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Artificial Intelligence / Wisdom Aphorisms by Turkish Polymath: Prof Ismail Hakki Aydin

Artificial intelligence can be anything but not intellectual!
Humanity must be prepared for artificial intelligence to take control!
“Artificial intelligence” hears, understands, thinks, speaks and works with numbers instead of classical logic!

The better we understand the brain, the more perfect it is possible for us to write and implement artificial intelligence algorithms!

Assassinations are now contracted to artificial intelligence!
Artificial intelligence may one day be a manager.
Ministries and state administration can be tendered to them!

Artificial intelligence can be anything,
He can’t be “human”!
Has humanity been able to…

Artificial intelligence can read our thoughts by analyzing the frequencies of our brains and take action accordingly.

Artificial intelligence and “spirit” do not come together!

Artificial intelligence, with an algorithm and expressed in mathematics
imitates everything that can be done, every emotion and feeling!

Artificial intelligence and quantum technologies should make it necessary to re-determine the concepts and principles of ethics, morality and law on a universal scale. Otherwise, the journey to the very dangerous unknown with no return begins!

Internet of things, artificial intelligence and digital data bankers
(!), will keep everything under surveillance, the universe and
will shape our behavior.

“Artificial intelligence” now also has a “digital identity”!

In some respects, artificial intelligence
can make more accurate decisions algorithmically than humans!

Rather than the horror of artificial intelligence dominating life, humanity abusing artificial intelligence is more dangerous!

Now semiology is very easy with artificial intelligence.

..The camera and microphone systems of artificial intelligence can be infiltrated for cyber espionage and technical monitoring, manipulated remotely by cyber assassins and turned into a serial killer!

Büyükada and Heybeliada, Istanbul

© Copyright photos by Levent Ağaoğlu

Samatya, an Old Town in Istanbul

© Copyright photos by Levent Ağaoğlu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samatya

Samatya (Greek: Ψαμάθεια, pr. Psamatheia; Armenian: Սամաթիա) is a quarter of the Fatih district of Istanbul. It is located along the Marmara Sea, and borders to the west on the neighborhood of Yedikule (the “Castle of the Seven Towers”).

Etymology

The name originates from the Greek word psamathion (Ψαμάθιον), meaning “sandy”, because of the great quantity of sand found in the quarter.

History

About 383 AD, the first monastic institution was established in Constantinople, at Psamatheia, at that time still outside the walled city.

The church of Saint Menas

Up to recent times, Samatya was mostly inhabited by Armenians, who were settled here in 1458 by Sultan Mehmet II, and who own there the church of Surp Kevork, also called Sulu Manastiri (Water’s monastery) – previously an Eastern Orthodox church which dates back to before the Ottoman conquest, and by Greeks, who have the churches of Hristos Analipsis and Haghios Menas.

The quarter was destroyed in 1782 by one of the largest fires of Istanbul ever recorded.

Samatya today

In Samatya there is also an important public hospital, the Istanbul Educational and Research Hospital İstanbul Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi.

Samatya has a station (named “Kocamustafapaşa”) on the suburban railway line Sirkeci-Halkalı.

One of the most picturesque fish markets of Istanbul is placed in the quarter, just opposite the train station.

Samatya is also a favorite place for Turkish directors. One of the most famous Turkish TV shows, Ikinci Bahar (“Second Spring”), as well as Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Three Monkeys, were filmed in Samatya.

Notable personalities

Hrachia Adjarian – Armenian linguist
Simon Agopyan – Armenian painter
Mihran Apikyan – Armenian writer and linguist
Levon Larents – Armenian writer
Avedis Zildjian III – Armenian American cymbal maker

Georgia Nature, Culture and History Tour by North Travel

October 6, 2021

 

Dear friends and collegues,

 

I have been organizing boutique-elite culture-nature tours to Black Sea countries for a long time both as an organizer and as a guide, in cooperation with different travel companies, and then I started to carry out these excursions only through my own company in recent years.

Through my tourism agency named “NORTH TRAVEL”, oriented to the countries and regions which are located at the Northern Black Sea hinterland, I have already been managing travels that are constituting unique and exceptional touristic concept that does not exist almost nowhere, by none of a tourism agency regarding extent and content in Turkey.

In this context, until now, I have taken several hundreds of outstanding, qualified people from quite different environments and provinces, from very different ages and occupational groups to these geographies and regions.

As a result of having been resident in southern Russia for many years, and also having the infrastructure and network to respond to all kinds of groups and requests under all conditions / circumstances, I offer travel packages and trip offers in an extremely unique flexibility and variety, specially beginning from the summer of 2021, especially to the closed travel group candidates.

