Tulay Arslan

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With the geometric peak that I discussed in today's video, a typical quake cluster is already in progress, thus far peaking magnitude 5.7.

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🔴 @isigmeclisi'nden #işcinayetleri Mayıs bilançosu: Mayıs’ta iş cinayetlerinde 145 işçi öldü

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/0NbtHPkk0R

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Just posted a photo @ Dechmont Law https://t.co/HZy6dC1qfQ

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Just posted a photo @ Linlithgow https://t.co/YPENuaq6Tf

[Nektaria Anastasiadou @NektariaAna]

Istanbul Greek Idiom #8: Αρμένικη βίζιτα/Armeniki vizita/Armenian visit is what we call the situation where the guests stay too long and don't seem to have any intention of leaving. I'll let my Armenian friends explain why.

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Istanbul Greek Idiom #7: Τράχωμα/trachoma means dowry in our idiom. It is a Byzantine Greek word that passed into Turkish & Ladino as drahoma. In Greece, however, the "dowry" meaning has been forgotten; and its homonym τράχωμα/trachoma refers to the eye disease trachoma.

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Istanbul Greek Idiom #6: the word κουμάσι/koumasi creates confusion in Greece, where it is used for both chicken coops and crooks. In Istanbul, we know that they come from two different Turkish words: kümes for coop and kumaş for cloth (a crook is made from bad cloth/material).

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/GJCm6XHWva

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Istanbul Greek Idiom #5: An expression that I use daily for my stubborn Karadenizli husband is νάτο κεφάλι νάτο μερμέρι, which passed into Turkish as nato kafa nato mermer. Literally: "here is the head, here is the marble."

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Istanbul Greek Idiom #4: Dalga means wave, temporary love affair, and reverie in Turkish; in Istanbul Greek, νταλγκάς/dalgas means wave or obsession; in Greece, the same word (but sometimes spelled νταλκάς/dalkas) is used for longing and unrequited love.

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🇬🇧 cashew

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Istanbul Greek Idiom #3: The Galata Tower is the Πύργος του Γαλατά/Pyrgos tou Galata for Greeks, but for us it is simply the Κουλάς/Koulas, from the Turkish küle. Ladino also uses the same word, Kula, for the monument of this traditionally Jewish neighbourhood.

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Istanbul Greek Idiom #2: Whereas the Athenian word for snack is κολατσιό/kolatsio (from the Italian colazione, meaning breakfast), in Istanbul we call our afternoon snack κεντιανό/kendiano, because it is eaten near the time of the Muslim Turkish ikindi prayer.

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Istanbul Greek Idiom #1: Whereas wisteria is called γλυσίνα/glysina in Athens, in Istanbul (as well as in many parts of Greece outside Athens), we call it σαλκίμι/salkimi, borrowed from the Turkish salkım.

(In photo: Şişli Mosque this morning.)

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E171: EU watchdog says food colouring widely used in UK is unsafe https://t.co/Yufi8fvfw4

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/qShZjrPYWV

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Just posted a photo @ Edinburgh, United Kingdom https://t.co/BQvTv9jpmk