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From willow to laurel

What Happened? The Ottoman Empire addressed original problems with original solutions. Its success is evident because it was built not through imitation but by creating and constructing anew. We can…

Turk cafe January 12, 2025

Politics

A comparison of two nations of immigrants: Türkiye and USA

Historical context Türkiye and USA share the common feature of being established by migrants in late modernity. These two nationalities are the last to make a homeland. One might say…

Turk cafe September 1, 2024

Politics

Political currents of thought and transitivity between views in the Ottoman Empire

Durin late 19th century and to the collapse of the state in 1923, there were four currents of thought in Ottoman Empire: 1. Islamism, 2. Ottomanism, 3. Westernism 4. Turkism.…

Turk cafe August 10, 2024

Society

Rome could have prevented fall through culturization and Turkey too

The greatest state that has ever been, Roman Empire has fallen to "barbarians" in the fifth century. It wasn't supposed to be eternal, yet there were ways to sustain it.…

Turk cafe April 18, 2023

History

The biggest mistake Turks did and the main problem of the eastern societies

As the old saying goes, mistake is another name for expereience. However, as Richard Feynman says "Your mistakes don't define who you are. It's what you do after you have…

Turk cafe April 10, 2023

Politics

Eurasian Problems and Turkey caught in the crossfire

There is a fire raging in Eurasia, the area between Europe and Asia, that's right in front of the Turkish borders. The disaster struck the Semitic people first, Iran, Balkans…

Turk cafe March 30, 2023

Society

Is Turkey collapsing?

That's what Dimitri Kantemir tought in 1711, a vassal of Ottoman Empire as Moldovian prince. He was a distinguished intellectual who saw Russian expanse as an opportunity, only to be…

Turk cafe March 23, 2023

History

Women’s Movement in the Ottoman Empire

There was also a change in the position of women in the westernization effort of the second constitutional period. With the thought that women are in a different position in…

Turk cafe March 4, 2023

Language

Should I learn Turkish? Ottoman Culture and other reasons to learn Turkish

INTRO Our aim is to emphasize the resources of motivation for Turkish learners. We assert that there are unexplored opportunities and strengths in Turkish language motivation. Caught between modernists and…

Turk cafe December 21, 2022

Society

Best top-down social change example is Turkey

Turkey is a country that has recently shifted its culture from an Islamic one to a western secular alternative. All the World leans onto the same way, yet Turkish example…

Turk cafe November 22, 2022