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Photograph of Gagauz families from Moldavian/Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republics and People's Republic of Bulgaria during the 1960/70's - Colorized by Simon Stamatov

The Gagauz are a Turkic-speaking people whose origins lie in the historical interaction of native inhabitants of the Black Sea region, who were either assimilated or intermarried with Oghuz Turkic peoples.

Many scholars believe that the Oghuz Turks in question were the Pechenegs, who entered Eastern Europe via the Eurasian steppes of Ukraine. While most Pechenegs assimilated into the surrounding Slavic (Kievan Rus’ and Bulgarian), Hungarian, and Romanian populations, some groups preserved their distinct identity and language, absorbing local inhabitants into their communities rather than disappearing entirely. The Gagauz are thought to descend from these latter groups, who eventually settled in the Balkans, particularly in what is now Bulgaria.

Unlike most Turkic-speaking populations in Eurasia who are Muslim, the Gagauz are a predominately Eastern Orthodox population, similar to the Chuvash of Russia.

"Impersonal"

The LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award Winner for 2025 photographer Gulnaz Galimullina.

Late Roman stone mosaic from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, Caria (modern Bodrum, Turkey), dated 4th century AD, now in the British Museum. A coloured laurel wreath encloses a Greek inscription with the following words:

ΥΓΙΑ "Health" ΖΟΗ "Life" ΧΑΡΑ "Joy" ΕΙΡΗΝΗ "Peace" ΕΥΘΥΜΙΑ "Happiness" ΕΛΠΙϹ "Hope"

sözlüğünün yarısı Türkçe olan ANADOLU MAKEDONCASI

ile çözümünü yapayım; İYGİ/EYGİ → ΥΓΕΙ (iygei); iyi olmak, iyilik, sağlık, tok olmak.. ing; to be good, curative

ÇARA/AÇAR → ΧΑΡΑ (çara); to English; cure, to Ottoman-Çare

EYRİN/EĞİR/ERİNÇ → ΕΙΡΗΝΗ (eyrini); huzurlu sakin olmak.. ing serene(bu da Tatar Türkçesinden (old) ingilizceye geçmiş), calm

EYDİM/EYİDİM/EĞİTİM → ΕΥΘΥΜΙΑ (eydimia); iyi işler yapmak, eğitmek, yetiştirmek.. ing; to do good things, educate

ELBİ → ΕΛΠΙC (elbis); özsezi, erkenden bilmek.. ing; foresight, knowing early

britanik gregya'ya bügünkü adaptasyonu (gülmek serbest); Υγεία, Ζωή, Χαρά, Ειρήνη, Ευθυμία, Ελπίς Sağlık, Yaşam, Sevinç, Huzur, Neşe, Umut

Greek city Ephesus???

Ephesus, Roman time name.. origin from the Kutai (with false name hitite) era ApasA..

"In 2018, sanitation workers in Çankaya, Turkey, began setting aside books that they pulled from trash bins on their night shifts — first for themselves, then for their family and friends. 

Over time, as the collection grew, the workers began storing them in the sloping hallways of an abandoned brick factory, which also serves as the headquarters for the city’s sanitation department. 

In 2018, the “Kitap Okuma Salonu,” (Workers’ Library) collection was officially designated as a public library for the people of Çankaya. 

“We started to discuss the idea of creating a library from these books,” Çankaya Mayor Alper Tasdelen told CNN when the library first opened. “And when everyone supported it, this project happened.”

“On one hand, there were those who were leaving these books on the streets,” Tasdelen added. “On the other hand — others were looking for these books.” 

In its first year, the library housed over 6,000 books. 

Today, it’s home to more than 40,000. 

When the number of books began exceeding the amount of shelf space at the library, the workers transformed one of their garbage trucks into a mobile library so that they could bring the excess books to local schools and prisons. 

“Village schoolteachers from all over Turkey are requesting books,” Tasdelen said.

The collection has grown so large in recent years that the city hired a full-time librarian to help tend to the books and facilitate loans on a two-week basis. 

In January, the Spouses of Head of Mission committee (a group of 12 women, who are the wives of ambassadors from 12 countries) visited the Workers’ Library and added to the collection’s foreign language section by donating recycled books “from the garbage to the library.” 

The books were published in more than 13 different languages, in honor of the committee’s home countries. 

According to the Turkish outlet Anka Haber Ajansi, SHOM Green Group Coordinator Kaire Jürgenson said that they “appreciated those who contributed to the establishment of the library” and emphasized that “this valuable work should be announced to more people.”

On a given day, the library is filled with municipal employees, their children, and students from local schools as they leaf through countless books and read quietly at assorted tables. 

For the sanitation workers who operate out of the brick building, the library has long served as a home away from home. 

“Before, I wished that I had a library in my house,” Serhat Baytemur, a garbage collector, said in a press statement. “Now we have a library here.”"

Nanban lacquerwork coffer, Unknown Artist Made in Japan, late 16th-early 17th century Stand is European, c.1610, Wood covered with plates of shell held by gilt-copper rivets, black & gold hiramaki-e, 85.2 x 116.5 x 45 cm. Victoria & Albert Museum

Ne gözel la! japonlar da bizim Türk Sedef Kakma Sanatını biliyorlarmış..

şaşırmamak gerek alt kültürlerde bizim kültür yansımalarımız, olağan..

olağan olmayan bu moronların japon sanatı olarak çarpıtmaları.. deniz kabuklarını balık pullarına benzetmeleri..

4000 yıl önce çinde bulumuş..muş.. muş..

dünyada ilk bulunmuş Ağız Kopuzları Altay Türk Kurganlarında bulundu.. daha eskisi yok..

kemikten komuzlar..

Gilded and gold inlaid iron sword uncovered by archaeologists at the Filipovka Kurgans, Orenburg Oblast, Russia.