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Central Asia: Through Writers’ Eyes

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Between these covers, the millennia of mercantile and cultural exchange along the Silk Route are celebrated by travellers and writers from Marco Polo to Sven Hedin, from William of Rubrick to Ella Maillart. Kathleen Hopkirk has spent a lifetime researching this vital heartland, traversed by five, inhospitable deserts but united by ancient chains of trading oases: from the Buddhist Empire of Kushan, to the scholarly Islamic centre at Bukhara, from the military conquerors massing in both directions to the saintly missionaries and monks who moved between its centres of learning.

This mysterious homeland of the Tartars, Turks, Mongols, Uzbeks, Uighurs, Tajiks, Scythians and Sarmatians, gave the world terrifying conquerors of the stature of Gengiz Khan and Tamberlane. Later it became the focus of the Great Game, a rivalry for influence in the area between the empires of Russia and Britain played out by spies, ambassadors, agents and travel writers for 150 years, itself a continuation of the old cultural rivalry between Persia and China for the soul of this vast region.

The Turkic Speaking Peoples: 2,000 Years of Art And Culture from Inner Asia to the Balkans

From the first nomadic tribes migrating from central Asia to the Mediterranean, through the rise of the Seljuk and the Ottoman Empire, to the present day, this book explores the traditions and cultural practices of the Turkic speaking peoples.

It examines their social and political significance within a historical and modern context, and their relationships with other cultures. This lavishly illustrated volume, featuring images from an award-winning photographer, allows readers to discover a civilization and understand its role in the world today.

The Most Beautiful, Most Cultural Region on Earth

ILBER ORTAYLI

The communist era, which lasted more than 40 years, created a cultural refrigerator effect in the Balkans. It is almost as if we are experiencing the opening of an old man with an interesting culture, clothing and style to the new world. There are large national minorities in all Danube countries; these were the cause of the conflicts and harsh policies between the two World Wars. Today, on the one hand, there is a new Renaissance along the Danube, with the policies of, for example, the last Bulgarian Tsar and the new prime minister Simeon, and on the other hand, ethnic conflicts continue in other regions. The Balkans is a continent of contrasts.

Let’s see what policy will prevail around this fertile, old rooted and tired river. Sunne-Belgrade-Budapest is the most beautiful and culturally radiant region of the world; but we want people to live in peace here and visitors to see friendly hosts on their Danube cruises. Danube is the common history of the Balkan peoples with its sweet and bitter history. Today, historians of most Danube countries exaggerate the bitterness of the past and do not remember much of its colorful and sweet aspects. Otherwise, the Danube will flow towards the Black Sea in a more loving and enlightening environment. Let’s know the history, but to build the future better, rather than holding the grudges of the past.

RUMELIA CULTURE

Prof Dr Tuna Taner Celal Bayar University Rector 650 Years Symposium / 4 June 2002

Distinguished guests, Beautiful People of the World Turks, Excited, sincere, humorous and positive people Rumeli Turks, I greet you all with respect and love. Organized to commemorate the 650th Anniversary of the Turks’ transition to Rumelia, this cultural program is actually a movement that we all need to evaluate well in all aspects and to utilize as an important element of continuity and development. I saw in the celebration protocol that there were some very important elements that I personally participated in in the organization of this program.

The first of these is the desire to keep the Rumelian culture alive in the Turkish existence and to keep it alive at all times as an important dimension of the Turkish existence. Secondly, groups with very different approaches have reached a will to consent to the unity of emotion, thought and action on such a common goal with sacrifice and will and to attribute the results to the Son of Fatih. These two elements, among other things, are two aspects that I think we’d all agree with to a large extent. Rumelian people, Rumelian Turkish people, with their multidimensional culture and multidimensional extensions, are the most developed examples of the human type that the world imagines in the future.

