In the first, the regent John Kantakouzenos married his daughter Theodora to Orhan and employed Ottoman warriors against the rival forces of the queen dowager, allowing them to loot Thrace.

After the Byzantine defeat of the Battle of Pelekanon, Orhan developed friendly relations with Andronicus III Palaeologus, and maintained them with some of his successors.

Some of them recall the political novels and Mario Vargas Llosa, or " The Museum of Innocence " by Orhan Pamuk.

The subsequent years witnessed the gradual extinction of Byzantine rule in Asia Minor, as Orhan of the Ottoman Turks, who had already defeated Andronikos III at Pelekanos in 1329, took Nicaea in 1331 and Nicomedia in 1337.

Instead of aiming to gain land from non-Muslims, Orhan took over a Turkish principality, Karesi ( present Balikesir and surrounds ).

Although Osman did not physically participate in the battle, the victory at Bursa proved to be extremely vital for the Ottomans as the city served as a staging ground against the Byzantines in Constantinople, and as a newly adorned capital for Osman's son, Orhan.

Each of these two contestants for power was continually soliciting Orhan's aid against the other, and Orhan supported whichever side would benefit the Ottomans.

Turkish laws such as Article 301, that state " a person who publicly insults Turkishness, or the Republic or Turkish Grand National Assembly of Turkey, shall be punishable by imprisonment ", were used to criminally charge the writer Orhan Pamuk with disrespecting Turkey, for saying that " Thirty thousand Kurds, and a million Armenians, were killed in these lands, and nobody, but me, dares to talk about it.

The leftists also are very critical of the party's continuous opposition to the removal of Article 301 of Turkish penal code ; which caused people to be prosecuted for " insulting Turkishness " including Nobel Winner author Orhan Pamuk, Elif Şafak, and the conviction of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, its attitude towards the minorities in Turkey, as well as its Cyprus policy.

Notable features of the magazine include head-to-head debates between two writers with opposing views on a subject ; roundtable discussions, in which a series of experts with varying views on a given topic meet for a discussion, an edited transcript of which is published in the magazine ; and interviews with major political and cultural figures ( recent examples include Orhan Pamuk, Paul Wolfowitz, and Craig Venter ).

Orhan decided to pursue war against Europe, Anatolian Turks were settled in and around Gallipoli to secure it as a springboard for military operations in Thrace against the Byzantines and Bulgarians.

Popular legend has it that the two characters are actually based on two real persons who worked either for Osman I — the founder of the Ottoman dynasty — or for his successor Orhan I, in the construction of a palace or possibly a mosque at Bursa in the early 14th century.

Just for the Hell of It: 111 Poems by Orhan Veli Kanık.

Oktay Rıfat has explained with his says " Orhan lived in his very short lifetime a poetry adventure for a few generations of French poets.

* Just for the Hell of It — a website with many of Orhan Veli's poems, as translated by Talat Sait Halman

Kars was also the setting for the popular novel Snow by Orhan Pamuk.

It is located in Ankara and was designed by architects Professor Emin Onat and Assistant Professor Ahmet Orhan Arda, whose proposal beat 48 other entries from several countries in a competition held by the Turkish Government in 1941 for a " monumental mausoleum " for Atatürk.

In December 2005, he visited Turkey to attend the trial against Orhan Pamuk and speak at an event for the Greens of Turkey.

Other writers, such as Orhan Pamuk, write directly in English for a wider international audience.

However, the Byzantines were not the only ones to suffer from the Ottoman advancement for, in the mid-1330s, Orhan annexed the Turkish beylik of Karasi.

Orhan Ak ( born 29 September 1979 ) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Elazığspor in the Süper Lig.

Orhan is a Turkish given name for males.

On 13 September 2008, he came on as a substitute for Orhan Mustafi during Basel's 2 – 0 defeat of FC Lucerne at St. Jakob-Park, to make his 200th league appearance for Basel.

Orhan, with the help of Jihad commanders at the head of his forces of light cavalry, started a series of conquests of Byzantine territories in northwest Anatolia.

Orhan did not continue with any other conquests in Anatolia except taking over Ankara from the commercial-religious fraternity guild of Ahis.

Orhan was against the Venetians, whose fleets and piratical raids were disrupting his seaward provinces, and who had met his diplomatic overtures with contempt.

The Venetians were allies of John VI, so Orhan sent an auxiliary force across the straits to Galata, which there co-operated with the Genoese.

The emperor pleaded with his son-in-law Orhan to meet personally and discuss the matter, but the request was either rejected or could not be carried out due to Orhan's age and ill health.

Orhan was very much upset by this kidnapping and conducted talks with his brother-in-law and now single Byzantine Emperor John V Palaeologos.

" Among the award's recipients are several future Nobel Prize in Literature laureates, including Herta Müller ( 1998 winner with The Land of Green Plums ) and Orhan Pamuk ( 2003 winner with My Name Is Red ).

The Ottoman Dynasty ( or the Imperial House of Osman ) () ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 to 1922, beginning with Osman I ( not counting his father, Ertuğrul ), though the dynasty was not proclaimed until Orhan Bey declared himself sultan.

* In Orhan Pamuk's novel Snow, the character Ka thinks of a poem, while conversing with another character Necip.

Byzantine Emperor John V was forced to sign an unfavorable treaty with Orhan in 1356 that recognized his Thracian losses.

Orhan Veli ' works which digress of traditions although was responded to with fun and insult later, wonder and being out of it before, always aroused interest.

Although he stands out with his poetries which he has written in period of Garip, Orhan Veli had abstained to write " the single species " poetries.

Although howsoever he looms large with his poetries which he has written in Garip period, Orhan Veli had refrained to write " the single kind " of poetries.

* Poems By Orhan Veli — a website with Orhan Veli's poems, as translated by Murat Nemet Nejat

When Orhan succeeded his father, he proposed to his brother, Alaeddin, that they should share the emerging empire.

Orhan then told him, " Since, my brother, thou will not take the flocks and the herds that I offer thee, be thou the shepherd of my people ; be my Vizier.

* Adnan Veli ( 1916 – 1972 ), Turkish journalist, brother of poet Orhan Veli

* Şevket Pamuk-Professor of Economic History, Former President of European Historical Economics Society, brother of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk