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Turkey | Turkish cuisine

Garlic was long frowned upon for causing halitosis, so has never played a large role in traditional German cuisine, but has risen in popularity in recent decades due to the influence of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, and Turkish cuisines.

Many dishes are part of the larger tradition of Ottoman cuisine and their names reveal Arabic, Persian or Turkish roots: moussaka, tzatziki, yuvarlakia, keftethes, boureki, and so on.

In Turkish cuisine, oregano is mostly used for flavoring meat, especially for mutton and lamb.

They are grilled in many Latin American cuisines, such as in the Argentine asado, and served in bread in Turkish cuisine.

Turkish cuisine has in turn influenced those and other neighbouring cuisines, including those of western Europe.

Turkish cuisine varies across the country.

Although fast food is gaining popularity and many major foreign fast food chains have opened all over Turkey, Turkish people still rely primarily on the rich and extensive dishes of the Turkish cuisine.

Nuts, especially pistachios, chestnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, and walnuts, together with spices, have a special place in Turkish cuisine.

Plums, apricots, dates, apples, grapes, and figs are the most frequently used fruits, either fresh or dried, in Turkish cuisine. ple, komposto ( compote ) or hoşaf ( from Persian khosh âb, literally meaning " nice water ") are among the main side dishes to meat or pilav.

Eggplant () has a special place in the Turkish cuisine.

Because it is a predominantly Islamic country, pork plays no role in Turkish cuisine.

Yoghurt is an important element in Turkish cuisine.

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.

Category: Turkish cuisine

Category: Turkish cuisine

Elements of ancient Turkish cuisine were adopted during the Ottoman era, in the form of sweets ( for example different nougats, like white nougat called törökméz, quince ( birsalma ) sweets, Turkish Delight ), Turkish coffee, the cake called bejgli or rice dishes like pilaf ( in Transylvania ), meat and vegetable dishes like the eggplant, used in eggplant salads and appetizers, stuffed peppers and stuffed cabbage called töltött káposzta.

However, a report from the French AFP news agency stated that " The Turkish judicial authorities still haven't explained exactly which legal resources he had access to ", and former minister of Justice Hikmet Sami Türk, in government at the time of Ağca's extradition, claimed that, from a legal viewpoint, his liberation was a " serious mistake " at best, and that he should have not been freed before 2012.

Ecevit, Yıldız: Türk Romanında Postmodernist Açılımlar Tendencies in the Turkish novel.

In the modern Turkish language as used in the Republic of Turkey, a distinction is made between " Turks " and the " Turkic peoples " in loosely speaking: the term Türk corresponds specifically to the " Turkish-speaking " people ( in this context, " Turkish-speaking " is considered the same as " Turkic-speaking "), while the term Türki refers generally to the people of modern " Turkic Republics " ( Türki Cumhuriyetler or Türk Cumhuriyetleri ).

* Turkish Stars ( Türk Yıldızları ) ( Turkish Air Force )

* Turkish Revenge Brigade, Türk İntikam Tugayı, TİT

* Turkish Language Association, ( Türk Dil Kurumu-TDK ) the regulatory body of the Turkish language

H. M. Queen Elizabeth II has established the custom of awarding an honorary GCB to visiting heads of state, for example Gustav Heinemann, and Josip Broz Tito ( in 1972 ), Ronald Reagan ( in 1989 ), Lech Wałęsa ( in 1991 ), Dr. Censu Tabone, President of Malta, in 1992, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, George H. W. Bush ( in 1993 ), Nicolas Sarkozy in March 2008, Turkish President Abdullah Gül, Slovenian President Dr Danilo Türk Mexican President Felipe Calderón, and South African President Jacob Zuma.

The highest peak is Türk Tepesi (" Turkish Hill ") at an altitude of 217 m.

He was the leader of the left wing Republican Turkish Party ( Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi ).

Today, younger generations make a distinction by referring to ' Türk kahvesi ' ( Turkish coffee ).

* Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Birliği ( DİTİB ): German branch of the Turkish Presidency for Religious Affairs, Cologne

* TRT Türk ( 16: 9, but this is not encoded in DVB signal ) ( formerly known as TRT INT )-Broadcasts international news, current affairs, documentaries and cultural programming aimed at both Turks and Turkish speaking audience living abroad.

* Ahmet Türk, Turkish politician

The flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( Turkish: Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti bayrağı ) is based on the flag of Turkey with the colors reversed and two horizontal red stripes added at the top and bottom.

Notable works include the symphonic arrangement of the original 1921 score for the Turkish National Anthem, İlim Marşı, Azm-ü Ümit Marşı, Töre Marşı, Türk Çocukları, and Cumhuriyet Marşı.

The party began as an underground organization in the 1980s by the name Turkish National Freedom Movement ( Türk Millî Kurtuluş Hareketi ) as a response to Todor Zhivkov's policy of forced bulgarization of the Turkish minority in the country.

Among the Turkish youth, however, STC was interpreted as " Süper Türk Canavarı " ( Super Turkish Monster ).

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.