THE LAST SURPRISE OF NAZIM HİKMET
One of the most skillful writers of Turkish poetry Nazım Hikmet's new poem was found.He wrote this poem in İstanbul Prison in 1938 and sent it to his wife,Piraye.
geldi dört güvercin suda yıkanmak için.
su mapushane yalağındaydı ve güneş güvercinlerin
gözünde,kanadında,kırmızı ayağındaydı.
girdi dört güvercin yıkanmak için suyun içine.
ve kederli toprakta dört insan
baktı dört güvercine.
güvercinler hep beraber
güneşi taşıyıpkırmızı ayaklarında uçabilirler.
durdurmaz onları demir ve duvar.
güvercinlerin yumuşak kanatları var.
ve kanatlar şimdi burada,şimdi damın üzerinde.
insanların kanatları yok
insanların kanatları yüreklerinde.
dört güvercin güneşe varmak için
yıkandı,uçtu sudan....
NAZIM HİKMET RAN

Nazım Hikmet Ran's 20 years passed with his wife,Piraye.Unfortunately,14 years of this period,he was in prison.They have both seperate and in common life.During this period,Nazım Hikmet sent photos and poems except for letters to Piraye from various prisons.She protected these works diligently.

PİRAYE,YAZAR KEMAL TAHİR VE NAZIM HİKMET.1940 ÇANKIRI PRISON

Piraye's grandchild Kerem Bengü and his wife Zeynep Bengü are living in Piraye's house.From time to time,they overview some of these records.By this way,they found some notebooks.On these notebooks,the drafts of his 3 discontinued novels were written.

In one of her letters,Piraye approximately wrote these to Nazım Hikmet; "When you get bored,take a notebook,begin to write and relieve yourself." On his every 3 notebooks' entrance pages,Piraye's these words were written in quotation marks.Nazım Hikmet wrote these novels in order to obey Piraye's advice.He wrote 20-30 pages and gave up writing.

One of these drafts was very interesting.Its name is ,"Zeytin ve İncir Adası".It describes an island like Tenedos or Imbros.In this novel,there are Greek heroes.Considering its subject,the draft of this novel is extremely interesting.As is known,later,Yaşar Kemal work on a similar subject.In his novel, "Fırat Suyu Kan Akıyor Baksana",again such an island is described.For this reason,there occured an impression as if these writers thought the same things at different times.

BY REMZİYE

If you want to read the original form of the news,please click on the link below.

http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/430862.asp

HISTORICAL MEETING AT ANZAC BAY april 25th,2008

At the 93rd anniversary of the Gallipoli Wars,Anzacs commemorated their ancestors with a ceremony.In this ceremony,the Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand,Winston Peters said that Gallipoli,where lots of New Zealandders' grave are,turned out to be a holy place for all them.Peters also said ''Our soldiers' courage and the losses they live in Gallipoli 93 years ago were scraped to our history books,archives and our national souls.Furthermore,New Zealander soldiers greatly respect to Turks' courage and their military abilities and admire their fight for defending their countries'' At the end of his speech,he added that Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK,who was the commander of the division in Gallipoli and the founder of the Turkish Republic,made way for agreement after Gallipoli Wars.

Approximately 10.000 Australian and New Zealander joined the ceremony this year.Hymns and prays were chanted.The representatives of the countries joined the Gallipoli Wars,put garlands on behalf of their ancestors.ATATÜRK'S message for Anzac soldiers was also read by two Turk officers both in Turkish and English.
''Bu memlekette kanlarını döken kahramanlar;
Burada bir dost ülkenin topraklarındasınız.huzur ve sükün içinde uyuyunuz.Siz Mehmetçiklerle yan yana,koyun koyunasınız.Uzak diyarlardan evlatlarını harbe gönderen analar:Göz yaşlarınızı dindiriniz.
Evlatlarınız bizim bağrımızdadır.Huzur içindedirler ve huzur içinde rahat rahat uyuyacaklardır.Onlar,bu topraklarda canlarını verdikten sonra artık bizim de evlatlarımız olmuşlardır.''
please submit your translations we did in the class.