We need to announce this to the whole world with care, interest and power, without relying on humility. We must teach those who do not know. We need to keep this feature alive in Turkey, develop it and show it to the world. It is very interesting that the Rumelian culture is not a very categorical culture. However, it is a culture that mutually acquired the love, respect, trust and loyalty of the Turks, with its humanity, its constructiveness and its characteristics of being the locomotive of the Turkish existence and participating in the Turkish existence from every point of view.

Prof Dr Tuna Taner, Rector of Celal Bayar University, 650 Years Symposium, 4 June 2002

Döner on Wood, Istanbul

Turkish Scholars Breakdown: Turkey and Beyond

                                            TURKISH SCHOLARS

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BEYOND TURKEY

·        ASIA

·        EUROPE

IN TURKEY

 

BEYOND TURKEY

 

Geographies and Basins of Turkish Scholars

The first ancient concepts of our Civilization of Contemplation began to form in the Yenisey Basin (Siberia, Russia) in the Altays in 3000 BC,…

 

Turkish Brilliant Scholars

The first essay on the Encyclopedia of Universal Thinkers begins with 2650 years of experience, starting with Thales of Miletus, the first known philosopher…

 

A S  I  A

 

Southern Turkestan: Turkish Sages, Wise Scholars

AFGHANISTAN Mevlana Belh Horasan Afghanistan Ebul Kasım Unsuri (968–1039). Belh Afghanistan Ebul Fazl Beyhaki (995–1077). Gazne Afghanistan Hücviri Ö.1072 Gazne Afghanistan Ali Şir Nevai Herat Maveraünnehir Afghanistan Kemaleddin Bihzad (1450–1537)….

 

Turkish Scholars 646-1321: From Tonyukuk to Yunus (675 Years)

INSCRIPTIONS WISE TONYUKUK 646 – 726 Inner Mongolia, China BİLGE KAĞAN 683-734 Turkistan KÜLTIGIN INSCRIPTION 684-731 Turkestan   RELIGION Abu Hanifa 699-767 Mesopotamia SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS 700 …

 

Turkish Karakhanid Scholars in Turkestan

Until the 1450s, the main centers in Turkish Thought were Orhun Valley, Transoxiana Basin and Great Khorasan Basin, the last one covering the geography…

 

Turkish Scholars in China

OĞUZ HAN 234-174 BC China, State Administration “More sea, more moray (rivers) / Sun flag, sky kurikan (tent)” http://bitig.org/index.php?lang=e&mod=1 http://bitig.org/index.php?lang=e&mod=1 www.yenimesaj.com.tr/?haber,2015520 TONYUKUK first 646-724…

 

Turkish Scholars: South Asia

EBU HANİFE  699-767 Mesopotamia Küfe IRAK Islam If what I don’t know was under my feet, my head would touch the highest floor…

Thought Basins: Source Geographies of Turkish Masterpiece Scholars

Ebu Hanife from Tirmidhi waves to Mevlana in Belh. Abu Hanifa, 699-767; Tirmidhi, Uzbekistan (grandfather) Musa al-Khorezmi, 780-850; Khiva, Uzbekistan Imam Maturidi, 852-944; Samarkand, Uzbekistan Farabi, 872-951; Farab…

Turkish Founder Scholars and their Experts

20 FOUNDER REFERENCE 1 + 3 + (2×8) : 20 VISION:  OGUZ KAGAN, 234-174 (BC); Necati Demir, Prof. CURE:   TONYUKUK 646-724; Ahmet Tasagil, Prof. BİLGE KAĞAN…

Turkish Scholars

Starting with Hilmi Ziya Ülken’s 1933 book History of Contemplation, our most studied thinkers are over 100 in each of İhsan Fazlıoğlu’s and Fatih…

10 Great Scholars Visiting Samarkand in Turkestan

Xuanzang, 7th century Hyech’o, 8th century Maturidi, 10th century Khayyam, 11th century Fahreddin er Razi, 12th century Chishti, 12th century Mevlana, 13th century Taftazani, 14th century Ulugh Beg, 15th century Kaşi, 15th century   Source:…

