In the closing stages of the match, with the ball out of play, Turkish defender Hakan Ünsal kicked a ball towards Rivaldo, who was waiting at the corner flag.

Zurab Khizanishvili (; born 6 October 1981 ) is a Georgian footballer who plays for Turkish club Kayserispor as a defender.

This action achieved two positive results for the Turkish military government at the time: 1 ) the Kyrgyz being the Turkic cousins of the Turks, their presence in Kurdish regions of eastern Turkey would water down the native Kurdish hold in the area ; 2 ) it would present Turkey as the " defender of all Turkic peoples ," at the expense of the Kurds.

The most high profile of the imports was Turkish international defender Alpay Özalan, recruited from English Premier League side Aston Villa.

Another import was Turkish player Rahim Zafer, a former Turkish international defender who was in the twilight of his career.

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

The Renaissance sarcophagus of Nicholas, Graf von Salm ( defender of Vienna during the Turkish siege in 1529 ) stands in the baptistry.

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

He got into a brawl with a Turkish defender and left the pitch showing the scars of battle.

*" Troy lost its best defender " " Turkish Daily News " tribute ( in English )

Cihan Can ( born on August 1, 1986 ) is a Turkish football defender.

Kamil Zayatte (; born 7 March 1985 ) is a Guinean footballer who plays for Turkish club İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor as a defender.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Eugene was in his pajamas and dressing gown, and on his large feet he wore yellow Turkish slippers that turned up at the toes.

However, following the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, Anatolia was defined by the Turkish government as being effectively co-terminous with Asian Turkey.

The Osmanli ruler Osman I was the first Turkish ruler who minted coins in his own name in 1320s, for it bears the legend " Minted by Osman son of Ertugul ".

His real name was Muhammad bin Da ' ud Chaghri, and for his military prowess, personal valour, and fighting skills he obtained the surname Alp Arslan, which means " Heroic Lion " in Turkish.

While the Byzantine Empire was to continue for nearly another four centuries, and the Crusades would contest the issue for some time, the victory at Manzikert signalled the beginning of Turkish ascendancy in Anatolia.

Ahmed I ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد اول Aḥmed-i evvel, ) or Ahmed Bakhti ( April 18, 1590 – November 22, 1617 ) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617.

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Ahmed III ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 30 / 31, 1673 – July 1, 1736 )</ span > was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 87 ).

The reign of Ahmed III, which had lasted for twenty-seven years, although marked by the disasters of the Great Turkish War, was not unsuccessful.

He was a cultivated patron of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first printing press authorized to use the Arabic or Turkish languages was set up in Constantinople, operated by Ibrahim Muteferrika ( while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all works published before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew ).

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

This was because in 1448, while Skanderbeg was victoriously fighting off the Turkish invasions, three military columns, commanded by Demetrio Reres along with his sons Giorgio and Basilio, were dispatched to help Alfonso V defeat the barons of Naples who had rebelled against him.

After the Ottoman conquest of Greece, the Parthenon was used as the garrison headquarters of the Turkish army, and the Erechtheum was turned into the Governor's private Harem.

His relics, now consisting of only his skull, are venerated in the Church of St. Titus, Heraklion, Crete to which it was returned in 1966 after being removed to Venice during the Turkish occupation.

In 1529-1530 he was also charged with reinforcing certain city fortifications in response to the Turkish threat.

He and his family were pensioned and one of them aided in the defence of Aegina against the Turks, in 1537, was captured with his family and died in a Turkish dungeon.

The republic should pay a bakshish to the Turkish governor of the Morea and to the Voevode who was stationed at the frontier of Thermisi ( opposite Hydra ).

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.

The city was known as Afyon ( opium ), until the name was changed to Afyonkarahisar by the Turkish Parliament in 2004.

During the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919-1922 ) campaign ( part of the Turkish War of Independence ) Afyon and the surrounding hills were occupied by French, Italian and then Greek forces.

Before the dispute started in 1964 the peoples of Cyprus ( then 77 % Greek Cypriots, 18 % Turkish Cypriots, 5 % other nationalities, including Armenians and Maronites ) were dispersed over the entire island.

He became a four-star general and served three years as vice chairman of the Turkish Armed Forces, then appointed commander of the Turkish First Army, in Istanbul.

On April 12, 2012, Bir and 30 other officers were taken in custody for their role in the 1997 military memorandum that forced the then Turkish government, led by the Islamist Welfare Party, to step down.

In the late 16th century many anti-Trinitarians, persecuted both by Calvinists and by the Inquisition, sought refuge in Transylvania, then under Turkish overlordship and with close links to Istanbul.

In February of 2012, it was reported in Turkish newspapers that another Syriac manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas had been found in Cyprus in 2000, in an operation conducted by police against smugglers ; and, having been kept in a police repository since then, had been deposited in the Ethnography Museum of Ankara.

In 1918, the historical region of Mesopotamia ( then a province within the Ottoman Empire ) was brought under British rule after the Turkish defeat in World War I.

His American Fur Company purchased ten tons of Turkish opium, then shipped the contraband item to Canton on the packet ship Macedonian.

Turkish inscriptions dated earlier than the Orkhon inscriptions used about 150 symbols, which may suggest tamgas at first imitating the Chinese script and then gradually refined into an alphabet.

The general diffusion of Turkish populations over Anatolia, before Osman's time, was in main part a push from the Mongol conquest of Central Asia, Iran and then East Anatolia.

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 name of the city was preserved at first by a Turkish village on the nearby plain, Philibedjik ( Filibecik, " Little Filibe " in Turkish ), which has since disappeared and then by a Greek village in the mountains.

Sufis have spanned several continents and cultures over a millennium, at first expressed through Arabic, then through Persian, Turkish and a dozen other languages.

In 1484, the Turks invaded and captured Chilia and Cetatea Albă ( Akkerman in Turkish ), and annexed the shoreline southern part of Bessarabia, which was then divided into two sanjaks ( districts ) of the Ottoman Empire.

The Assyrian Christians on the other hand, came to similar conclusion but migrated in stages following each and every eruption of a political crisis with the regime in which boundaries they lived or following each conflict with their Muslim, Turkish, Arabs or Kurdish neighbors, or following the departure or expulsion of their patriarch Mar Shimon in 1933, first to Cyprus and then to the United States.

In 1880, David Saradjishvili founded his Cognac Factory in Tbilisi, Georgia ( then part of the Russian Empire ) which was a crossroads for Turkish, Central Asian, and Persian trade routes.

In the 7th century, after a brief rule under the Turkish Khaganats, it was conquered by the Arabs and then the Mongols and much later, by the Russians.

It can be sliced and deep-fried, then served with plain yogurt, ( optionally ) topped with a tomato and garlic sauce, such as in the Turkish dish patlıcan kızartması ( meaning: fried aubergines ) or without yogurt as in patlıcan şakşuka.

A new government, the Turkish Grand National Assembly, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal ( Atatürk ) was formed on 23 April 1920, in Ankara ( then known as Angora ).

In describing Turkish music, Mc Boe-B from Islamic Force tells the narrative, “ boy comes home and listens to hip hop, then his father comes along and says ‘ come on boy, we ’ re going shopping .’ They get in the car and the boy listens to Turkish music on the cassette player.

The site of present-day Odessa was then a town known as Khadjibey ( named for Hacı I Giray, and also spelled Kocibey in English, Hacıbey or Hocabey in Turkish, and Hacıbey in Crimean Tatar ).

During the 16th century, Turkish naval attacks destroyed Maó, and the then capital, Ciutadella, before Turkish settlement took place on some of the island.