by remziye

SUDAKİ İZ

please submit your translation we did in the class
by remziye

BONSAI

This is a true Collector’s find for those bonsaist and gardener who want to own the finest and rarest pieces of gardening history. It is similar to owning the fabled artist’s own Secret Bonsai Technique Notebook. This one-of-a-kind authoritative guide to the ancient art of potted miniature trees and is simply a bonsaist collector's item that gives the feeling of being directly in the workshop with the Japanese Bonsai Master Kimura. More over the printed edition is SOLD OUT, not to mention its $280 cover price!. These Out of Print gem is the Ferrari of the bonsai books in the market. You will be one of only a few thousand in the world owning this hard-to-find book by a legendary Japanese bonsai master Kimura.In an ancient Japanese scroll written in Japan around the Kamakura period, it is translated to say : “To appreciate and find pleasure in curiously curved potted trees is to love deformity.” Whether this was intended as a positive or negative statement, it leaves us to believe that growing dwarfed and twisted trees in containers was an accepted practice among the upper class of Japan by the Kamakura period. By the fourteenth century bonsai was indeed viewed as a highly refined art form, meaning that it must have been an established practice many years before that time.

BONSAI

This time we will translate a book about Bonsai. In the following link you can download the book.
http://depositfiles.com/files/660853

ALCHEMIST

Click on the link below to download the book. This is the book we have translated in the class.

http://rapidshare.com/files/12899004/_eBook_Paulo_Coelho_The_Alchemist.pdf

Millions assigned terror risk score on trips to US By GUARDIAN

Ed Pilkington in New York Friday December 1, 2006Guardian Unlimited

Millions of travellers coming into and out of the US over the past four years have each been assigned a risk assessment score designed to pinpoint potential terrorists or criminals, the US government has revealed.
The travellers, including all British passengers to the US, have been given a security profile that draws on information from a number of key American departments as well as intelligence held on them by the airlines and co-operating governments. The profiles are held in a central computer in Washington for 40 years.

The details of the system, known as the Automated Targeting System or ATS, were put on the federal noticeboard last month but attracted little attention. The system builds on measures to target suspected terrorists first developed in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
The process of garnering intelligence from many different sources and then processing it to produce a profile or score indicating risk levels was initially applied to cargo. But over recent years it has been widened to include individual air passengers as well as flight crews, without any public notification and without the knowledge of data protection groups.
The Department of Homeland Security said it was putting out information about the profiling system as part of its commitment to open government. ATS is "one of the most advanced targeting systems in the world" it said, with the primary purpose of "targeting, identifying, and preventing potential terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the US".
But civil liberties groups fear it amounts to an unwarranted intrusion on privacy. "This is a tremendously significant deal. It means the federal government has secretly assigned a terrorist rating to tens of millions of US citizens," said Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington.
David Sobel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation told the Associated Press: "It's probably the most invasive system the government has yet deployed in terms of the number of people affected."
The ATS database works by drawing together information held on individuals and companies from the US Treasury, customs and immigration departments and enforcement agencies. Commercial airlines supply data through passenger name records, and foreign governments share intelligence on a bilateral basis.
The computer sets a risk rating for each person by analysing information such as the passenger's history of one-way ticket purchase, seat preferences, frequent flyer records, number of bags, how they pay for tickets and even what meals they order. The computer uses a number of rules built into its programme which the Department of Homeland Security says "help identify suspicious or unusual behaviour".
The department emphasises that the risk rating is only used as a guide to immigration officers at the borders to assist them in selecting passengers to interview upon entry as part of their inspection procedures. So, it says, the individual is at no greater risk from ATS than being put through a border interview of the kind that many passengers experience in any case as part of random inspections. But civil rights groups point to a potential Catch 22 in the system in which individuals are never allowed to know what their risk rating is, yet they are allowed to challenge the information upon which that rating is posited.
Mr Rotenberg said the provision effectively decimated the Privacy Act. "This is a secretive government system that lacks transparency and any meaningful application of the act.

