A 1988 application for membership in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was refused because of the Turkish assimilation program, after widespread expectations of success.

The Leopard 2NG ( Next Generation ) is a privately funded Turkish upgrade by Aselsan that includes the application of more armour ( AMAP ), upgraded optics and a new fire control system on the work since 1995 and to be delivered by late 2011 which is intended to be used on new Altay MBT.

Dotless i ( and dotted capital I ) is handled problematically in the Turkish locales of several software packages, including Oracle DBMS, PHP, Java ( software platform ), and Unixware 7, where implicit capitalization of names of keywords, variables, and tables has effects not foreseen by the application developers.

Her application resulted in three judgments by the European Court of Human Rights ( Strasbourg ) which held Turkey responsible for human rights violations in the northern part of Cyprus, which is under overall control of the Turkish armed forces.

In the 16th century one such Turkish flight bow set the record for the longest shot, 846 metres ( 925 yards ), a record that stood until the 20th century and the application of modern material science.

* Russia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Bavaria join the Holy League against the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

In the east an Imperial army, now manned with veteran officers and men, had dispelled the Turkish threat and crushed Imre Thököly's revolt in Hungary ; while in the west and north, William of Orange was fast becoming the leader of a coalition of Protestant states, anxious to join with the Emperor and Spain, and end the hegemony of France.

Although sympathies of the overwhelmingly Greek population ( only Rhodes and Kos had Turkish communities ) leaned heavily towards Greece following its declaration of independence in 1822, the islanders did not join the Greek War of Independence, continuing instead a semi-autonomous existence as an archipelago of Greek merchants within the Ottoman Empire.

Not only was the region warmer, Polish gentry from the Russian partition would join in, and possible Turkish action against Russia could be supported, which was the most advantageous theater for the upcoming war.

In 1921, together with his friends Vâlâ Nûreddin ( Vâ-Nû ), Yusuf Ziya Ortaç and Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, he went to İnebolu in Anatolia in order to join the Turkish War of Independence ; from there he ( together with Vâlâ Nûreddin ) walked to Ankara, where the Turkish liberation movement was headquartered.

In Ankara they were introduced to Mustafa Kemal Pasha ( Atatürk ) who wanted the two friends to write a poem that would invite and inspire the Turkish volunteers in Constantinople and elsewhere to join their struggle.

Turkish aircraft join with Turkish Navy in sinking a Greek Cypriot torpedo boat which attempts to attack the approaching Turkish naval flotilla, and Turkish aircraft support the amphibious landing.

The Felicity Party's vote has been weakened by the success of the moderately Islamic Justice and Development Party government, although it has repeatedly condemned the Turkish government's desire to join the European Union, military ties with Israel and the United States.

Thus various pressure failed to bring the Turkish government to join the war during the period.

Although no longer organized under one leader, this inter-tribal force was “ actively anti-British ”, engaging in hit-and-run attacks, killing British military officers, and participating in another – left the Turkish ranks to join the Kurdish army.

Part II of the book begins by going around the world, time zone to time zone, showing what different characters are doing all at the same time: Morris Zapp travelling ; Australian Rodney Wainright trying to write a conference paper ; Zapp's ex-wife Désirée trying to write a novel ; Howard Ringbaum trying to convince his wife Thelma to sleep with him on an airplane so he can join the Mile High Club ; Siegfried von Turpitz talking to Arthur Kingfisher about the new UNESCO chair of literary criticism ; Rudyard Parkinson plotting to get that chair ; Turkish Akbil Borak reading William Hazlitt to prepare for a visit by Swallow ; Akira Sakazaki translating English novelist Ronald Frobisher into Japanese ; Ronald Frobisher having breakfast ; Italian Fulvia Morgana ( a reference to Morgan le Fay ) meeting Morris Zapp on a plane ; and more .`

At the age of 13 he was sent to Vienna, where he spent two years, and afterward, he traveled to Serbia, where he volunteered to join the fight Austrian Empire forces against the Ottoman Empire ( the Great Turkish War ).

As he disagreed with the new constitution determined by the sultan, he went in 1920 to Ankara to join Mustafa Kemal by the Turkish Independence Movement.

He was one of the 15 Communists that went to Turkey to join the Turkish War of Independence.

" He was cautious on the question of the inevitability of Turkish membership, stating that he did not " believe in historic determinism ," but that if negotiations were begun, " underpinned by the commitment that will be able to join EU once it fulfils all conditions, it will join as soon as it does meet the conditions.

On 13 January 2010, Neill agreed to join Turkish side Galatasaray.

On 9 June 2010, the 28 year-old Burkinabé defender left Charleroi SC to join Turkish side Konyaspor on a 3-year contract.

