Asaf Savaş Akat, a famous economist in Turkey, played saxophone, and guitarist Ender Enön made his own guitar because it was difficult to find a real one on the market in those years.

İskender kebab is one of the most famous meat foods of northwestern Turkey and takes its name from its inventor, İskender Efendi ( İskender meaning ' Alexander '), who lived in Bursa in the late 19th century.

) The first and perhaps most famous plate was the Wild Turkey.

Later in 1911, he journeyed to the Balkans and visited Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, filling sketchbooks with renderings of what he saw, including many famous sketches of the Parthenon, whose forms he would later praise in his work Vers une architecture ( 1923 ) (" Towards an Architecture ," but usually translated into English as " Towards a new Architecture ").

Marmaris on the Turkish Riviera | Turquoise Coast of Turkey, which is famous for its Blue Cruise voyages with gulet type schooner s.

During President Garfield's limited tenure, he appointed several ambassadors, notably James R. Lowell as U. S. minister to England ; and the famous author of Ben-Hur and former Union Civil War general, Lew Wallace, as U. S. minister to Turkey.

Trabzon is famous throughout Turkey for its anchovies called hamsi, which are the main meal in many restaurants in the city.

Entertainment at Turkey Trot has ranged in recent years from famous acts like John Conlee, singer of " Rose Colored Glasses ," and Jeannie Kendall from the Grammy-award winning group The Kendalls, to more local entertainment by area groups such as The Muddles, South 14, Joe Sasser and Friends, and Carnes McCormack.

The festival is famous for its Turkey sandwiches and Strawberry Shortcake.

In Meerhout some famous people have lived, like Kate Ryan ( well known in France and Belgium, The UK, Turkey, Spain and the rest of western Europe ).

His crowning achievement was the great victory near the Dvina River in the Battle of Kircholm ( modern Salaspils, Latvia ) on September 27, 1605, when with barely 4000 troops, mostly the famous heavy hussars, he annihilated a threefold larger Swedish army ; for which feat he received letters of congratulation from the Pope, all the Catholic potentates of Europe, and even the sultan of Turkey and the shah of Persia.

His poetry departs from his more serious sociological works, though it too harnesses nationalist sentiment: " Run, take the standard and let it be planted once again in Plevna / Night and day, let the waters of the Danube run red with blood ...." Perhaps his most famous poem was his 1911 Turan, which served to compliment his Turanist intellectual output: " For the Turks, Fatherland means neither Turkey, nor Turkestan ; Fatherland is a large and eternal country -- Turan!

Oğuz Yılmaz ( born October 25, 1968 ) is a famous folk musician in Turkey.

İstiklal Avenue or Istiklal Street ( Turkish: İstiklâl Caddesi, French: Grande Rue de Péra, English: Independence Avenue ) is one of the most famous avenues in Istanbul, Turkey, visited by nearly 3 million people in a single day over the course of weekends.

It was equally as famous to the Iranian-speaking world and from Turkey to India is called Chinar, Chenar or related names, following the Iranian.

Arto Tunçboyacıyan is a well known Turkish musician of Armenian descent, who is famous in Turkey and worldwide, and currently has his own jazz club in Yerevan, Armenia.

In pop music, Suzan Yakar and Udi Hrant Kenkulian were famous cabaret singers in Turkey during the 1920s and 1930s.

Some of the most famous Kurd Musicians in Turkey are: Şivan Perwer, Rojda, Reşo, Mikail Aslan, Ahmet Aslan, Metin Kahraman, Kemal Kahraman, Aynur Doğan, Ahmet Kaya, Heme Haci, Nizamettin Aric, Xelil Xemgin and Ibrahim Tatlises.

The Pertuis d ' Antioche owes its name to the similarity of the contour of its coastline with that of the Mediterranean sea's north-eastern area between Cyprus, Syria and Turkey, which harbours the famous ancient city of Antioch at its center.

Ömür Bozacısı of Bursa, Karakedi Bozacısı of Eskişehir, Akman Boza Salonu of Ankara and Soydan of Pazarcık, Bilecik are less famous but well known other vendors in Turkey.

He facilitated the now-celebrated visit of Robert Langlands to Turkey ( now famous for the Langlands program, among many other things ); during which Langlands worked out some arduous calculations on the epsilon factors of Artin L-functions.