Turkish Scholars in Turkestan

Bursa has produced 5 great Thinkers: Mullah Fenari Kadızadei Rumi Hodja Sinan Pasha Taşköprülüzade Ahmet Bursalı Mehmed Tahir Bey ……………………………………… MOLLA FENARI   1350-1430 Transoxiana Khorasan Religious Scholar,…

 

50 Sciences developed by Founder Turkish Scholars (234 BC – 1321 AD)

SCIENCE (15) 1 Algorithm: Harezmi 2 Astronomy: Harezmi, Farabi, Biruni, İbni Sina, Ömer Hayyam 3 Algebra: Harezmi 4 Natural Sciences: Biruni 5 Pharmacology: Biruni 6 Physics: Biruni, İbni Sina 7 Geodesy:…

 

Geographies of Founder Turkish Scholars

Our own sociology and civilization geographies are always ignored in Turkey’s Ideas Agenda.  Especially the North Atlantic intelligence services have turned our world of thought…

Turkish Scholars: The Shanghai Five Countries

Uzbekistan: Ebu Hanife, Harezmi, Imam Buhari, Tirmizi, Maturidi, İbni Sina, Necmettin Kübra Kazakhstan: Farabi, Yesevi China: Tonyukuk, Kaşgarlı Mahmut, Vapşı Bakşı Kyrgyzstan: Yusuf Has Hacip Russia: İsmail Gaspıralı,…

 

Turkish Scholars and their works, Chronological: 100 Scholars + 1000 Books

who read who wrote who read who wrote Who would untie this knot The sheep used to travel with the wolf If the idea is no other The sheep…

 

Turkish Scholars: Azerbaijan

ABDULKADIR EL MERAGI first 1360-1435 Iran Azerbaijan, Iran Iran İMAMEDDİN NESİMİ 1369-1417 Shamakhi of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan FETHULLAH ES-SHIRVANI 1417-1486 Azerbaijan Schema, Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Mathematics, Astronomy, Geography…

 

Turkish Scholars; Khorassan

CONSIDERS YEARS REGION CITY COUNTRY STATE VOCATION NOTES RESOURCES NOTES JABIR BIN HAYYAN first 721-815 Khorasan Tus, Iran IRAN Chemistry “Dominate Chemistry, dominate the world” MERUZΠ  ………-869…

 

First Turkish Scholars&Thinkers, 600-1000

INSCRIPTIONS/TENGR AND MEETING WITH REVEAL 600 TONYUKUK 646-724 BIGE KAGAN 683-734 CULTIGIN INSCRIPTION 684-731 Abu Hanifa 699-767 SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS 700 JABIR BIN HAYYAN 721-815 …

 

Turkish Scholars: The Mesopotamian Region

EBU HANIFE: 699-767, Mesopotamia Kufa IRAQ Islam If what I don’t know was under my feet, my head would be worth the highest…

 

Turkish Scholars in the Atlas of Philosophy

Please click the links. Turkish Thinkers in the Atlas of PhilosophyPhilosophy Atlas Al Biruni Abu Hanifa Abul Vefa El Buzecani Akbar Jalaluddin Al-Farabi Al Ghazali …

Turkish Scholars: Russia (Northern Line)

ŞİHABUDDİN MERCÂNΠ 1818-1889 Russia Kazan, Tatarstan Russian Empire It is known that Şihabuddin Mercani has twenty-nine large and small works on History-Biography, Fiqh-Usul and Akaid-Kelama. The city ​​where he…

 

Monographies of US Scholars on Tonyukuk (646-725)

Please click: kitap.pdf                          Monographies of US Scholars on Tonyukuk (646-725) (1939)  Sprengling, Martin: Tonyukuk’s Epitaph. An old…

Corpus of Founding Philosophers-Scholars

If you search for “Founder Thinker”, “Founder Thinker” in our literature, you will not find any publications or references. However, when you search for “Constituent…

 