In this framework, taking into account the characteristics of the global period that is going on in particular; oriented to Georgia and the Russian Federation and Crimea which are Turkey’s closest north-eastern neighbors and also to White Russia (Belarus); I have started organising these trips, tours and I am still continuing, where the whole group itself determines the basic parameters.

In this context, for you, for your respectable corporate and personal circle, I propose tour concepts for the autumn season that we have already entered and the following winter period:

1- Tbilisi  (Georgia)

2- Batumi  (Georgia)

3- Sochi and its surroundings (Russian Federation)

4- Republic of Abkhazia

5- Krasnodar and Adygea Republic (Russian Federation)

6- Azov Sea surroundings (Taganrog + Rostov + Azov) _ Russian Federation

7- Republic of Crimea (long and short tours)

8- Moscow  (Russian Federation)

9- Saint Petersburg  (Russian Federation)

10- Minsk (Belarus – Republic of Belarus).

 

Your sincerely, with Best regards

 

OKAY DEPREM / International Cultural-Tourism Organisator and Guide

Istanbul, TURKEY

www.northtravel.org

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Republic of Crimea: Nature.Culture and History Tour by North Travel

October 6, 2021

 

Dear friends and collegues,

I have been organizing boutique-elite culture-nature tours to Black Sea countries for a long time both as an organizer and as a guide, in cooperation with different travel companies, and then I started to carry out these excursions only through my own company in recent years.

Through my tourism agency named “NORTH TRAVEL”, oriented to the countries and regions which are located at the Northern Black Sea hinterland, I have already been managing travels that are constituting unique and exceptional touristic concept that does not exist almost nowhere, by none of a tourism agency regarding extent and content in Turkey.

In this context, until now, I have taken several hundreds of outstanding, qualified people from quite different environments and provinces, from very different ages and occupational groups to these geographies and regions.

As a result of having been resident in southern Russia for many years, and also having the infrastructure and network to respond to all kinds of groups and requests under all conditions / circumstances, I offer travel packages and trip offers in an extremely unique flexibility and variety, specially beginning from the summer of 2021, especially to the closed travel group candidates.

In this framework, taking into account the characteristics of the global period that is going on in particular; oriented to Georgia and the Russian Federation and Crimea which are Turkey’s closest north-eastern neighbors and also to White Russia (Belarus); I have started organising these trips, tours and I am still continuing, where the whole group itself determines the basic parameters.

In this context, for you, for your respectable corporate and personal circle, I propose tour concepts for the autumn season that we have already entered and the following winter period:

1- Tbilisi  (Georgia)

2- Batumi  (Georgia)

3- Sochi and its surroundings (Russian Federation)

4- Republic of Abkhazia

5- Krasnodar and Adygea Republic (Russian Federation)

6- Azov Sea surroundings (Taganrog + Rostov + Azov) _ Russian Federation

7- Republic of Crimea (long and short tours)

8- Moscow  (Russian Federation)

9- Saint Petersburg  (Russian Federation)

10- Minsk (Belarus – Republic of Belarus).

 

Your sincerely, with Best regards

 

OKAY DEPREM / International Cultural-Tourism Organisator and Guide

Istanbul, TURKEY

www.northtravel.org

Instagram: northtravel_2018

https://www.facebook.com/groups/863719964375516

https://booksonturkey.com/?s=Okay+deprem

Mobile: +90 532 632 35 06.

What’s App: +7 926 633 02 25

North Travel: Belarusian Capital City Minsk Culture and History Tour

October 6, 2021

 

Dear friends and collegues,

 

I have been organizing boutique-elite culture-nature tours to Black Sea countries for a long time both as an organizer and as a guide, in cooperation with different travel companies, and then I started to carry out these excursions only through my own company in recent years.

Through my tourism agency named “NORTH TRAVEL”, oriented to the countries and regions which are located at the Northern Black Sea hinterland, I have already been managing travels that are constituting unique and exceptional touristic concept that does not exist almost nowhere, by none of a tourism agency regarding extent and content in Turkey.

In this context, until now, I have taken several hundreds of outstanding, qualified people from quite different environments and provinces, from very different ages and occupational groups to these geographies and regions.

As a result of having been resident in southern Russia for many years, and also having the infrastructure and network to respond to all kinds of groups and requests under all conditions / circumstances, I offer travel packages and trip offers in an extremely unique flexibility and variety, specially beginning from the summer of 2021, especially to the closed travel group candidates.