In January 2011, Youla join Turkish club Orduspor.

The journalist Gottfried Stein relates former lieutenant in the Turkish Army Yener Soylu as describing the process of persuading some villagers to join the village guards:

His father established a small school near the Abdin Palace where European, Arab and Turkish masters taught Abbas and his brother Prince Mehemet Ali.

Mehmet Barış Manço ( also spelled Boris Mancho in some European album releases ), born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço, ( January 2, 1943-February 1, 1999 ) was a Turkish rock singer, composer, and television producer.

Mesnager ( 1717 ), in which he impersonates Nicolas Mesnager, the French plenipotentiary who negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht ( 1713 ) and A Continuation of the Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy ( 1718 ), a satire on European politics and religion, professedly written by a Muslim in Paris.

The Gallipoli peninsula (; ; ) is located in Turkish Thrace ( or East Thrace ), the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east.

The big European powers saw the war of Greek independence, with its accounts of Turkish atrocities, in a romantic light ( see, for example, the 1824 painting Massacre of Chios by Eugène Delacroix ).

In July 1860, with European intervention threatening, the Turkish government tried to quiet the strife, but Napoleon III of France sent 7, 000 troops to Beirut and helped impose a partition: The Druze control of the territory was recognized as the fact on the ground, and the Maronites were forced into an enclave, arrangements ratified by the Concert of Europe in 1861.

Whilst the English term resembles the French marbre, most other European languages ( e. g. Spanish mármol, Italian marmo, Portuguese mármore, German, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish marmor, Armenian marmar, Dutch marmer, Polish marmur, Turkish mermer, Czech mramor and Russian мрáмор ) follow the original Greek.

After his victory in the Battle of Mohács in 1526, he established Turkish rule in the territory of present-day Hungary ( except the western part ) and other Central European territories, ( See also: Ottoman – Hungarian Wars ).

It was by his advice and that of a contemporary Turkish statesman that the celebrated corps of Janissaries was formed, an institution which European writers erroneously fix at a later date, and ascribe to Murad I.

Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks is scarce, but they take their Turkish name, Osmanlı ( corrupted in European languages as " Ottoman "), from the house of Osman I ( reigned ca.

Today, based on the Ottoman archives, we know that his full name was " Hadji Ahmed Muhiddin Piri " and that he was born either in Gelibolu ( Gallipoli ) on the European part of the Ottoman Empire ( in present-day Turkish Thrace ), or in Karaman ( his father's birthplace ) in central Anatolia, then the capital of the Beylik of Karaman ( annexed by the Ottoman Empire in 1487 ).

The Ehl-i Hiref attracted the empire's most talented artisans to the Sultan's court, both from the Islamic world and recently conquered territories in Europe, resulting in a blend of Islamic, Turkish and European cultures.

* Slovenia has observer status, like the United States, in ( the Turkish proposed ) Multinational Peacekeeping Force Southeast European ( MPFSEE ), with other participants being Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, the Republic of Macedonia, Romania, and Turkey ;

The conflict continues to overshadow Turkish relations with Greece and with the European Union.

The largest of them, at Tashkent, is linked with European and Middle Eastern cities by direct flights of Aeroflot, Lufthansa, Transaero, and Turkish Airlines, and with New York and Los Angeles via connecting flights through Moscow.

* Illustrations of Ottoman Turkish and European riflemen, with detailed illustrations of their firearms, appear in Zhao Shizhen's book Shenqipu in this year, during the Ming Dynasty of China.

Tavuk göğsü, a Turkish dish still in use today, is made with shredded chicken, as was the medieval European dish.

It included various percussion instruments, often adopted in European military music ( as ' Janissary music ') The pitched bass drum is still known in some languages as the Turkish Drum.

* After turning aside south for 15 years to invade the Caucasus, Asia Minor and Persia — united now under Batu Khan with representatives of all 4 khanates leading 150, 000 Mongol, Turkish and Persian troops into Europe, resume the European invasion with the resumption of Mongol invasion of Rus ' foreshadowed by.

After the southern, Greek speaking part of Cyprus became a member of the European Union in 2004, it adopted the Euro as its currency on January 1, 2008, replacing the previously used Cypriot Pound ; whilst the northern area continued to use the Turkish Lira and on January 1, 2008 the New Turkish Lira.

The form Tartar has its origins in either Latin or French, coming to Western European languages from Turkish and Persian Tātār (" mounted courier, mounted messenger ; postrider ").

The whole Serbian cuisine is derived from a mixture of influences coming from the Mediterranean ( Greek and Italian ), Central European ( Hungarian and Austrian ) and Turkish cuisines.