Farabi – Avicenna – Ghazali Line – 250 Golden Years (870 – 1111)- Horasan Lighting

FARABI IBN SINA Ghazali Turkish Manuscripts Institution Publications Science and Philosophy Series http://www.yek.gov.tr/Link/ShowLink?LINK_CODE=58&LAN_CODE=TR Kitâbu’l-Burhân/Fârâbî Fârâbî (d. 339/950), who has a founding role in the tradition of Islamic philosophy, is one of…

 

Turkish Scholars and India

Our first Indologist and our first great traveler, astronomer, mathematician, natural scientist, geographer and historian, our first investigative thinker Biruni (973-1048) started his journey…

Tonyukuk’s Scholar Identity

Bilge Tonyukuk’s thinking aspect was only noticed in the 20th century after thousands of years. What we need is the enlightenment of sciences from A…

 

İran: Cities and Philosophers

Ali Kosh, Tappe/Tepe-i Ali Kuş Ö2 Dehloran, Khuzestan, Iran: site on the east side of the ‘Fertile Crescent’ with evidence of plant breeding and animal…

 

 

E U R O P E

 

Balkan Scholars

Abasıyanık, Sait Faik Turkish Storyteller (1906-1954) Abdülhak Molla, Turkish physician, divan poet (1786-1853) Adıvar, Halide Edip Turkish novelist (1884-1964) Aeschylus (B. 525-456) Ancient Greek Philosopher Aeschylus: Greek Tragedy…

 

Europe Born Turkish Scholars, Thrace, Turkey

EMRULLAH EFENDİ Kırklareli, Lüleburgaz SELİM SABİT EFENDİ Kırklareli, Vize CERRAHZADE Edirne İBN KEMAL (KEMALPAŞAZADE AHMET ŞEMSETTİN) LEVNÎ Edirne Muhyi i Gülşeni Edirne ÖMER LÜTFÜ BARKAN Edirne ŞEVKET AZİZ KANSU Edirne ŞEVKET SÜREYYA AYDEMİR Edirne ŞEYH BEDREDDİN Edirne Civarı NAMIK KEMAL Tekirdağ NEV’Î EFENDİ Tekirdağ, Malkara

 

Europe Born Turkish Scholars, Romania

KEMAL KARPAT                                             …

Europe Born Turkish Scholars: Hungary

İBRAHİM MÜTEFERRİKA Kolojvar PEÇEVÎ İBRAHİM EFENDİ Peçuy

Europe Born Turkish Scholars: Bosnia

Aliya İzzetbegoviç Bosanski Samac Philosopher, Statesman Ferruh Başağa Saraybosna Artist, Painter Hersekli Arif Hikmet Mostar Divan Poet, Writer Hoca Mehmed Kadri Nasıh Efendi Hersek Youngturk, Journalist, Writer Matrakçı Nasuh Saraybosna miniature painter Mehmet Nergisi Saraybosna Divan Literature Writer, Kadi Sabit Uziçe Divan Poet Sakallı Celal…

 

Europe Born Turkish Scholars: Austria

İLBER ORTAYLI Bregenz, Vorarlberg NERMİN ABADAN UNAT Viyana

 

Europe Born Turkish Scholars: Albania

FEBÜL’ULÂ MARDİN İşkodra İSLAM ÇUPİ Tiran KOÇİ BEY Görice Lütfi Paşa Avlonya

 

Europe Born Turkish Scholars: Kosovo

ÂŞIK ÇELEBİ Prizren CELALZÂDE SALİH ÇELEBİ Vulçitrin, Priştine ENVER ZİYA KARAL Osmaniye HİKMET KIVILCIMLI Priştine

 

