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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... in some incidents attacking cars having Turkish flags, and us watching all of it from our tv's. Trabzon was the anti thesis of whatever I felt. A wonderful nature with emrald green forests, a fresh, crisp air in November and probably the last place in Turkey where anyone can dare to burn cars having Turkish flags. After the plane landed off an elderly lady asked help from me for her luggage....
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The Toynbee convector (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Herodotus’s accurate knowledge of geography did not extend much farther eastwards than a line drawn from Trebizond [Trabzon] to Susa [the nearest town on the map below is Ahvāz; Susa and Ctesiphon-on-Tigris were the joint capitals of Parthia; Susa had the older history; Ctesiphon was the Sassanian capital when the Arabs conquered it] (i.e. a [...]
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Blogian (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
... about Sevres’. The 1920 Treaty of Sevres’ assigned to Armenia the provinces of Van, Erzurum, Trabzon, and a number of others. Turks justify their claim on this territory by citing demographics; Armenians constituted a minority in these areas. Made possible in part by the Armenian Genocide (aka “humane relocations”), this sly argument is indisputably correct. However, this rhetoric still...
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Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... involved in developing the Beşiktaş fan club at Bilgi. and in an hour the team play against Trabzonspor and I will be watching the game. I had even planned to go to Trabzon but decided not to in the last minute. Here is my latest album selection for driving: Divine Intervention [EXPLICIT LYRICS] ~ Slayer Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace ~ Foo Fighters The Reminder ~ Feist No World...
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Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
... Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007 and was captured by the gendarmerie on his way back to his hometown of Trabzon on the Black Sea.The murder of Dink, who was tried under article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, caused serious domestic and international criticism. The photos of the suspect with police and gendarmerie officers appeared in the media, causing a huge embarrassment for the department. Two...
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The Toynbee convector (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
... were taken on October 29, Republic Day, the day after I arrived here. Apart from a mad trip to Trabzon from Georgia in 1997, I don’t think I’d been in Turkey since 1990, when I was told in a café by the Sea of Marmara, by a Kurd who was reading Hürriyet, that Iraq had invaded Kuwait. My hotel room didn’t have a television.Istanbul hasn’t changed that much superficially, but I miss the blue...
