The Boomerang Colors of Life
Have you ever thought that life is a riot of colors?
Maybe life starts with pink. When we think of the past days, those days are always pink, we remember that everything looked rosy to our eyes. We name some memories of the past with different colors rather than pink, but when we remember those days as the past, we always refer to them as 'pink days'.
**The color of happiness and love is always pink.** The days when we are unhappy, sad and fragile are black. Life is a bit like a boomerang. We are the ones who determine the color of the boomerang we hold. As we throw our lives somewhere, it returns to us, taking the color of the places it goes. What I mean is that we are the ones who paint our life, give it color. The point is to choose what color to paint life. In order to choose a beautiful color, it is necessary not to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of daily life, not to lose our will to live, and to love both ourselves and life as much as possible.
Nature changes color four times in a year. However, the colors inside us can change dozens of times in just one day. We actually hide a huge rainbow inside us. If we can realize the richness of color within us, we can control the change of these colors.
**So, is it us or others who determine the colors of our lives?**
If we wait for others to change the colors of our lives, these people can also influence the important decisions we make and we may find ourselves in a situation we do not want at all. Preventing people from interfering with our colors means living a life according to our own wishes and taking responsibility for our own lives.
If we use the joy of life, the power to understand life and the creator within us well, we can choose the most suitable ones from the rainbow within us. Life loves those who love it.
Life has given us a beautiful rainbow. People are characterized by life according to the colors they choose from this rainbow. Humans were not created to be superior to each other, but to be different from each other. Each person has a unique feature. The important thing in life is to realize our own characteristics and do our duties properly.
**One of the most beautiful colors among us is a smile**. A small smile is perhaps the most valuable gift that can be given to a person. A smile is the power of happiness and love and is like a passionate boomerang. Hopefully it will come back to you.
I always smile at the people who work there, especially when I go to a restaurant or a shopping mall. I say hello to them and ask them how their day was. The service industry is one of the most difficult industries in this world. People working in the service industry are constantly trying to please other people, and this is not an easy thing because some people look for excuses to make trouble or just to frown. That's why I always smile and be polite to a waiter working in a restaurant. Likewise, I always smile and be courteous to a cashier working in a supermarket.
When you observe these people a little carefully, you can realize how tired they are from dealing with other people. Well, when they're upset, you can put a smile on their face when you smile and start a kind conversation. One of my favorite things is to make people who work in this industry smile. **For a moment, they forget the tiredness of the job and their faces light up.**
Of course, being friendly and courteous not only to the people working in these sectors, but also to all the workers we receive service in return for money, can help them find some peace.
Try this as soon as possible. **You will realize that the smile boomerang you throw at people will make you happy too.**
Stay with love and smile a lot :)
My Paradise Country
First of all, hello everyone. Today, I want to talk to you about my paradise country, Turkey. Like most people, I am a country lover and I will of course speak highly of my country.
It can be said that Turkey, the heir of thousands of years of history and a deep-rooted civilization, serves as a bridge between the continents of Asia and Europe. As a result of this geographical feature, this country plays an active role in most of the land, air and sea transportation between Asian and European countries. Also, my country has straits connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Today, many oil and natural gas pipelines extending from Asia to Europe also pass through Turkey. I think it would not be an exaggeration to say that our country gained the status of an international energy corridor thanks to the passage of natural gas and oil pipelines. However, our strong ties with the peoples of the countries that were under our rule at the time of the empire are also an important feature. Thanks to all these features, Turkey has begun to have a greater say in world politics and to direct the political path of the world.
However, its geopolitical position not only offers many opportunities to our country, but also causes our country to encounter some threats and dangers. The material and spiritual values of our country have always attracted the attention of the world. Some power groups, who do not want Turkey to become stronger, are trying to weaken our country's ability to move by keeping us busy with internal problems. The same power groups want to disrupt our unity and solidarity by creating confusion within the country. In the past, various internal conflicts and coups in different geographies of the world were carried out many times by similar power centers. Especially South American countries can be given as examples for such confusion.
In the 1920s, when we left the monarchy and adopted the republican regime, we unfortunately lost Mosul, which was within our official borders as a result of the turmoil caused by some foreign powers in the country, as per the international agreements made after the First World War.
The most effective defense system of a country is built with the unity and solidarity of its citizens. To date, this defense system of our country has not been overcome by any power. The victory we achieved in the 1920s is the result of our struggle with this understanding. In a speech he gave after the invasion of our country and our victory against the powerful countries of the world, Atatürk referred to the spirit of unity and solidarity of the nation and emphasized that we should preserve this feature in order to be strong in the coming years, and the method to achieve this is that young people should receive good education and make efforts to develop their personalities with the spirit of unity. underlined its importance.
