan, denenmiş ve yapılabilir 99 yemek tarifi sunuyoruz. Osmanlıların beslenme alışkanlıklarını kavramak için bazen 7. yüzyılın Orta Asya'sına; bir yemeğin köklerini bulmak için 9. yüzyıla, Abbasi İmparatorluğu'nun başkenti Bağdat'a; pilavların sırrını çözmek için 13. yüzyıla, Moğol istilasına uğrayan Anadolu'ya, oradan da Safevi sarayına gidiyor; bu arada 15. yüzyılın çok öncesinden günümüze kadar, sadece zaman içinde değil, mekanlar içinde de yolculuk yapıyoruz. Bazen balık, balık yumurtası, havyar, lakerda ya da lalanga söz konusu olunca Bizans'a, hatta Roma İmparatorluğu'na dek uzanıyoruz."

Murat Belge-Istanbul Travel Guide

Book Title: Istanbul Travel Guide

Turkish Title: Istanbul Gezi Rehberi

Author: Murat Belge
ISBN: 9789750504730

Language: Turkish
Year: 2007
Pages: 423

Publisher: İletişim Yayınları
Description: Prof.Dr.Murat Belge's Istanbul guide is about the old legends of the city, unknown historical places and stories from Byzantine and Ottoman period, ethimologic roots of the district names..

Everyone who believe that Istanbul is the capital city of the world should read this book.

http://www.iletisim.com.tr/iletisim/book.aspx?bid=1298&kitap=İstanbul%20Gezi%20Rehberi

Zafer Karaca-Istanbul Greek Orthodox Churches

Book Title: Greek Orthodox Churches in Istanbul before 1839

Turkish Title: İstanbul'da Tanzimat Öncesi Rum Ortodoks Kiliseleri

Author: Zafer Karaca

ISBN: 9789750814839

Language: Turkish

Year: 2008

Pages: 680

Publisher: Yapı Kredi Yayınları

Description: It's about Istanbul Greek Orthodox Churches in Istanbul.why before 1839? because after the westernisation and reformisation process (1839) , Greek churches were influenced from this period and church architecture look like to the western European churches..This book is about the more Greek/Byzantine architecture.

https://www.ideefixe.com/kitap/tanim.asp?sid=BOJFH76RF14F2EKFJ264

Giorgos Leonardos - The Last Palaeologue

Book Title: The Last Palaeologue
Greek Title: Ο τελευταίος Παλαιολόγος
Author: Giorgos Leonardos
ISBN: 978-960-14-1644-1
Language: Greek
Year: 2007
Pages: 541
Publisher: Livanis "Nea Sinora" http://www.livanis.gr
Description: An historical novel that refers to the last Empire of the Byzantine, Constantine Palaiologos, based on the Venetian, Turkish and Greek sources.
The questions answered were, how much did the Byzantines fight the Ottomans to save Constantinople, and how much the Latin Catholics. Who traded Constantine Palaiologos and who raised the ottoman flag in the castle of “Vlahernon” while he was fighting in the central walls of the City. How much did the clergy resist the capture of the city or figh for their own tide to obtain privileges with the ottoman establishment. What happened after the fall of the Byzantine Empire……

Website:
http://www.gleonardos.gr/gleon_index_en.html

AVLU - Η ΚΑΓΚΕΛΟΠΟΡΤΑ

Book Title: AVLU - Η ΚΑΓΚΕΛΟΠΟΡΤΑ
Author: Andreas Franghias
ISBN: 978-975-08-1189-0
Language: Turkish
Publisher: In Turkey Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2007, translation Berin Myisli
Description: Çok para kazanma hayalleriyle yanıp tutuşan sokak satıcısı Eftihis, taşrada öğretmenlik yapan kocasından hayallerine sığınan Lukia, direniş zamanının yiğitlerinden muhasebeci Andonis, siyasi suçlu, kendinden kaçak Angelos ve onu muazzam bir aşkla bekleyen İsmini...

Avlu, 2. Dünya Savaşı’nın yıkıntıları arasındaki Atina’nın belki de en yoksul mahallesinde yaşayan insanların hüzün ve mizah yüklü öyküsü. Kendisini yeniden biçimlendirmeye çalışan bir kentin geleceğinin belirsizliğiyle geçmişinin kâbusları arasında salınan bir toplumun portresini çizen Andreas Franghias’ın romanı, suyun öte yanından tutulan bir ayna.