Europe Born Turkish Scholars: Bulgaria

Abdurrahman Şeref Güzelyazıcı Petriç Literature Adem Şakar Razgrat Public Administrator, Literature AHMET CEVDET Lofça Ahmet Emin Atasoy Tırgovişte Poet, Literature Ahmet İhsan Şumnu Teacher, Writer Ahmet İsmail Ümidi Kızanlık Literature Ahmet Kemal Şumnu Intellectual Ahmet Merdivenci Suhindol Scientist, Author Ahmet Özhan Silistre Turkish art music Ahmet Refet Rodoplu Eğridere(Ardino) Journalist, Author Ahmet Şerif…

 

Europe Born Turkish Scholars: Macedonia

Ahmedi Rıdvan Ohri MEHMED ALİ AYNÎ Manastır, Serfiçe MEHMET ÇİFTEOĞLU Manastır MUZAFFER TUFAN PROF Gostivar SUBHİ EDHEM Manastır, Macedonia YAHYA KEMAL BEYATLI Üsküp YUSUF HAMZAOĞLU Raptiştah

 

Europe Born Turkish Scholars: Greece

AFET İNAN Kassandra AHMET RÜSTEM EFENDİ Mitilini ATATÜRK Thessaloniki CAHİT ARF Thessaloniki CEMİL MERİÇ Komotini Esad Efendi Ioannina HASAN TAHSİN BANGUOĞLU Drama HEZARFEN HÜSEYİN EFENDİ Kos HOCA İSHAK EFENDİ Epirus, Greece HOCA TAHSİN EFENDİ Ioannina İSHAK EFENDİ (BAŞHOCA) Ioannina İSMAİL FERÎD Ioannina KENAN RIFAİ Thessaloniki MACİT GÖKBERK Thessaloniki MAZHAR OSMAN USMAN Alexandroupoli, Sofulu MUSLİHİDDİN…

 

 

 

IN TURKEY

Quotes by Prof Ioanna Kuçuradi, Turkish Philosopher

Human rights are human rights, but not all human rights are human rights. Many things are said about people, but people are never mentioned. Every great…

“İbn-i Sinâ of Our Age”: Prof. Dr. İsmail Hakkı Aydın

“I am sure that high-minded figures such as Ibn Rushds, Ibn Sina, Imam Ghazali, and Farabi, who are the pride of all the Islamic…

 

Professor of Neurosurgery, Ismail Hakki Aydin

Professor of Neurosurgery Date of Birth: February 11, 1954 Birth-place : Trabzon, TURKIYE  Education :  Primary School, Macka 1965 High School, Trabzon 1971 Medical School, Ataturk University…

Turkish Scholar, Prof Ismail Hakki Aydin.

This Is Me As I See Myself   “This Is Me As I See Myself”. EC Neurology 8.3 (2017): 66-69. Ismail Hakki Aydin Ismail Hakki Aydin Yes, I am impatient….


Great Scholar: Mehmet Genç (1934-2021)

There are very valuable Turks one by one. But I don’t think a social group that acts collectively with knowledge motivation has yet been formed. But…

Turkish Scholars: Aegean Region (Afyon, Aydın, Ayvalık, Denizli, İzmir, Uşak)

There are only 4 thinkers on the list before the 19th century. ŞEMSEDDİN AHMET KARAHİSARİ  1468-1556 He is considered as one of the three most important…

Our Blind Scholars: Aşık Veysel and Cemil Meriç

He is our greatest Thinker; Veysel.. What we call vision is not in the seeing eyes, but it can be much deeper in the blind. For…

Turkish Scholars: Edirne

 

ŞEYH BEDREDDİN 1357-1420 Rumeli Edirne Neighborhood Turkey The Ottoman Sufi, philosopher and kazasker of the Vahdet-i Body school of Sufi Islamic Sufism dealt…

10 Great Scholars in the Ottoman Empire

Davud El-Kayseri  Ananedeki Alim Tipimiz Davud-el-Kayseri Molla Fenari Kadızade Rumi Hocazade Ali Kuşçu Taşköprülüzade Akşemseddin Katip Çelebi Takiyüddin Ahmet Cevdet Paşa http://www.yenisafak.com/yazarlar/mahmuderolkilic/Yazar-Arsiv Adnan Adıvar: Osmanlı Türklerinde…