The town of Yatağan in southwest Turkey ( now in Denizli province ) was famous for its yataghansmithing and is considered folclorically as the birthplace of yataghans.

Until recently, San Marino's international record was one of almost total failure, with famous draws against Turkey and Latvia being the only partial successes in an international career that contains over 70 defeats.

And finally there is table seating down the third base line as part of the famous " Turkey Mike's BBQ Area ".

The current resistance to Russian rule has its roots in the late 18th century ( 1785 – 1791 ), a period when Russia expanded into territories formerly under the dominion of Turkey and Persia ( see also the Russo-Turkish Wars and Russo-Persian War ( 1804 – 1813 )), under Mansur Ushurma — a Chechen Naqshbandi ( Sufi ) Sheikh — with wavering support from other North Caucasian tribes.

* 1273 – December – Followers of the recently deceased Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi establish the Sufi order of the Whirling Dervishes in the city of Konya ( in present-day Turkey ).

* December – Followers of the recently deceased Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi establish the Sufi order of the Whirling Dervishes in the city of Konya ( in present-day Turkey ).

The Mawlaw ' īyya / Mevlevi Order, or the Mevlevilik / Mevleviye (-Molavīyeh ) is a Sufi order founded in Konya ( in present-day Turkey ) by the followers of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi, a 13th-century

Following the ban on Sufi orders in the Republic of Turkey, the Bektashi community's headquarters was moved from Hacıbektaş in central Anatolia to Tirana, Albania.

The whirling dance or Sufi whirling that is proverbially associated with Dervishes is best known in the West by the practices ( performances ) of the Mevlevi order in Turkey, and is part of a formal ceremony known as the Sama.

In 1925, Turkey ordered the dissolution of all Sufi fraternities by decree, the Mevleviyah managed to survive among small villages throughout the Middle East.

Bijapur developed into a cosmopolitan city, and it attracted many scholars, artists, musicians, and Sufi saints from Rome, Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Turkestan.

The Sufi services best known in the West are the chanting and rhythmic dancing of the whirling dervishes or Mevlevi Sufis of Turkey.

Modern day Sufi shaykhs with large followers in Turkey include Shaykh Mehmet Effendi ( residing in Istanbul ) and Mawlana Sheikh Nazim Al-Haqqani who resides in Lefka, North Cyprus.

Bijapur ( Kannada form of the Sanskrit Vidyapur or Vidyanagari ) became a cosmopolitan city, and it attracted many scholars, artists, musicians, and Sufi saints from Turkey, Persia ( Iran ) Iraq, Turkey, Turkestan, etc.

The Khalwati order ( also known as Khalwatiyya, Khalwatiya, or Halveti, as it is known in Turkey ) is an Islamic Sufi brotherhood ( tariqa ).

The time of greatest popularity for Khalwati order was during the thirty-year reign of “ Sufi Bayazid ” ( 1481 – 1511 ) in Ottoman Turkey.

Although the Sufi orders are now abolished in the Republic of Turkey, the above are almost all now mosques and / or places of visitation by Muslims for prayer.

* Sufi Music of Turkey, with Suleyman Erguner, Mahmoud Tabrizi Zadeh, Bruno Caillat, 1990

MFÖ represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, in 1985 with Didai Didai Dai ( placed 14 ) and in 1988 with Sufi ( placed 15 ), both written and performed by themselves.

Also on 30 September 2007, Turkey celebrated Rumi ’ s eight-hundredth birthday with a giant Whirling Dervish ritual performance of the samāʿ, which was televised using forty-eight cameras and broadcast live in eight countries.

* Whirling Dervishes from Turkey, with Kemal Evren, Tugrul Inancer, Aram Kerovpyan, Muzzffereddîn Ozak, Hafiz Kemâl Ozmutlu, Mahmud Tabrîzîzade, 1981

His books in English include two collections of his poems (" Shadows of Love ", published in Canada, and " A Last Lullaby ", published in the United States ), Contemporary Turkish Literature, Modern Turkish Drama, Living Poets of Turkey, three books of the 13th century Anatolian mystic folk poet Yunus Emre, Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes ( with Metin And ), Suleiman the Magnificent-Poet, Turkish Legends and Folk poems, Tales of Nasreddin Hodja, and others.