Eftihis, the street vendor who is burning with a desire to make a lot of money, Lukia who hides in the memories of her husband who teaches in a village, the accountant Andonis, who used to be a brave fighter at times of resistance, the political prisoner Angelos, who also ran away from himself and Ismini who waits for him with undying love…The book is full of emotion and humor and tells about the story of people living in Athens during the Second World War, among the ruins of perhaps the city’s poorest district. Andreas Franghias’ın story is a reflection of a society that tries to restructure itself, torn between the nightmares of the past and ambiguities of the future.
Kitaptan: “…Angelos derin bir nefes alarak zorlukla devam etti: ‘Korku bir hastalıktır, İsmini. Sinirlerini bozar, beynini boşaltır, iç organlarının titrediğini hissedersin. Çok ağır bir hastalıktır, insanı felç eder, aptallaştırır. Bu durumun yaşamakla hiçbir ilgisi yoktur, her geçen gün kaosa sürüklenirsin. Yaşamda kalma çabası çok masraflıdır. Açıkça söylüyorum: Korkuyordum. Şimdi ikinci aşamadayım: Utanıyorum. Dün akşam yatağın altındaydım, hiç benden bunu bekler miydin? Bu akşam ise işe yaramaz bir şey gibi bu depodayım. Fakat teslim de olamam…’…”

From the Book: “ …Angelos took a deep breath and continued with great effort:
‘Fear is an illness, Ismini. It wrecks your nerves, empties your brain, you feel your internal organs shivering. It’s a severe illness, it paralyzes one, it makes one stupid. This condition has nothing to do with living, everyday you find yourself moving towards chaos. The cost of surviving is very high. I tell you honestly: I was afraid. Now, I’m in the second stage: I’m ashamed. Last night I was under the bed. Would you have ever expected this from me? Tonight I’m in this storage like a useless thing. But I can’t surrender either…”

Stratis Myrivilis - Argonaftis - Post Avcisi

Greek original title: Αργοναύτης, Argonaftis
Turkish edition title: Post Avcisi
Author: Stratis Myrivilis (Mirivilis)
ISBN: 960-05-0212-9, Turkish Edition: 9789750708695
Year published: - (Last Turkish publication 1981)
Publisher: Estia (http://www.hestia.gr) Turkey Istanbul: Yalçın Yayınları
Translation in Turkey: Ahmet Yorulmaz
Description:
Öğrenci olan Andrea`nın babası, sahilde müşterileri yalnızca denizciler olan bir kahvehane işletmektedir. Her gün, okuldan sonra babasının kahvesine gelip geç saatlere kadar kalan Andrea, hem oranın elli yıllık garsonunun, hem de kaptan ve tayfaların birbirlerine anlattıkları denizcilik öykülerini dinleyerek zamanını geçirmektedir. Denizciliğe tutkundur. Ancak, babasını ve iki kardeşini denizde kaybeden annesi oğlu Andrea`nın denizciliğe merak sarmaması için öğütlerde bulunmakta, "Eğer beni seviyorsan hiçbir zaman teknelere adım atmayacaksın. En güvenilmez şey denizdir oğlum,demektedir. Dedesinin, iki dayısının başına gelenlere karşın kahvehanede dinlediği denizcilik öyküleriyle Andrea çoktan denizciliğe gönül vermiştir. "Altın Post" söylencesinin etkisinde, içten içe onu gidip bulma isteğindedir. Kafasına iyiden iyiye yerleşmiş bu söylence Andrea`yı büyük bir maceraya sürükleyecektir. Ve bir gün, akşam alacasında Andrea`nın büyük macerası başlar...