In this framework, taking into account the characteristics of the global period that is going on in particular; oriented to Georgia and the Russian Federation and Crimea which are Turkey’s closest north-eastern neighbors and also to White Russia (Belarus); I have started organising these trips, tours and I am still continuing, where the whole group itself determines the basic parameters.

In this context, for you, for your respectable corporate and personal circle, I propose tour concepts for the autumn season that we have already entered and the following winter period:

1- Tbilisi  (Georgia)

2- Batumi  (Georgia)

3- Sochi and its surroundings (Russian Federation)

4- Republic of Abkhazia

5- Krasnodar and Adygea Republic (Russian Federation)

6- Azov Sea surroundings (Taganrog + Rostov + Azov) _ Russian Federation

7- Republic of Crimea (long and short tours)

8- Moscow  (Russian Federation)

9- Saint Petersburg  (Russian Federation)

10- Minsk (Belarus – Republic of Belarus).

 

Your sincerely, with Best regards

 

OKAY DEPREM / International Cultural-Tourism Organisator and Guide

Istanbul, TURKEY

www.northtravel.org

Instagram: northtravel_2018

https://www.facebook.com/groups/863719964375516

https://booksonturkey.com/?s=Okay+deprem

Mobile: +90 532 632 35 06.

What’s App: +7 926 633 02 25

North Caucasus: Nature. Culture and History Tour by North Travel

October 6, 2021

Dear friends and collegues,

I have been organizing boutique-elite culture-nature tours to Black Sea countries for a long time both as an organizer and as a guide, in cooperation with different travel companies, and then I started to carry out these excursions only through my own company in recent years.

Through my tourism agency named “NORTH TRAVEL”, oriented to the countries and regions which are located at the Northern Black Sea hinterland, I have already been managing travels that are constituting unique and exceptional touristic concept that does not exist almost nowhere, by none of a tourism agency regarding extent and content in Turkey.

In this context, until now, I have taken several hundreds of outstanding, qualified people from quite different environments and provinces, from very different ages and occupational groups to these geographies and regions.

As a result of having been resident in southern Russia for many years, and also having the infrastructure and network to respond to all kinds of groups and requests under all conditions / circumstances, I offer travel packages and trip offers in an extremely unique flexibility and variety, specially beginning from the summer of 2021, especially to the closed travel group candidates.

In this framework, taking into account the characteristics of the global period that is going on in particular; oriented to Georgia and the Russian Federation and Crimea which are Turkey’s closest north-eastern neighbors and also to White Russia (Belarus); I have started organising these trips, tours and I am still continuing, where the whole group itself determines the basic parameters.

In this context, for you, for your respectable corporate and personal circle, I propose tour concepts for the autumn season that we have already entered and the following winter period:

1- Tbilisi  (Georgia)

2- Batumi  (Georgia)

3- Sochi and its surroundings (Russian Federation)

4- Republic of Abkhazia

5- Krasnodar and Adygea Republic (Russian Federation)

6- Azov Sea surroundings (Taganrog + Rostov + Azov) _ Russian Federation

7- Republic of Crimea (long and short tours)

8- Moscow  (Russian Federation)

9- Saint Petersburg  (Russian Federation)

10- Minsk (Belarus – Republic of Belarus).

 

Your sincerely, with Best regards

 

OKAY DEPREM / International Cultural-Tourism Organisator and Guide

Istanbul, TURKEY

www.northtravel.org

Instagram: northtravel_2018

https://www.facebook.com/groups/863719964375516

https://booksonturkey.com/?s=Okay+deprem

Mobile: +90 532 632 35 06.

What’s App: +7 926 633 02 25

 

Galician Ottoman-Turkish Martyrdom Cemetery, Ukraine

© Photos and Text by Okay Deprem http://www.northtravel.org/

I must have caught the attention of someone who is obviously a religious officer in the church, where there are not many people because of the repairs, because he wants to approach me and meet me. As a Turkish person, it must have been astonishing to him that I came all the way here and even visited their modest churches, because he wants to have a conversation. I learn that the gentleman whose name is Dimitri is the head priest of this church. A moment later, he honors me and invites me to his room.

During our conversation, he talks about the Turkish-Ottoman martyrdoms in the region while bringing up the subject. Although my mind first went to the sieges of Vienna, or even the Ottoman-Polish or Russian Wars,  I understand that it belongs to the young people of Anatolian and Rumelian origin who died in the wars that are engraved in our memories as the famous “Galician Front” in the history books. While asking ‘How to get there, is it close?..’; “No problem, Let’s get in my car and go!” says…

After being sitting in Dimitri’s small car, almost everyone in town is looking at us along the way until we get to the grave in question. This situation, which reminds me of the absurd-surreal scenes of Fellini films and even makes me think of paranoid thoughts, soon changes when Dimitri announces that he is also the head of the Roman-Catholic Church congregation and is known by everyone in the region.