In order to do all this, a strong state presence is needed. The state ensures a systematic work in keeping the nation together and protecting the values and transferring them to the next generations. State means order. The state means to develop and grow. That is why we Turks care about the existence of the state and believe that it is necessary to protect it.
It can easily be said that our state has a stronger position in the world in recent years, especially thanks to the successful projects it has carried out in the field of defense industry and its foreign policy. As an indication of this position, Turkey, which supports the legal government for the protection of Libya's country integrity, prevented Haftar, a putschist general, from seizing the country. There was also a strong Turkey, which played an active role in Azerbaijan's liberation of the Karabakh region from the 30-year occupation of Armenia. In addition, as a result of Turkey's successful foreign policy, terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq did not find a chance to survive. We became the country that struggled the most against all illegal elements in the Middle East. Although some countries try to show it as supporting terrorism, Turkey has been among the countries that inflicted the greatest blow to terrorist organizations.
I wrote this article because I am disturbed by the black propaganda being carried out against my country in the world and so that at least a certain number of people can see the truth.
I want it to be known that Turkey does not support terrorism in any way. On the contrary, we are one of the countries that fight terrorism the most and suffer the loss of life in this regard. I should also underline that we are seeking our rights in accordance with international law in our struggle for Mediterranean dominance.
Stay with love…
Vacation Memories of a Workaholic
Being a workaholic or being a manager... These two concepts sometimes go into each other. You may perceive staying at the job and dealing with every detail personally as management. You may believe that being a manager prevents you from taking a vacation. Even if you are on vacation, you can leave your phone number for your employees to reach you. If they don't call you, you will definitely call them. You think things won't work out without you.
Now, I would like to tell you about the holiday memory of a workaholic friend of told me.
**A Workaholic's Vacation Adventure**
I couldn't stand the insistence of both my boss and my friends that I should take a vacation, claiming that I was too tired, and I decided to go on vacation.
On Friday, I gathered all my staff and gave a speech to them. They certainly knew what had to be done, but I found it useful to remind everything once again. Once again, I explained the concepts of urgent and important, the difference between the two, and told them to call me if they were in any dilemma. Even though they told me that everything would be fine and that they would get things done easily, I had a feeling that something would go wrong. Still, I managed to convince myself that giving them the opportunity to work without me for a while would be an opportunity to gauge their decision-making skills.
When my wife and I arrived at the resort on Saturday, I wasn't thinking much about work, my main goal was to get away from work and take the opportunity to rest. I should not forget this main purpose of mine. After a good sleep, I went to the beach and sunbathed, trying not to think about anything.
I spent Sunday again, lying on the beach, enjoying the sun and the sea. How tidy they had put the straw umbrellas on the beach, but some of them were worn out. I should have reported this to the hotel reception in the evening. Due to the large number of people attending the dinner, long queues were formed. However, they could have prevented them, this problem could have been easily solved by putting the food types on separate counters and with a few extra staff. If this problem continues tomorrow, I decided to convey my solution suggestions to the hotel management.
On Monday, I woke up with a different excitement inside me. At my workplace, everyone started working, but I was having fun here. My wife seemed to understand what was going through my mind from my eyes and my awkward state. He criticized me for not giving enough time on vacation and asked me to forget about work and focus on vacation. My wife was not wrong because my mind was really on my work. He took me by the hand and led me to the beach and persuaded me to participate in childish events with a few people there. These silly activities were annoying, but I pretended to have fun so as not to offend my wife. Then, I lay on the beach and read a book and spent the rest of the day trying to enjoy the holiday.
On Tuesday, I couldn't take it anymore. After breakfast, I went to the beach with my wife again, but my mind was always on my work. I told my wife that something I ate hurt my stomach and left and went back to my room, and I immediately called the workplace and got detailed information about how things were going.
Even though the employees said that everything went well, I was not sure about it, so I made an effort to learn all the details. When my wife returned to the room, I had already asked all the questions and managed to get the answers I wanted, and I had finished supervising the employees.
The next two days I spent the same way over the phone auditing the business. On the one hand, I was enjoying the sea and the sun, and on the other hand, I was supervising the works by phone. In fact, since I learned that an important meeting was going to be held on Friday, I made phone calls both before and after the meeting, without my wife noticing, to make sure that everything went well.
A week later, I finished my vacation and went back to work. My colleagues said that the vacation was good for me and that I looked very good. I had the pleasure of both taking a vacation and managing the business. Thus, while making my wife happy, I did not compromise my job.
**Being a workaholic doesn't seem like fun at all, does it?**
The World is Full of Happy Dummies
Live stupid, die stupid because when you are smart you are not happy. Stupidity is just as blissful as ignorance.