Andrea's father runs a seaside cafe that is frequently visited by sailors. Every day after school Andrea goes to the cafe and spends his time listening to the maritime stories of the captains, the crew and the waiter, who has worked there for the last fifty years. Andrea is passionate about seamanship. However, his mother, whose father and two brothers has died at sea, warns him not to take an interest in the sea, saying that the sea is the least dependable thing and that he should never step onto a boat. Despite what has happened to his grandfather and uncles, thanks to the maritime stories he keeps listening to at the cafe, Andrea has long set his heart on seamanship. Influenced by the legend of “The Golden Hide”, he longs to go and find it. This legend is destined to lead him to a big adventure. His adventure starts one night at dusk…

Book Title: Biz İstanbullular Böyleyiz! Fener’den Anılar 1906-1922 Ta Konstantinu-Politika Ke Ala
Author: Haris Spataris
ISBN: 975-8704-71-0
Language: Turkish
Publisher: In Turkey Kitap Yayınevi, 2004, translation Iro Kaplangı
Description: Haris Spataris, 1906, İstanbul Fener doğumlu. Ailesi 1922’de Yunanistan’a göç etmiş. “Küçük Asya Felaketi”nden sonra, Mübadele İstanbul Rumlarını kapsamasa da, artık kendileri için bir gelecek olmadığını düşünen bazı Rumlar doğdukları şehri terk ediyorlar. İşte böyle bir siyasi geri planda dikkatli bir gözlemci Spataris. Bizlere, binaları yerinde kalsa da artık var olmayan bir dünyayı anlatıyor: Fener’in ara sokakları, evler, insanlar, vapurlar, sandallar, sandalcılar, patrikhanenin papazları, sokaklardaki havagazı lambalarını yakıp söndüren memurlar, mahallede yanan ilk elektrik ampulü, “dünyanın merkezi” Galata, gençliğinde onu heyecanlandıran Galata’nın kötü şöhretli evleri, Bolşevik devrimi sırasında Rus elçiliği önünde çatışan Ruslar, Rumların “tavan taburu” (askere gitmemek için tavan arasında saklananlar), Tünel’in onarılması, Rum cemaatinin ileri gelenleri. Rumların yemekleri, eğlenceleri, bayramları, hamam sefaları… Ayazmalar, yangınlar, tulumbacılar, sokak satıcıları, Ermeniler, Kürtler, Yahudiler… Bu kitap, Haris Spataris’in anlattığı Fener’in sokakları adım adım dolaşılarak hazırlandı. Döneme ait fotoğrafların yanı sıra günümüzü yansıtan fotoğraflara da yer verildi. Jacques Pervititch’in hazırladığı, Fener’e ait 1929 tarihli sigorta haritalarının birkaçı da kitaba eklendi.

Haris Spataris was born in 1906 in Fener, İstanbul. His family immigrated in 1922 from Greece. After the “Minor Asia Disaster”, some of the Greeks who did not see a future for themselves anymore, decided to leave the city where they were born in. The observant Spataris enters the scene in such a political environment. He tells us about a world which doesn’t exist anymore, even if the walls are still there. The side streets of Fener, houses, people, ships, boats, boatmen, the clergymen of patriarchate, men who switch off the gas lamps in the streets, the first electric bulb lit in the street, “the center of the world” Galata, certain houses in Galata with a bad reputation, which used to excite him in his youth, Russians fighting in front of the Russian Embassy during the Bolshevik Revolution, Russians, the Greeks “ceiling soldiers” (those who hid in the ceiling to avoid going to the army), the reparation of Tunel, the leading members of the Greek community. Greek food, their way of entertainment, bayrams, hamam sessions… The small churches, fires, tulumba sellers, street vendors, Armenians, Kurds, Jews…For this book, Fener district as narrated by Haris Spataris, has been thoroughly researched, inch by inch. The book includes photos from the past and present. It also includes some insurance maps from 1929 belonging to Fener prepared by Jacques Pervititch.

Yorum: Fener semtini keşfetmek için pek çok farklı gezi rehberi bulabilirsiniz ama semtin 1900’lerin başlarındaki sosyal yaşamını, sokaklarını samimi, mizah dolu ve olabildiğince tarafsız bir gözle anlatan başka bir kitap bulunabilir mi bilmiyorum. Fenerin eski sakinlerini tanımak ve semtin gayri resmi tarihini öğrenmek için ideal bir kitap.

Comment: One can find many tour guides to discover the Fener district but I don’t know if any other book exists which tells the district’s social life and street life in the beginning of 1900’s with such warmth, humor and objectivity. The book is ideal for getting to know the old residents of Fener and learn about the district’s unofficial past.