 

Turkish Scholars: Bursa

Bursa has produced 5 great Thinkers: Mullah Fenari Kadızadei Rumi Hodja Sinan Pasha Taşköprülüzade Ahmet Bursalı Mehmed Tahir Bey ……………………………………… MOLLA FENARI   1350-1430 Transoxiana Khorasan Religious Scholar,…

 

Istanbul Scholars

In the Thinkers Anthology brought together in Istanbul Thinkers, the criterion is not that the thinkers were born in Istanbul, but that their thoughts…

Scholars Examining Our History of Thought: İhsan Fazlıoğlu

https://avesis.medeniyet.edu.tr/ihsan.fazlioglu/cv

 

Scholars Studying the History of Turkish Thought

of Turkish Intellectual History, initiated in the 19th century by İsmail Hakkı İzmirli, which  is  at the top of the list, were crowned…

 

Europe Born Turkish Scholars: Istanbul, Turkey

A.HAMDİ BAŞAR ABBAS VESİM EFENDİ ABDULLAH NECATİ AKDER ABDURRAHMAN ŞEREF ABDÜLBAKİ GÖLPINARLI ABDÜLHAK HÂMİD (TARHAN) AGOP DİLÂÇAR AHMED MİDHAT AHMED MUHİDDİN Ahmed Tevhîd Efendi AHMET GÜNER SAYAR AHMET HAMDİ TANPINAR AHMET NAZİF (SAHAFLAR ŞEYHİ ZÂDE) AHMET RİFAT…

 

Turkish Scholars

 

Hikmet Özdemir (Political Scientist)

Political scientist (b. 1951, Kahramanmaraş). He is a graduate of the Turkey Middle East Institute of Public Administration. He received a doctoral degree from…

 

“Atatürk, in War and in Peace” by Hikmet Özdemir

SULTAN YAVUZ – Implemented by the Association of Journalists and financed by the European Union (EU) “Democracy for Media/Media for Democracy Programme” hosted Prof. Dr….

 

Turkish Philosophers: Classical Period

Epics are one of the most important cornerstones of Turkish thought, identity and creativity. In the inscriptions, it is called “Bengü Stones” with…

Proverbs of Civilization with Philosopher Prof. Ihsan Fazlioglu

“No civilization collapses without decaying” Ibn Khaldun “In the classical tradition, travel is an integral part of knowledge. It thickens knowledge.” “It is the dead, not…

 

 

 

 

 

Gorali (sandwich)

 

 

 

Gorali shop on Fındıkzade Kızılelma Street

Gorali is a type of fast food that started to be made after 1950. It is made from a mixture of diced carrots, mashed potatoes and a small number of peas, resembling a sausage and Russian salad placed between sandwich bread, and served with mayonnaise, ketchup and pickles.

History

Gorali sandwich logo, registered by the Gorali family.

Gora sandwich was first produced by the Goralı family, who came from the Gora region of Kosovo. Gorali family laid the foundations of Gorali sandwich by opening a shop in Kızılay, Ankara, which they named after themselves. The sausages, which were first served as portions, were later served in sandwich bread in 1950 and became a brand in the process. Prominent names from the family were Şefik Gorali and Ferit Gorali. Ferit Goralı immigrated to Istanbul after his military service and opened a shop on Kızılelma Street in Fatih’s Fındıkzade district and sold different products besides Gora sandwiches (1961). When he died 30 years later in 1991, his property passed to his children.

Antique Istanbul: Historical Peninsula

Turkish Literature abroad

Güney Dal

by Dogan HIZLAN

Sometimes I feel the lack of an anthology of the works of our authors abroad. Turkish writers should be evaluated in Turkish literature, no matter what language they write.
In this period, it is very difficult to get information about the situation of our writers living abroad.

Previously, a committee called TEDA was formed in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism under the chairmanship of Mustafa İsen, and I was a member there for years. An author who made a deal with an outside publishing house received a certain contribution for the book to be published in that language.

