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Amoun, 70, a blind Palestinian refugee who lived in the town of Aleppo in Syria, rests on a beach moments after arriving along with another forty on a dinghy in the Greek island of Kos, crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece, August 12, 2015. The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) called on Greece to take control of the “total chaos” on Mediterranean islands, where thousands of migrants have landed. About 124,000 have arrived this year by sea, many via Turkey, according to Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR director for Europe. The Turkish coast is seen in the background. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis)
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Anatolia
Two very lavishly made and decorated guns made in Trabzon in the Ottoman Empire.
Former: Late 18th-first half of the 19th century. Total length: 140,7 cm; barrel length: 108,6 cm; calibre: 13,0 mm
Materials: Steel, silver, copper, wood, corals, fabric.
Techniques: Forged, carved, chased, gilded, blued, inlaid.
Latter: Early 19th century. Total length 82,2 cm; barrel length 53,2 cm; calibre 14 mm; ramrod length 58 cm
Materials: Steel, wood, silver, corals
Techniques: Forging, carving, chasing, engraving, cast, gilding, nielloing, damascened with gold.
Both housed in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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The famous Istkilal Street typically sees anywhere from 1-3 million people walk down it daily. As I walked the entire 1.5km (1 mile) street on April 10th during the Coronavirus pandemic, I estimate I passed only a few hundred people, at most, almost all of whom were wearing face masks and keeping their distance from other passersby. Normally the street is so busy that you can barely walk a few meters without bumping into another human being, but on this day I was able to saunter down the almost-deserted street.
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Cuerda seca tiles. Turkey, Konya, late 14th c.
“A brilliant but short‑lived episode in the history of Anatolian ceramic production was the appearance of tiles decorated in the so‑called cuerda seca ("dry cord”) technique. In the cuerda seca process, thin bands of waxy resist maintain color separation between glazes during firing, but leave behind “dry cords” of unglazed tile. This technique seems to have been introduced to Turkey from Iran as early as the fourteenth century. These tiles are also distinguished by their curving shape, recalling their original placement—probably on the exterior of the polylobed tower of the Mevlana Turbesi (Tomb of Rumi) in Konya.“
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