We enter a muddy and neglected road. First, on the right, we pass the enchanting Catholic cemetery, which resembles a field of flowers. At the end of the long road, we finally come to the cemetery of the Ottoman soldiers on the right. The martyrdom, which looks very modest at first glance and seems to be symbolic, is surrounded by a wall and separated from the surroundings. The only words on the plinth in the middle, surrounded by crescent and star tombstones, are written:

“ In memory of the saintly Turkish soldiers who were martyred on the Galician Front in World War I between 1916 and 1917… May their souls rest in peace!..”

The monument in question was built in 2006 with the initiative and assistance of the Turkish Embassy in Kiev. Finally, Dimitri states that although not as large as this one, there are more Ottoman tombs in the surrounding villages and towns.

While I am spending my last hours in Rohatin, we are taking a little city tour by car. Having been under Polish and Austro-Hungarian rule for many years, the town is very different from a typical Slavic city. It consists of matte but colorful houses with several floors, quite plain and straight facades, without courtyards. With the intention of Hürrem Sultan, I am returning from this short visit, such as “What is your intention, what a destiny”, full of striking impressions and having gained a friend.

“This article was published in the monthly journal ‘Hayat Dergi’.”

Ethno-linguistic groups in the Caucasus in 2014

Ethno-linguistic groups in the Caucasus region in 2014 Ethno-linguistic groups in the Caucasus region in 2014

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus#/media/File:Caucasus-ethnic_en.svg

Language families indigenous to the Caucasus

The medieval Georgian village of Shatili

Ethnic groups inhabiting the Caucasus region

The village of Tindi, in Dagestan, in the late 1890s

North Caucasian peoples (from left to right): Ossetians, Circassians, Kabardians, and a Chechen

Caucasians who speak languages which have long been indigenous to the region are generally classified into three groups: Kartvelian peoples, Northeast Caucasian peoples and Northwest Caucasian peoples.

Kartvelian languages

Northeast Caucasian languages

Northwest Caucasian languages

October 6, 2021

Dear friends and collegues,

I have been organizing boutique-elite culture-nature tours to Black Sea countries for a long time both as an organizer and as a guide, in cooperation with different travel companies, and then I started to carry out these excursions only through my own company in recent years.

Through my tourism agency named “NORTH TRAVEL”, oriented to the countries and regions which are located at the Northern Black Sea hinterland, I have already been managing travels that are constituting unique and exceptional touristic concept that does not exist almost nowhere, by none of a tourism agency regarding extent and content in Turkey.

In this context, until now, I have taken several hundreds of outstanding, qualified people from quite different environments and provinces, from very different ages and occupational groups to these geographies and regions.

As a result of having been resident in southern Russia for many years, and also having the infrastructure and network to respond to all kinds of groups and requests under all conditions / circumstances, I offer travel packages and trip offers in an extremely unique flexibility and variety, specially beginning from the summer of 2021, especially to the closed travel group candidates.

In this framework, taking into account the characteristics of the global period that is going on in particular; oriented to Georgia and the Russian Federation and Crimea which are Turkey’s closest north-eastern neighbors and also to White Russia (Belarus); I have started organising these trips, tours and I am still continuing, where the whole group itself determines the basic parameters.

In this context, for you, for your respectable corporate and personal circle, I propose tour concepts for the autumn season that we have already entered and the following winter period:

1- Tbilisi  (Georgia)

2- Batumi  (Georgia)

3- Sochi and its surroundings (Russian Federation)

4- Republic of Abkhazia

5- Krasnodar and Adygea Republic (Russian Federation)

6- Azov Sea surroundings (Taganrog + Rostov + Azov) _ Russian Federation

7- Republic of Crimea (long and short tours)

8- Moscow  (Russian Federation)

9- Saint Petersburg  (Russian Federation)

10- Minsk (Belarus – Republic of Belarus).

 

Your sincerely, with Best regards

 

OKAY DEPREM / International Cultural-Tourism Organisator and Guide

Istanbul, TURKEY

www.northtravel.org

Instagram: northtravel_2018

https://www.facebook.com/groups/863719964375516

https://booksonturkey.com/?s=Okay+deprem

Mobile: +90 532 632 35 06.

What’s App: +7 926 633 02 25