The works of many of our writers were just published in that language.
At the Frankfurt Book Fair, I was seeing the translations of Turkish authors in many publishing houses, especially in German publishing houses.
There were also meetings about those writers.

The year we were the Guest of Honor in Frankfurt, the proportion of such events had increased. I had prepared one of the two books on literature, and the other by the late Füsun Akatlı. These should be brought up to date with a new regulation.
I will return to this subject again.

Many anthologies are being published, I feel the lack of an anthology with the works of our authors abroad.

Recently, a poet friend explained the reason why anthologies were not sold. According to him, the publication of poems on the Internet prevented the sale of anthologies.
Turkish literature in Germany was evaluated from two fronts. The situation of Turkish writers living in Germany writing in Turkish and Turkish writers living in Germany writing in German.

Turkish writers should be evaluated in Turkish literature no matter what language they write. Those written in German should also be included in both anthologies.
Going there for political reasons Fakir Baykurt with Dursun Akcam are the benchmarks of this assessment.

Books published in Turkey Yuksel Pazarkaya, also made translations from Turkish literature to German and from German to Turkish and established this connection.

Literature abroad

I recently read the novel ‘A Short Journey to Gallipoli’ by Güney Dal, a writer who has lived in Germany for a long time
.
I have met: Fakir Baykurt, Dursun Akçam, Yüksel Pazarkaya, Aras Ören, Feridun Zaimoğlu, Habib Bektaş, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Akif Pirinççi…
I am waiting for such an anthology.

Source: https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kitap-sanat/yurtdisinda-edebiyat-41867266

 

As Turkey Exports Cross the Great Wall of China: China and Innovative Markets

15 years ago, Istanbul was not like Hong Kong at all, it is very similar now, shopping malls, consumer society.  Hong Kong serves three continents: Asia, America, Australia. Istanbul also serves three continents: Europe, Asia, Africa,

The Chinese started their Istanbul flights on 8.8.1998.


An important similarity between Hong Kong and Istanbul is related to HUMAN VALUE: -An important part of Hong Kong’s population is composed of Shanghainese refugees who fled Shanghai with the entry of Mao’s Red Army and kidnapped their capital. – Istanbul also became rich with immigrants from Rumelia (Bulgaria, Yugoslavia) and immigrants from Greece. – Refugee psychology and the traumas they have experienced have connected people to life more and have led them to be more hardworking and productive in their work.

• Contrary to popular belief, the highest price in exports to 50 countries is in the Chinese market

• I learned Mandarin Chinese to localize in a global market,
• I worked directly with customers to be “Facing the Market”,
• I used a Chinese name (Ai Li Min-people who likes public service),
• Corporate In order to strengthen the identity and not restrict our product range, I changed the name of the company used as International Glass to Şişecam China, I used the Chinese name Cinşan (Gold). On Export Roads… 1989, Guangdong, China
• I searched and found the big glassware importers from China , they were five fingers of one hand; I sold Paşabahçe products to all of them.

• I created a Chinese web page,

• Although I am from Şişecam Chemistry group, I have achieved great increases in Paşabahçe’s exports to China. • I attended the leather fair in China (Shanghai), the glassware fair in Hong Kong, • prepared the China Marketing Plan for the Chemicals group and Paşabahçe. • I sent Chinese chemical and glassware customers to Istanbul  Tankrom: The adventure that started with 100 tons of export to China in 1987 has increased to 50,000 tons today. The Tankrom brand, which was predicted to be bankrupt by its competitors, became the world leader in exports.

Culture difference
When I went to the showroom opening of my Chinese client, I was very surprised when the host, Mr. Ng, plucked and ate the first piece (as a thigh) from the whole chicken brought to the middle, in an environment full of guests.
When I asked my Chinese secretary why, he said that the chicken is a symbol of fertility and that he ate the first meal in accordance with his faith, so that his office would bring abundance.