In acknowledgment of the Turkish Cypriot community's support for reunification, however, the EU made it clear that trade concessions would be reached to stimulate economic growth in the north, and remains committed to reunification under acceptable terms.

A minority of students – such as David Sox – are, however, suspicious of the apparent ' Turkish ' features of the Italian manuscript ; especially the Arabic annotations, which they adjudge to be so riddled with elementary errors as to be most unlikely to have been written in Istanbul ( even by an Italian scribe ).

Prince Menshikov called the attention of the Turks to the fact that during the Russo-Turkish War ( 1768 – 1774 ), the Russians had occupied the Turkish controlled provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia on the north bank of the Danube River, but he reminded them that pursuant to the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, however, the Russians had returned these " Danubian provinces " to Ottoman control in exchange for the right to protect the Christian sites in the Holy Land.

In languages such as Turkish, however, such an approach is not possible, as each dictionary entry has thousands of possible word forms.

In his adaptation, however, she bore the title Turandot, meaning “ Turkish Daughter ,” the nineteen-year-old daughter of Altoun Khan, the Mongol emperor of China.

By the late 17th century, however, the Ottoman Empire's military misfortunes caught up with the country, and the conclusion of the Great Turkish War with the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 once again made Bosnia the empire's westernmost province.

The Tafas massacre was filmed in Ouarzazate, Morocco, with Moroccan army troops substituting for the Turkish army ; however, Lean was unable to film as much as he wanted because the soldiers were uncooperative and impatient.

In 1908, Frankel sold the diamond for $ 400, 000 to a Salomon or Selim Habib, a wealthy Turkish diamond collector, reportedly in behalf of Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey ; however, on June 24, 1909, the stone was included in an auction of Habib's assets to settle his own debts, and the auction catalog explicitly stated that the Hope Diamond was one of only two gems in the collection which had never been owned by the Sultan.

According to Turkish law, still in force today, he is subject to the authority of the Republic of Turkey ; however, Turkey allows the Standing Synod of Metropolitan Bishops to elect the Patriarch.

In its early days the Turkish state promoted a rival Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate, whose congregation, however, has remained limited.

Lewis D. Eigen and others have, however, observed that the conditions were aimed by the Turkish secular state at Muslim radicals, who, they believe, would preach hate and terror if allowed to control their own religious seminaries ; the Christians were caught in the " crossfire.

Denmark, however, did not provide much protection to Iceland, which was raided in 1627 by an Ottoman pirate kill fleet that abducted almost 300 Icelanders into slavery, in the episode known as the Turkish Abductions.

The main language spoken in Nagorno-Karabakh is Armenian ; however, Karabakh Armenians speak a dialect of Armenian which is considerably different from that which is spoken in Armenia as it is layered with Russian, Turkish and Persian words.

Although some genuine Turkish kilij sabres were used by Westerners, most " mameluke sabres " were manufactured in Europe ; their hilts were very similar in form to the Ottoman prototype, however, their blades, even when an expanded yelman was incorporated, tended to be longer, narrower and less curved than those of the true kilij.

Asbridge, however, fails to note that the recent Turkish conquests of Anatolia and southern Syria had shattered the tense but relatively stable balance of power that a somewhat revived Byzantine Empire had gradually developed with earlier Islamic powers over the course of the 10th and early 11th century.

The dispute however was finally shifted from a colonial dispute to an ethnic dispute between the Turkish and the Greek islanders.

Evelyn stayed in England, however, and Bennett's immersion in Turkish affairs and his relationship with Winifred Beaumont, an English woman living in Turkey, placed increasing strain on the marriage, and in 1924, Evelyn sued for divorce.

It has, however, become clear that Loti was in fact the victim of a cruel hoax by three prosperous Turkish women.

According to article 96 of the Turkish Constitution, unless otherwise stipulated in the Constitution, the Turkish Grand National Assembly shall convene with at least, one-third of the total number of members ( 184 out of 550 ) and shall take decisions by an absolute majority of those present ; however, the quorum for decisions can, under no circumstances, be less than a quarter plus one of the total

Not all pitches of 72-tone equal temperament are available on the Turkish kanun, however, since kanun makers only affix mandals for intervals that are demanded by performers.

As such, it was long used in Greek, Turkish and the Slavic languages to describe the lands of that empire ; however, following the conquest of Anatolia by the Ottoman Empire and the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmet II, it was applied to the southern Balkan regions of the Ottoman Empire, which remained primarily Christian.

A major defeat followed in 1922, however, when the Turkish revolutionaries defeated and expelled the Greeks from Anatolia during the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919-1922 ).

And, after becoming the right-hand man of Enver Pasha, he is sent by the latter to pave the way for a new Turkish Empire embracing `` the union of all Turks throughout Central Asia from Adrianople to the Chinese oases on the Silk Trade Route ''.

However, since Anatolia is now often considered to be synonymous with Asian Turkey, its eastern and southeastern borders are widely taken to be the Turkish borders with the neighboring countries, which are Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, in clockwise direction.

The Turkish word Mart is given after the name of Mars the god.

* 1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital.

To the southwest of the range is the Armenian Plateau, which slopes southwestward toward the Araks River on the Turkish border.

* 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.

In Turkish, Germany is Almanya and German is Alman, and in Persian Germany is Almaan, and German is Almaani.

Again, this difference is much more obvious to a Turkish speaker, for whom and are separate phonemes, than to an English speaker, for whom they are allophones of a single phoneme.

The ablative in Turkish (- den hali or uzaklaşma hali ) is expressed through the suffixes-den ,-dan ,-ten, or-tan.

* 1824 – The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces.

Aegospotami ( Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί ) or Aegospotamos ( i. e. Goat Streams ) is the ancient Greek name for a small river issuing into the Hellespont ( Modern Turkish Çanakkale Boğazı ), northeast of Sestos.

Aegospotami is located on the Dardanelles, northeast of the modern Turkish town of Sütlüce, Dardanelles ( the ancient Greek Galata, Thrace, modern Turkish: tr: Sütlüce, Gelibolu ).

The name Afyon Kara Hisar ( literally opium black castle in Turkish ), since opium was widely grown here and there is a castle on a black rock.

Nowadays Afyon is known for its marble ( in 2005 there were 355 marble quarries in the province of Afyon producing high quality white stone ), its sucuk ( spiced sausages ), its kaymak ( meaning either cream or a white Turkish Delight ) and various handmade weavings.

There is also a long string of roadside kiosks selling the local Turkish delight.

It is located in the modern Turkish province of Çanakkale.

It is through the most active of these connective routes, the Turkish Straits, that the Black Sea joins the world ocean.

Bursa is also home to some of the most famous Turkish dishes such as İskender kebap, specially candied marron glacés, peaches and lokum.

Bursa is the center of the Turkish automotive industry.

A 114-kilometer link between eastern Bulgaria and the Turkish border is scheduled for completion in 2013.