Stratis Myrivilis - Ζωή εν Τάφω - Hayat Mezarda

Greek original title: Ζωή εν Τάφω Zoi en Tafo
Turkish edition title: Hayat Mezarda (1968, 2006), Savaştan korkuyorum (1982)
English edition title: Life in a Tomb
Author: Stratis Myrivilis (Mirivilis)
ISBN: 960-05-0239-0, Turkish Edition: 975-571-136-8 English Editions: 1-932455-05-1
0-87451-391-Χ
Year published: 1924 (Last Turkish publication 2006)
Language: Greek - Turkish - English
Publisher: Estia (http://www.hestia.gr) Turkey Istanbul: Arıon Yayınevi
Translation in Turkey: Kriton Dinçmen
Description: This summary written by Stratis Myrivilis

Summary of the war book “Life in a tomb”
One student, full of patriotic and democratic ideals joins the revolution of the national defence and enlists the Archipelago Division, to fight «for freedom of the people and for the liberation of the enslaved Greeks and Democracy». His dreams turn into frustration with the barbarism he finds in the city of Monastirion in Serbia, and seeing what the allies have done to the Greek population of the city. Without faith in combat, without ideals, without believing in the honesty of war, he goes through a terrible crisis in the trench of the parapet of Monastirion, and describes the war with the sincerity of a man who faces death and does not want to lie neither to himself nor to others. After an adventurous life of battle, he is accidentally killed in a Bulgarian trench by a French flame-thrower. The book is a cry against the war between nations who do not hate each other, but are mobilized against each other by various political interests.

Stratis Myrivilis

Περίληψις του πολεμικού βιβλίου «Η Ζωή ένα Τάφω»
Ένας φοιτητής γεμάτος πατριωτικά ιδανικά και δημοκρατικά ιδεώδη προσχωρεί είς την επανάστασιν της Εθνικής Αμύνης και κατατάσσεται στην Μεραρχία Αρχιπελάγους δια να πολεμήσει «υπέρ της ελευθερίας των λαών και υπέρ της απελευθερώσεως των υποδούλων Ελλήνων και υπέρ της Δημοκρατίας». Τον περιμένουν αδιάκοπες διαψεύσεις των ονείρων του με τας βαρβαρότητας που ευρίσκει εις το Μοναστήριον της Σερβίας να κάμουν οι σύμμαχοι (υπέρ του οποίου επήγε να σκοτωθεί) είς βάρος του Ελληνικού πληθυσμού της πόλεως. Χωρίς πίστιν είς τον αγώνα πλέον, χωρίς ιδανικά, χωρίς να πιστεύει εις την τιμιότητα του πολέμου περνά τρομεράς κρίσεις μέσα εις το χαράκωμα της προκαλύψεως Μοναστηρίου, και περιγράφει την ζωήν του πολέμου με την ωμήν ειλικρίνιαν ανθρώπου ο οποίος ευρισκόμενος αντίκρυ στο θάνατο δεν θέλει να ψευσθεί ούτε προς τον εαυτόν του ούτε προς τους άλλους. Κατόπιν περιπετιεώδους πολεμικής ζωής σκοτώνεται κατά λάθος εις ένα βουλγαρικό χαράκωμα από ένα Γάλλον εξακοντιστήν του υγρού πυρός. Το βιβλίον είνε μια κραυγή εναντίον του πολέμου που γίνεται μεταξύ λαών που δε μισούνται αλλά κινητοποιούνται εναντίων αλλήλων από διάφορα πολιτικά συμφέροντα.

Στράτης Μυριβήλης

Various links:
http://worldliteratures.suite101.com/article.cfm/life_in_the_tomb
http://www.tulumba.com/storeItem.asp?ic=zBK339798DE587

Stratis Myrivilis - Vasilis o Arvanitis

Book title: Βασίλης ο Αρβανίτης, Vasilis o Arvanitis
Turkish title: Midilli'den Arnavut Vasil
English title: Vasilis o Arvanitis
Author: Stratis Myrivilis (Mirivilis)
ISBN: 960-05-0133-5, Turkish: 975-571-136-8, English: 0-85834-502-1
Year pubished: 1943 (Turkish publication 1997)
Language: Greek - Turkish
Publisher: Estia (http://www.hestia.gr) Turkey Istanbul: Belge.
Translation in Turkey: Cem Kaskarlı,
Description: A story at Ottoman times in Lesvos (Midilli) of Vasilis o Arvanitis. Giving the life and times of this hot blooded, young Greek through the brave short life he lived.