Stupid people are happy with the situation they are in. Because they don't follow any story. Idiots don't know how to think, they adopt the opinions of others, but they also have interests. Their way of thinking is as follows: “**If he's thinking about it, I should be thinking about it too. If he wants to have it, I should have it too.**”
It is fine to be stupid, but a person who can understand that it is beautiful to be stupid cannot be stupid. Being aware of the world is a barrier to being stupid. Every person in the world wants to be happy. Sometimes he realizes that the price of happiness is stupidity and he wants to pay the price, but he can't. A person who does not realize that he pays the price for the decisions he makes is an idiot. So some people left stupidity to others and chose to pay the price with thought.
How are things going in this world? People sometimes ask.
However, the answer to this question is known to everyone. There is love in many things in this life, or we wanted to believe it. There's a little bit of love in everything. There is love even in what you do. We have collected unforgettable memories thanks to love, but fools do not know about it. Because they don't want to collect memories. They live in herds, focused only on savoring the moment.
We have a saying that the wolf grabs the one who leaves the herd. This is actually a saying that tells that people are strong together and will be weak if they are alone. Of course, this does not mean that a person does not make sense on his own or that he will deny his own existence. However, idiots perceive unity as ignoring a person's personality values. However, a person can both protect his self and create a strong community as a unity.
At some point in your life, you will meet these idiots. Life won't always go the way you want it to. There will be moments when you decide to go on a life journey with a person. The reason for the journey is not important, the important thing is that the person you are traveling with is reliable. Every journey has its own risk. Whether this journey is for love or business, it must be done with reliable people. You should choose the people you want to come with you when you set off. Stay away from people who just choose to live in the moment, who do not have an opinion of their own, who cannot exist on their own without being included in any community, that is, idiots. If you start out with such idiots, you will end up alone in the middle of the road because such people will often abandon you halfway.
**The important point is, never let anyone near you who let you down even once.**
Stay with love...
The World is Hidden in My Mother's Eyes
I was still a small child. I think I was 9-10 years old. My mother got sick and needed surgery, but I wasn't ready for it at all. At that age, you don't have enough ideas about surgery or death. That's why I had a hard time understanding and accepting this situation. In short, I was a kid who had a lot of questions in his head that he didn't know the answer to. The most frightening of these questions was: “**Is my mother going to die?**”
In fact, life is a combination of many possibilities. We live our lives as a result of hundreds of possibilities coming together every day.
I have never forgotten the day my mother had surgery. My father put me in the car and took me to the hospital. My mother waved to me from the window of her hospital room. That day, I did not understand why we did not go to my mother, waited in the hospital garden. After a while, my aunt brought me a huge chocolate and said that my mother had sent it.
I didn't eat the chocolate that day because it might have been the last thing my mom gave me. Thinking about it made me sad, but I didn't cry because no one was crying. My mother was going to have surgery the next morning and I couldn't stay with her. My aunt said that the doctor uncles at the hospital did not allow young children to stay there.
That day, while my aunt was staying with my mother, we returned home with my father. When I went to bed at night, I remember praying to God: “Lord, if you take my mother with you, I will never eat chocolate again. I will always keep this chocolate, I will not eat it, but I will be offended by you.”
**I guess I was taking the courage from the purity of my childhood's heart to say these things to God.**
Then I remember crying. My pillow was so wet that I had to turn the other side. Who would have thought that so many tears could flow from such small eyes?
That night, I thought that love might be limited, and I stopped loving my girlfriend at school. I thought that I should love my mother the most, if I love someone else, my love for my mother will decrease. I was a little kid after all.
Most of all, I thought of my mother's beautiful eyes. **I thought about my mother's eyes so much that the whole world fit into those beautiful eyes.** It was as if the whole world was hidden in my mother's lakes.
I loved only my mother until morning that night and prayed to God a lot. In fact, that night I may have discovered what it means to truly love. I am who I am today because of the strong feelings I had for my mother that night. That's why I know how to love well. I understand well the importance of making the person I love happy and valuing them. At least I hope to be such a person.
My mother's surgery was successful and she recovered quickly. My mother's health is very good even now. The whole family can say we are healthy. Thank God…
I think everyone should understand the value of their family well. We must show our love before we lose them. Of course, this also applies to all our loved ones.
Come on, do something nice tonight and hug your loved ones tight. Tell them how much you love them or do little things to make them happy.
**And stay with love. Hope to see you…**
Songs Never Lie
I'll give up on you, but the songs don't allow it. It is not the songs that upset us, but the things that the songs remind us of. That's why the songs are not to blame, they should stop blaming. You may be upset enough to try anything today. Sometimes you feel so hopeless that you think you can't do anything and realize that there is no one around. Hopeless and alone…
That's when a few drops of tears fall from one's eyes, but crying is beautiful because crying is one of the best ways to remember that you are human. Never mind the songs, you're crying because of love. Never mind, let everyone say you cry because of love.