Turks Protest Pope's Coming Visit by WASHINGTON POST 28 NOVEMBER 2006

Turkish nationalists protest against the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI. This is the Pope's first official trip to a mostly Muslim country, after the remarks he made in September that were interpreted as linking Islam and violence.
Getty Images / Dimitar Dilkoff
Turks Protest Pope's Coming Visit

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Changes Plans to Meet With Benedict XVI
By Molly Moore

Washington Post Staff WriterMonday, November 27, 2006; 10:00 AM
ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 26 -- Thousands of chanting, flag-waving protesters on Sunday denounced Pope Benedict XVI as anti-Islamic, demanding that he cancel a trip to Turkey this week that the Vatican hopes will help mend relations between the pontiff and Muslims.
An estimated 25,000 protesters jammed a large square in Istanbul in one of the largest public demonstrations against the visit so far in this predominantly Muslim country, where secular voices are battling growing Islamic forces at a critical moment in Turkey's relations with the West.

The pope's visit has infuriated many Muslims because of remarks he made 2 1/2 months ago in which he quoted a medieval Christian emperor equating some of the prophet Muhammad's teachings with violence and evil. The pope has not apologized for making the remarks but has said he regretted the pain they may have caused Muslims.
In a last-minute change of plans that indicates a new receptiveness to the pontiff's visit, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now expected to meet with Benedict XVI on Tuesday for 20 minutes at Ankara's airport after the pontiff flies in from Italy, the Associated Press reported from Vatican City.

Erdogan had originally said he could not meet the pope because he would be attending a NATO summit in Latvia, prompting Italian newspapers to dub it a snub to the pontiff. The Vatican insisted at the time that it was a result of a scheduling conflict.

Erdogan will now squeeze in an airport meeting before leaving for Latvia, according to a Vatican spokesman, the AP reported. The Vatican announced the meeting, which Erdogan's spokesman then confirmed.

Protesters waved signs declaring "Go home, pope" and shouted, "No to the pope!" as about 4,000 police, many in riot gear, ringed the square and helicopters monitored the crowd from overhead.

"We don't want the pope here," said Mustafa Demir, 50, as he gripped the hands of his two elementary-school-age daughters. "He insulted our prophet."
Although many Turks oppose the papal visit, some government authorities and business leaders see it as a chance to promote Turkey's efforts to join the European Union and to highlight the country's secular political system.

Turkish officials attempted to play down the protest. Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said at a news conference that the pope's visit could help "remove some misunderstandings" between Christians and Muslims and that his messages would "be very important."

During his regular Sunday address at the Vatican, Benedict told the crowd beneath his window, "Starting right now, I want to send a cordial greeting to the dear Turkish people, rich in history and culture."
He added, "To these people and their representatives, I express feelings of esteem and sincere friendship."

The Vatican also confirmed Sunday that the pope will visit Istanbul's famous Blue Mosque, the Sultanahmet, in his first visit to a mosque as pope.

Turkish authorities said security will be extremely tight during the papal trip, which begins in the capital, Ankara, includes a visit to the shrine near Ephesus, where many Catholics believe the Virgin Mary lived her final days, and ends in Istanbul.

Although Vatican-Muslim relations have dominated the headlines about it, the trip was originally scheduled to help repair a centuries-old divide between the Vatican and Orthodox Christian churches. The pope will have two meetings with the Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, who is based in Istanbul and has waged his own religious battles with the Turkish government.

Many of the protesters at the rally Sunday in Istanbul were just as distressed by the pope's planned meeting with the Orthodox patriarch as they were by what they see as his attitude toward Muslims.

"We are here to prevent the visit of the pope," said Gulnihal Yildirim, 38, who wore a head scarf and was accompanied by her two daughters, ages 6 and 11, each sporting green headbands reading, "The pope should not come."

"He will be the guest of the state for one day and of the patriarch for three days," added Yildirim, who said she opposed the pope's efforts to enhance the status of the patriarch in this Muslim country.

Special correspondent Yonca Poyraz-Dogan in Istanbul contributed to this report.