STRATIS MYRIBILIS was born in 1890 in the Skamia of Lesbos. Immediately after completing his circulars studies (1909) will start publishing the first literary texts in local forms of the island. In 1912 entered the University of Athens, the Faculty of Philosophy and Law, without ever taking a degree, a result of participating in the successive wars conducted by Greece at the time. Returning in 1923, after ten years of war, in Mitilini he produces the newspaper “Kampana”, in which he publishes in 42 issues the anti military novel “Life in a grave”. The 1932 he settles permanently in Athens with his family. In 1956 he is elected member of the Academy of Athens. Died on 19 July 1969. O Myrivilis Stratis, one of the leading representatives of the Generation of 30’s, gave us some of the greatest works of modern Greek prose of the twentieth century.

Stratis Myrivilis (1892)- (..1969) Asıl adı efstratios stamatopoulos olan, myrivilis midilli adasının kuzey sahilinde bulunan skamniya kentinde doğdu 1892 tarihinde. Lise öğrenimini tamamladığı midilli kentine gelene kadar köyünde kaldı. Atina üniversitesindeki hukuk öğrenimi balkan savaşları nedeniyle yarım kaldı. 1915 Yılında ilk yapıtını, “kızıl hikayeler”i yayınladı. Daha sonra birinci dünya savaşı ve türk-yunan savaşı sırasındaki deneyimleri, onun baş yapıtlarından biri sayıları ve 1924 yılında yayınlanan “mezarda hayat” adlı romanının temelini oluşturdu. Bu romanda savaşın bütün dehşeti yansır. 1933 Yılında “altın gözlü okul müdiresi”, 1949 yılında ise denizkızı madonna´yı yayınlanan “arnavut vasil” dışında iki kısa romanı daha olan myrivilis´in birçok kısa öyküsü daha bulunmakta. Myrivilis, italyan ve alman işgali karşısında direnişçi bir tavır sergiledi. 1943 Yılında alman işgali sırasında yayınlanan “arnavut vasil”de büyük bir heyecanla karşılandı. Myrivilis 1969 yılında atina´da öldü.

The Rough Guide to Turkey

Book Title: The Rough Guide to Turkey
Authors: Rosie Ayliffe, Marc Dubin, John Gawthrop and Terry Richardson
ISBN: 1-84353-071-6
Language: English
Year: This edition 2003, fifth edition
Publisher: Rough Guides http://www.roughguides.com
Description: One of the best all around book guides for Turkey, reliable, readable, practical.
With a very good section guide also on music

Nazim Hikmet - Poems of 9-10 am

Book Title: Poems of 9-10 am
Greek Title: Τα ποιήματα των 9-10
Author: Nazim Hikmet
ISBN: Greek edition: 960-310-112--5
Language: Greek, Turkish
Year: Greek 2000
Publisher: Themelio http://www.themelio-ekdoseis.gr/
Translation: to Greek, Petros Markaris
Description: Poems of Nazim Hikmet, from his imprisonment in Bursa, Turkey (Prousa) in 1945

Poem 24 September 1945

Η πιο ωραία θάλασσα:
αυτή που ακόμη δεν ταξιδέψαμε.
Το πιο ωραίο παιδί:
ακόμη δε μεγάλωσε
Οι πιο ωραίες μέρες μας:
αυτές που ακόμη δεν ζήσαμε...
Κι ο πιό ωραίος λόγος που θέλω να σου πω:
αυτός που ακόμη δεν σου είπα...

