2008 In Turkey

	2008 In Turkey Events in the year 2008 in Turkey. Incumbents President: Abdullah Gül Prime Minister: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Speaker: Köksal Toptan Sport 11 May – Turkish Grand Prix won by Felipe Massa of Brazil. Deaths 4 January – Gündüz Tekin Onay 22 January – Orhan Aksoy 8 March – Sadun Aren 20 April – Gazanfer Bilge 10 May - Leyla Gencer 10 August – Cezmi Kartay 19 November – Gündüz Aktan References {{Year in Europe, 2008 Years of the 21st century in Turkey 2000s in Turkey Turkey Turkey Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	President Of Turkey The president of Turkey, officially the president of the Republic of Türkiye (), is the head of state and head of government of Turkey. The president directs the executive branch of the national government and is the commander-in-chief of the Turkish military. The president also heads the National Security Council. The office of the president of Turkey was established with the proclamation of the Republic of Türkiye on 29 October 1923, with the first president and founder being Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Traditionally, the presidency was mostly a ceremonial position, with real executive authority being exercised by the prime minister of Turkey. However, constitutional amendments approved in the 2017 constitutional referendum abolished the office of prime minister, and vested the presidency with full executive powers, effective upon the 2018 general election. The president is directly elected by eligible Turkish voters for a five-year term. The president of Turkey is referr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gazanfer Bilge Gazanfer Bilge (July 23, 1924 – April 20, 2008) was a Turkish sports wrestler of Circassian descent who won the gold medal in the Featherweight class of Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1948 Olympics. Biography Gazanfer Bilge was born July 23, 1924, in Karamürsel, Kocaeli. He began wrestling in his age of 17, and was admitted to the national team during his military service. After winning the European champion title, he became the first Olympic gold medalist for Turkey in freestyle wrestling in London, England. Gazanfer Bilge retired in 1953 from active sports after his exclusion from participation at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. The International Fair Play Committee (CIFP) in Paris, France, honored him with the "2002 Public relations - Service to Sports and Community Trophy". Gazanfer Bilge also owned a large overland coach business. He donated to the town where he was born and grown up a primary school for hearing-impaired students, a vocational school f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2008 By Country 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. Etymology English ''eight'', from Old English '', æhta'', Proto-Germanic ''ahto'' is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European '' oḱtṓ(w)-'', and as such cognate with Greek and Latin , both of which stems are reflected by the English prefix oct(o)-, as in the ordinal adjective ''octaval'' or ''octavary'', the distributive adjective is '' octonary''. The adjective ''octuple'' (Latin ) may also be used as a noun, meaning "a set of eight items"; the diminutive '' octuplet'' is mostly used to refer to eight siblings delivered in one birth. The Semitic numeral is based on a root ''θmn-'', whence Akkadian ''smn-'', Arabic ''ṯmn-'', Hebrew ''šmn-'' etc. The Chinese numeral, written ( Mandarin: ''bā''; Cantonese: ''baat''), is from Old Chinese ''priāt-'', ultimately from Sino-Tibetan ''b-r-gyat'' or ''b-g-ryat'' which also yielded Tibetan '' brgyat''. It has been argued that, as the cardinal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2000s In Turkey S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Years Of The 21st Century In Turkey A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recogn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2008 In Turkey Events in the year 2008 in Turkey. Incumbents President: Abdullah Gül Prime Minister: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Speaker: Köksal Toptan Sport 11 May – Turkish Grand Prix won by Felipe Massa of Brazil. Deaths 4 January – Gündüz Tekin Onay 22 January – Orhan Aksoy 8 March – Sadun Aren 20 April – Gazanfer Bilge 10 May - Leyla Gencer 10 August – Cezmi Kartay 19 November – Gündüz Aktan References {{Year in Europe, 2008 Years of the 21st century in Turkey 2000s in Turkey Turkey Turkey Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gündüz Aktan Gündüz Aktan (1941–2008) was a Turkish diplomat and politician. He held various diplomatic posts, including ambassador of Turkey to Greece and ambassador of Turkey to Japan. After leaving diplomatic post he joined the Nationalist Movement Party and was elected to the Turkish Parliament in 2007. He served as a deputy for one year until his death in November 2008. Early life and education Aktan was born in Safranbolu on 7 August 1941. His father, Bekir Suphi Aktan, was a governor. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University in 1962. Career Following his graduation Aktan worked at the Ministry of Interior. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1967. He was the permanent representative of Turkey at OECD in Paris between 1970 and 1973. He was the ambassador of Turkey to Kenya from 1973 to 1975. He was the permanent representative of Turkey at the United Nations in New York City between 1977 and 1981. He was appointed ambassador of Turkey to Swit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cezmi Kartay Cezmi Kartay (1920 – 10 August 2008) was a Turkish civil servant and politician. Early life Kartay was born in İzmit. After Haydarpaşa High School, he graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University. He served as a district governor (Kaymakam) in the districts of Kemaliye, Akyazı, Çermik and Baskil. After 1960, he was appointed as the province governor ( Vali) of Malatya, Tekirdağ and Gaziantep Provinces. While serving in Malatya, he was also the acting mayor of the city for four years. Kartay and CHP After the coup of 1980, the activities of Republican People's Party (, which is usually credited as the founder of Turkish republic in 1923, were suspended by the military rule so called National Security Council (MGK). But the party was not closed, and Cezmi Kartay was appointed as the trustee of the party. On 16 October 1981 however, the party, like other parties, was closed by the MGK. Kartay and SODEP After a year and half, the MGK decided to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Leyla Gencer Leyla Gencer (, née Çeyrekgil; 10 October 192810 May 2008) also known as La Diva Turca was a Turkish operatic soprano. Gencer was a notable '' bel canto'' soprano who spent most of her career in Italy, from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s, and had a repertoire encompassing more than seventy roles. She made very few commercial recordings; however, numerous bootleg recordings of her performances exist. She was particularly associated with the heroines of Donizetti. Early life Leyla Gencer was born in Polonezköy (near Istanbul) to a Turkish father and a Polish mother. Her father, Hasanzade İbrahim Bey (who took the surname ''Çeyrekgil'' under the Surname Law of 1934), was a wealthy businessman, whose family was from the city of Safranbolu. Her mother, Lexanda Angela Minakovska, was from a Roman Catholic family of the Lithuanian aristocracy (she later converted to Islam and chose the name ''Atiye'' after her husband's death.) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]