Quotes About Turkish

The roar of an engine blasted from his left—and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with flame decals jumped the sidewalk in front of him. A small crowd of travelers scattered. "How do you say, 'You jerk!' in Turkish?" Jake asked. "Erasmus!" Dan cried with relief. Jake balled his fist angrily and shouted, "Erasmus!"

Spying came to him as making love comes to other men. It is his belief, in fact, that his father may have had relations with the Okhrana, the czar's intelligence service, though his murder by the Turks was haphazard—simply one act in a village slaughter. But Avram knew them, whether they were Turkish Aghas or British officers, he always understood how they worked, where their vulnerabilities lay.

It'd be great to be in a position where you can make choices regardless of money. My tastes are always gonna lead me to go for the amazing project where I'm being paid in Turkish cantaloupes.

For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.

Hawkins a year to reach Agra, which he managed to do dressed as an Afghan nobleman. Here he was briefly entertained by the Emperor, with whom he conversed in Turkish, before Jahangir lost interest in the semi-educated sea dog and sent him back home with the gift of an Armenian Christian wife.

On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, Ä°stanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.

Dün ak?am yemekte, kocam bana Türk korsanlar?ndan söz etti, sava? ortam?ndan yararlan?p ?spanyol gemilerini tutsak al?yorlarm??. - Korkmad???m? m? san?yorsun?

He asked us what we were doing, and our smuggler said, "Oh, nothing. We're just hanging out"—as if lots of Americans in ninja suits loitered around Syria in the middle of the afternoon. We asked him if he had a cell phone. He didn't, which meant we had twenty or thirty minutes to get back across the Turkish border.

This is the English, not the Turkish court;Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,But Harry Harry.

Alain Veynerdi zafer kazanm?? bir komutan edas?yla Anna'ya bakt?. O an hayat?n?n en mutlu an? olmal?yd?: –Han?mefendi, bundan önceki hayat?n?zda siz bir Türk'tünüz.

Av, sava??n yerini tutan bir etkinlik olarak görülürdü ya da daha sonraki bir tarihten kalma bir metne göre sava?? en iyi ö?reten etkinlikti. Türklerin gözünde sava? ile av hemen hemen e? anlaml?yd? ve genel kural olarak eri?kin say?labilmek için bir insan? öldürmek gerekiyordu, av ba?ar?s? da genellikle buna e? tutulurdu.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

I want an expresso. Black. But give me the domestic blend. That Turkish crap gives me the runs for a week. - Jenks

By the eve of World War II the Yishuv—the Jewish community of Palestine—had grown to almost half a million and had won broad international admiration for creating egalitarian agricultural communities and flourishing modern towns and cities in an impoverished land long neglected under Turkish sovereignty.

Like many Young Turk leaders, Talat was not ethnically Turkish; rather he was of Pomak descent, that is, native Bulgarian Muslim.

the Young Turks with a complex nationalist ideology replete with ideas such as "in reality there cannot be a common home and fatherland for different peoples.… The new civilization will be created by the Turkish race."27

Mustafa Kemal was convinced, and ordered that the theory should be taught at the new university in Ankara. He told a young French financial expert, Hervé Alphand, that his name was Turkish as it comprised the words alp (champion) and han (or khan, a ruler). In confirmation, Mustafa Kemal felt Alphand's skull: it was, he decided, brachycephalic, the characteristic skull-shape of the Turkish race.11

Lo que Mayreni describió no fue un crimen de guerra aislado. Era una rutina. En el desfiladero de Kemaj, los kurdos y los soldados turcos de la 86.º Brigada de Caballería asesinaron a más de 20.000 mujeres y niños. En Bitlis, los turcos ahogaron a más de 900 mujeres en el Tigris.

La vergüenza de la rendición francesa del sanjacato (distrito provincial) de Alejandreta —incluido Musa Dag— es una de las historias en buena parte no desveladas de la segunda guerra mundial. El temor a que Turquía se uniera al Eje alemán como había hecho en la guerra de 1914-1918 llevó a Francia a aceptar un referéndum en Alejandreta de modo que los habitantes armenios y turcos pudieran elegir su nacionalidad.

The Turkish retreat left Charles's troops restless for the fight, but the victory has become legendary and the Viennese bakers are said to have baked in celebration a new, deliciously light butter pastry in the shape of the Islamic crescent moon, pastries that today we still call croissants.

There was a ship came from the north country,And the name of the ship was the Golden Vanity.And they feared she might be taken by the Turkish enemy,That sails upon the Lowland, Lowland, Lowland,That sails upon the Lowland sea.

The Turkish commanders agreed to surrender in return for a guarantee of safety, signed by Alexios himself

By the middle of the eleventh century a Turkish dynasty, the Seljuks, had emerged as sultans in Baghdad, and by its end the Islamic world, from Central Asia to Egypt, was largely ruled by Turks.