En güzel deniz:
Henüz gidilmemiş olanıdır.
En güzel çocuk:
Henüz büyümedi.
En güzel günlerimiz:
Henüz yaşamadıklarımız.
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Loxandra - Maria Iordanidou

Greek book title: Loxandra
Turkish title: Loksandra Istanbul Dusu
Author: Maria Iordanidou
ISBN: Greek edition 960-05-0138-6 , Turkish edition: 975-344-099-5
Type: Novel
Language: Greek, Turkish
Year: First edition 1966 Greece 1994 (Turkey)
Publisher: Turkey: Greece: Estia
Description:
The central person of the novel is Loxandra, a prototype of an anatolian Greek women of the Poli. The whole story occurs in Constandinople at the beggining of the 19th century. A nostalgic, view of a Greek family that lives at that time, and also describes many characters that mold the picture of Constandinople. Reading this book directly you live with Loxandras family, and shape in mind the style and life of that time.

Tό λάθος - Yanlış - Andonis Samarakis

Book title: Tό λάθος

Turkish title: Yanlış
Author: Andonis Samarakis
ISBN: 975-05-0439-9
Language: Turkish
Publisher: In Turkey İletişim Yayınları (http://www.iletisim.com.tr/), 2006, translation Ari Çokona
Description: Totaliter bir rejimin iki Gizli Servis ajanı, tutukladıkları şüpheliyi başkente sorguya götürmek için yola çıkarlar. Yolculuk başladığında, Merkez tarafından tüm detayları dikkatle hazırlanmış Plan da işlemeye başlar. Bundan böyle ajanlar resmî görevliler değil, "insan" rolüne bürünmüş birer dosttur. Başkente gitmek için feribota yetişme çabalarından kentte beraber çıktıkları gezintiye kadar her şey, şüphelinin kendini güvende hissetmesi için kurgulanmış Plan’ın parçalarıdır. Tutuklunun suçunu itiraf etmesi artık an meselesidir.Kahramanları, birbirine geçmiş çarklar arasında dâhice kurgulanmış psikolojik bir savaşla birbirlerine üstün gelmeye çalışırken; Yanlış, okuyanları Kafkavari bir kâbusa sürüklüyor. Kelimelerin artık anlamlarını yitirdiği, kavramların içinin boşaldığı günümüz dünyasını mizahi ve şiirsel bir dille yorumlayan, politikayla polisiyeyi alışılmadık bir üslup ve kurguyla birleştiren, birçok edebiyat ödülüne layık görülen sıradışı bir roman.

Two secret service agents of a totalitarian regime set out for the capital to interrogate the suspected detainee. Once the journey begins, the carefully designed plan developed by the Central Command proceeds. From now on, the agents are no longer government officials but have assumed their new roles as congenial friends on a journey. Everyday events such as catching the ferry boat and walking the city streets together are designed to reduce suspicions the detainee may have and foster trust. The detainee thus is expected to confess his crime at any moment.

As the fictional characters engage in their battle of wits in this ingeniously devised psychological war, “Mistake” pulls the reader towards a ‘Kafkaesque’ nightmare. This extraordinary, riveting, and award winning novel interprets today’s world, where words have lost meaning and concepts ring hollow, by using a humorous yet poetical style that combines both politics and detective with an unusual style.

Tsakitzis - Çakırcalı Efe - Yaşar Kemal

Greek book title: Ο Τσάκιτζης Tsakitzıs
Turkish original title: Çakırcalı Efe
Author: Yaşar Kemal
ISBN: Greek edition 960-325-114-3, Turkish edition: 9750807243
Language: Greek, Turkish
Year: First edition 1971 (Turkey) Greece 1994
Publisher: Turkey: Yendi Baski, Greece: Agra
Greek Translation: Thomas Korovinis
Description: The life and time's of the legendary Tsakirlatzi (Çakırcalı Efe) "Robin Hood", bandit, rebel in the late times (?-1910) of the Ottoman era. The most famous rebel-bandit, of all, that lived of the Aegean cost line of Asia Minor. His revolt against the Ottoman power, his actions against the rich, made him a legend, among the peasants and the poor, who could not fight and find justice with the state, and the money holders. This made him a legendary hero. His adventures, his passions, became myths, subjects for, popular booklets, Karagiozi, theatre, cinema, in both countries of Greece and Turkey. The author includes all the stories he heard, and read, and made this novel, the gives a good aspect, of his life, the region the many fights, killings, and his final death.
Comments: A book that shows the real life of the most famous Zeybek Tsakitzi. A sharp and very intelligent bandit, who escaped many times the attacks of the drafts of the Osmali forces,
and humiliated them countless times.

