Look how Azerbaijan delivers the weather report to Iran! Ethnic Azerbaijanis make up between 20% and 30% of the population of Iran, and they receive television transmissions from Baku.
This BBC interview with #Armenia’s PM from 2020 has not aged well. Two years later Armenia still refuses to recognize #Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, to renounce its territorial claims and to withdraw its illegal troops from Karabakh.
The Galata Tower, called Christea Turris by the Genoese, is a medieval stone tower in the Galata/Karaköy quarter of Istanbul, Turkey, just to the north of the Golden Horn's junction with the Bosphorus. #turkishfollowers#Türkisch#turkey#türk#turco#turc#turkish#türkiy
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk volunteered to fight in the Italo-Turkish war in the Ottoman Vilayet of Tripolitania (present-day Libya) to oppose the Italian invasion. Here he is photographed at the The Battle of Tobruk where he led the Turkish army and the Libyan rebels and defeated Ital
Dolma means "stuffed thing" and sarma means '"wrapped thing." These are general terms used for many varieties of vegetables and leaves stuffed with meat and rice fillings.Stuffed and wrapped vegetable dishes are common in many cuisines throughout Eastern Europe, the Mediterr
Pamukkale is a town in western Turkey known for the mineral-rich thermal waters flowing down white travertine terraces on a nearby hillside. It neighbors Hierapolis, an ancient Roman spa city founded around 190 B.C. Ruins there include a well-preserved theater and a necropolis wi
Seljuk Turks excelled in the working of stone and wood. The most important of the woodworking techniques was called kundekari where pieces of shaped wood are interlocked through rabbeting and mortising, without the use of any nails or glue. Before shaping, the wood was carefully
The Mevlevis are also known as the "whirling dervishes" due to their famous practice of whirling as a form of dhikr (remembrance of God). Dervish is a common term for an initiate of the Sufi path; whirling is part of the formal sema ceremony and the participants are properly kn
Menemen is a popular traditional Turkish dish which includes eggs, tomato, green peppers, and spices such as ground black and red pepper cooked in olive oil or sunflower oil. White cheese, and charcuterie products such as sucuk or pastırma may also be added. #turkishfollowers
In 19th-century Pera (Beyoğlu), a traditional tram trundled along the Grande Rue de Pera (İstiklal Caddesi) for 1.64 km connecting Taksim Square with Galatasaray and Tünel Square. The tram was taken out of service in 1961, replaced by buses. After İstiklal Caddesi became a pe