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Kalay ustaları seramik panosu, sanatçı Taci Alpaslan tarafından Tahtakale Mahmutoğlu Han cephesine tasarlanmıştır (1984)

Farmer Work depicted at the Great Palace Mosaic Museum
Shepherd milking goats, boy offering feedbag to donkey, and boys herding geese

Just arrived in paperback, 'Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe', can now be ordered direct from Hurst with a 25% discount, using the code SARACENS25 Hurst Publishers

This is appalliing. What does 'corruption on Earth' even mean? Who is the victim? And how can anyone actually be sentenced to death for it? #freetoomajsalehi theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Nerdy language tweet alert!

There are many words derived from Arabic in Turkish. Some of them are perceived as old-fashioned and are not commonly used in modern Turkish, having been replaced by other words. Examples of such words include the wonderful, 'bilakayduşart' - بلا قيد

Disappointing after the recent election results still to see the police barriers that mean we Cihangirlis will be prevented from going about our ordinary day-to-day lives again tmrw.

Lovely set of pics of Istanbul in 1972, two years before my own first life-changing visit. Only thing missing is the men sitting in Sultanahmet Park waiting to type up letters and documents for people.

Church of the HolySavior at Chora/KariyeMosque. Am I glad I drew it when I did! It goes back to 2nd C monastic foundations. Here is c10thC architecture overlaid w/14thC mosaic &fresco… #byzantine #pleinair #drawing #architecture #mosaic #mozaik #chora #kariye #drawing onistanbul

So France shld take back asylum-seekers who cross Channel to UK but UK shld NOT take back asylum-seekers who cross Irish Sea from UK to Ireland? You cldn't make this nonsense up. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Denizli Gazi İlk Mektebi.. 1.Ulusal mimari ve Mimar Kemaleddin eseri..

Abdürrahim Özer Pat Yale Ordulu (Κοτύωρα-Ορντού) Rumlardan Konstantin (Kostas) Efendi’nin, Taşbaşı Rum Mahallesi’nde bulunan Sarı Konağı💛

#Kapadokya vadileri çöpten yoruldu. Gönüllü olarak çöp toplayan insanlar da... Kalıcı bir çözüm bulunamazsa, bu duyarsız insan topluluklarıyla baş etmek mümkün olmayacak. Çok yazık...
Fotoğraflar: Fibhaber
#Çöp #Kapadokya yıKoruyalım

Kayseri Develi'de Karamanlıca (Yunan harfli Türkçe) 'Maşallah' yazan bir eski zaman Rum evi. Yunan harflerine aşina iseniz Karamanlıcayı okuyup büyük ölçüde anlamanız mümkün. Arap harfleriyle yazılan türkçeye Osmanlıca dememiz misali.

Develi'de bir evin cephesinden detay.
'Maşallah' yazılı kitabesiyle.

Bursa Yeşil Cami’nin içerisindeki erken Osmanlı sanatının nadir örneklerinden “kuşluk” olarak bilinen fıskiye 2004 yılında çalınmıştır.

1972 yapımı Türk Sineması Türkan Şoray’ın başrolde olduğu “Çile” filminde eserin orijinalini görmekteyiz.

Mimar Eyüp Dursun kendi

Bird sanctuary amongs Byzantine ruins on uninhabited Menet Island (possibly historic Melanoudion) on Lake Bafa in the historic region of Caria (modern Muğla Province)
Photos taken on Thursday

Another lovely Brexit benefit (not) - Ireland reaping big increase in Customs dues for items imported from UK (ir from British exporters or consumers). Whole thing is a complete fiasco. Hello, Keir Starmer... theguardian.com/business/2024/…

One of the silos at #Çubuklu now hosts an extraordinary computer animation called Transfiguration. Worth going up Bosphorus just to see it. Mesmerisingly beautiful.