Aşil'in Nişanlısı - Fiancee of Akhilleus - Alki Zei

Book title: Η αρραβωνιαστικιά του Αχιλλέα - Aşil'in Nişanlısı-Fiancee of Akhilleus

Author: Alki Zei

ISBN: Greek: 9789600401806 Turkish: 9789754706178

Language: Greek, Turkish

Year: 1987, First Turkish edition 1997

Publisher: Kedros Greece, Turkey: İletişim Yayınları (http://www.iletisim.com.tr/), translation Kriton Dinçmen

Description: Alki Zei, is an author, a screenwriter, an old passive resister and one of the well known independent names of the left in Greece. Eleni is a fiction character. The adventures of Alki Zei and Eleni meet in this novel, Zei's real life story, Fiancee of Akhilleus, shares the stream of the same river and interrogate an adventure lived in the left side. Life like slogans, identities of leaders, legends and taboos...
Alki Zei, yazar, senarist, tiyatrocu, eski bir direnişçi, Yunanistan solunun bağımsız isimlerinden... Eleni, roman kahramanı... Alki Zei'nin serüveniyle Eleni'nin serüveni Aşil'in Nişanlısı'nda, yani Zei'nin "yaşanmış ve romanlaşmış" hayat hikayesinde birleşiyor, aynı nehrin yatağını paylaşıyor, "sol" şeritte yaşanmış bir serüveni sorguluyor: Sloganlaşmış hayatları, lider kimliklerini, efsaneleri, tabuları...

Το Χρονικό των Δέκα Ημερών - On Günün Günlügü - Agapi Molyviati - Venezi

Book title: Το Χρονικό των Δέκα Ημερών, Αiβαλί (Κυδωνίες) 1922
Turkish title: On Günün Günlügü
Author: Agapi Molyviati - Venezi
ISBN: Greek edition 978-960-201-189-8, Turkish edition: 975-9067-05-6
Language: Greek, Turkish
Year: First edition 1978
Publisher: ELIA (www.elia.org.gr) in Turkey Albatros Kitap, 2005, translation Kostas Sarioglou
Description: The personal testimony of Agapi Molyviati - Venezi the sister of the author, Ilias Venezis, about the 10 days she lived at the arrival of the Turkish army at Ayvali in 1922, witnessing all the incidents. And the exceptional, Turkish officer Kemalletin, who rescued her.
Comments: A painful book, that should be read both by Greek and Turks, to understand the darkness of the war, and the small light in the gap, enough for the next generation to follow.

Exerpt:
I do not know whether to pray or protest loud, whether to stay loyal to that taught or deny everything ... Why do humans have so much hate to humans?
Δεν ξέρω αν πρέπει να προσευχηθείς ή να βροντοφωνάξεις τη διαμαρτυρία σου, αν πρέπει να μείνεις πιστός σε ότι διδάχτηκες ή να αρνηθείς τα πάντα... Γιατί ο άνθρωπος έχει μισήσει τόσο πολύ τον άνθρωπο;

Ι shut my ears not to hear, not to hear voices. But these were no longer there. They penetrated deep inside…
Έκλεινα τα αυτιά μου να μην ακούω, να μην ακούω φωνές. Μα αυτές δε βρίσκονταν πια εκεί. Είχαν εισχωρήσει βαθιά.

Music of the Ottoman Court - Walter Feldman

Music of the Ottoman Court
Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire
Feldman, Walter

(Intercultural Music Studies Vol.: 10)
* 1996
* 560 p.
* 31 fig. and ill., 20 tab., 145 musical notations, index, bibliography
* Hc
* 13,5 x 21 cm
* engl.
* EUR 44,00
* ISBN 3-86135-641-4

Between 1600 and 1750 Ottoman Turkish music developed the genres and forms that were directly antecedent to the surviving Turkish art music, yet its relationship to this modern music is shrouded in myth. This work is the first attempt to bring together contemporaneous notations, musical treatises, biographics, literary sources, travellers' accounts and iconography to present a synthetic picture of the early modern phrase of Turkish art music.

Contents:
-Preface
-Introduction
-Turkish Classical Music and Ottoman Music
-Ethnomusicology and History in Ottoman Turkey
-The Structuring of the Book
-The Major Sources for Ottoman Music 1550-1750

Part I Musicians and Performance
Chapter 1-1 Professionalism and the Music of the Ottoman Court
The Ottomans and the Turco-Mongol Courtly Heritage
The Emergence of Ottoman Court Music
Vocalists and Instrumentalists
The Geographical Origin of the Musicians and Location of Musical Centers
Changes in the Ruling Class and in the Organization of Music in the Palace
Unfree Musicians
The kullar
The Persians (Acemler)
The "Franks" and Other Male Slaves
The Slave-Women
Free Musicians in the Palace Service and the Bureaucracy The �ilmîye (�ulemâ)
Chapter 1-2 Professionalism and the Music of the Ottoman Court: Dervishes and Turkish Art Music
The Mevleviye
The Mevlevi Conception of Music
The Mevlevis and Ottoman Court Music
Music in the Other Sunni tarikats
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Instruments and Instrumentalists
Sources for the Instrumentation of Ottoman Music
Organ und Genre
The Ottoman Court Ensemble of the 16th Century
The kemance
The 'd
The kopuz
The ney
The ceng
The kanun
The Ottoman Ensemble from the 17th to the Mid-18th Century
The kemance/keman
The ney
The tanbur
The Origin of the Ottoman tanbur
The Ottoman tanbur in the 18th Century
The ceng
The kanun
The santur
The musikar r/miskal
Social Contexts of the Turkish Lutes
Conclusion
Chapter 3 The Ottoman Cyclical Concert-Formats Fasil und Ayin
The Structure of the Ottoman fasil
The fasl-i szende
Structure of the fasl-i sazende
The Mevlevi ayin
Part II Makam

Chapter 1 The General Scale of 17th-Century Ottoman Music
Nomenclature of Scale Degree and Mode
Cantemir's General Scale
The Problem of the Note segah
Saba, Uzzal, Beyati, Hisar
Conclusion
A Note on Symbols
Chapter 2 Makam and Terkib
Other Modal Entities
Terkib and su�be Structures
The Terkib in the 18th Century
Chapter 3 Melodic Progression
Seyir in Compositions
Cantemir's Terminology for Melodic Progression
Hizir Aga and Harutin

Chapter 4 The Taksim and Modulation
The Generic Nature and Origin of the taksim
Turkish and Persian "taksim" in Cantemir's Treatise
Modulation and the taksim Modulation and the küll-i külliyat Genre
Conclusion
Part III Pesrev and Semasi
Chapter 1 The Pesrev/Pishrow
The pesrev as Genre
Origin and Stucure of the pesrev/pishrow
Generic Variation Within the Ottoman pesrev

Chapter 2 The Ottoman pesrev
Periodization of the Turkish pesrev
Factors Leading to Change in the Formal Structure of the pesrev
Usul, Tempo, Melodic Density
Modulation and Large Scale Form
Terkib and seyir
Conclusion

Chapter 3 Pesrevs and Analyses
Period 1 (1500-1550)
The Persians (�Acemler)
Osman Pasa el-�Atik
Period 2 (1550-1600)
Period 3 (1600-1650)
Period 4 (1650-1690)
Neyzen Ali Hoca
The pesrevs of Cantemir
Muhayyer muhammes
Buselik-�Asirani berefs an
Conclusion

Chapter 4 The 17th-Century Persian Pesrev
Pesrevs and Analyses

Chapter 5 Transmission of the Ottoman Pes rev Repertoire
Transmission of the pesrev during the 17 Century: Pesrevs and Analyses
The nazire
Conclusion
Transmission of the pesrev in the 18th Century
Fonton
Kevseri

Chapter 6 The Instrumental Semasi
Sema si-i sazende in the 17th Century
Periodization of the semasi-i sazende / saz semasi
Analysis of the 17th-Century semasi Documents
Semasi-i lenk / aksak semasi
Transformation of the Old semasi
Conclusion

Chapter 7 Conclusion
The Departure of Turkey from the "Persianate" Musical Sphere
The New Ottoman Style of the 18 Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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