**Does it matter why you're crying? Isn't it important that you have a heart that is beautiful enough to cry?**
Immerse yourself in the songs, they won't lie to you. They hurt most of the time, but they never lie. You know what will happen, it will hurt, but you still can't give up on the songs. There are some songs that pop up out of nowhere. While drinking coffee in a cafe or walking slowly on a wet street, some songs come out and you can't help yourself, you find a break and you listen to that song over and over again and cry.
I don't remember in which song I forgot you. Actually, at this point, I have a contradiction because even if I don't remember the song, I remember forgetting you. I guess I haven't forgotten you. Maybe I wanted to forget but I couldn't.
Can a person deceive himself? Yeah.
I fooled myself more than you. I wanted to believe that I forgot, when I couldn't. While I can't remember what he ate last night, I am a man who cannot forget the woman he loved years ago. I don't remember what I ate in the evening, but I know that I was thinking of you at that moment and even now the only thing on my mind is you.
I love the way you stay on my mind, but on the other hand, I want to get rid of you. Many people may have experienced this. At the end of this relationship, you left me behind when you left, and I left you behind, whom I can not forget and whose dreams I always kept by my side.
**Actually, I can't look ahead because I left you behind.** Let alone sailing to new adventures, I cannot even open the door in front of me without you.
I like to say goodbye, but it's different when you're gone. It breaks my heart to know that you will never come back. I loved you as much as morning sleep. You were like the new shoes of a poor child that he bought on the morning of Eid.
You are now a passenger train traveling between cities for me. I am a passenger at the station where that train stops. I'm like a traveler who doesn't want to go anywhere, but me. I am a passenger with nowhere to go, who will always wait at that station to see that train again. Maybe one day I'll see him come again, spitting smoke. I will be waiting, graying hair, with the lines drawn by the years on his face, in that desolate station surrounded by snowy mountains.
Until then, goodbye my love...
It Was a Crime to Love as a Child
I know that no word can deter someone who wants to go, but hope is the biggest helper of people in this life. A person is trying to do something, to find a way, to deter the person who wants to go, knowing that it is not possible.
Okay, she's so far away from me now, but the distance between us is only a phone call or a letter. I call her but she doesn't answer my calls, she doesn't respond to my messages. I don't even know if you read my messages or not. I wanted to do something permanent. I didn't like her for just a text message. I loved her so much that I wanted to talk about it for a long time. Even if she didn't make the decision to return, she should have realized this fact. I had to get over it completely.
One letter... I wrote many pages, perhaps too many to fit in an envelope. I threw the letter in the trash after I wrote 7 pages, thinking it wouldn't read. Why did I write this letter? What was the reason I write such a long letter? How can it be a pain to have a man write a 7 page letter? I realized that it wasn't pain that made me write this letter. So what was it?
I bought a new piece of paper and wrote "Maybe everything is on the back of this paper" on the front. I didn't write anything else, I put it on that paper and envelope and mailed it to her.
That's life, sometimes it's not enough to fix things. Sometimes it may be necessary to start all over again.
It was when I was just starting primary school. On the second day of school, I said “I love you” to one of the girls. I loved her as much as a 7-year-old can love her. Actually, I've heard that in a movie before. I was too young to understand exactly what that sentence meant. If I could understand the meaning of this sentence, I probably wouldn't be able to construct that sentence so easily.
The girl complained about me to the teacher. I guess she didn't quite understand the meaning of that sentence either. The teacher put me in front of the chalkboard and said in front of all my friends that I couldn't love that girl because she was my friend. I don't think the teacher knew what he was saying either. I thought why can't a person love his friend when I was punished for loving on one leg in front of the board. Moreover, the girl's grandmother came to the school. The girl's grandmother looked at me with hateful eyes. She treated everyone as if I had committed a grave misdemeanor, but I was perfectly comfortable. However, after that day, I decided never to say “I love you” to anyone again. Maybe, I was going to write this sentence, but no one would ever hear from me again. This had been my decision. I was angry. frankly. “What is this? Why do you come over me so much just because I said I love you? Let your daughter be yours, she's ugly anyway,” I said to myself.
After a while, I fell in love with another girl. Moreover, this girl was much more beautiful. She had golden blond hair and large grass green eyes. I loved her until the fifth grade, but I never told her. A person cannot love his friend. I'm not saying that, that's how they taught it. In my opinion, school is a place that steals time from one's life. How sincere can a place where love is not taught?
I kept on loving but I never said it. That sentence remained as a sentence I heard in movies. I always scribbled over that sentence in the books I read.
If I love again today, I will be silent again, I will not tell. Phrases like this only happen in movies. If we meet in a movie one day then I will tell you that I love you. And not only do I say it, I kiss you like a poet who has returned to his homeland kisses the land of his homeland.
I kiss you so much that you understand what it's like to love. You know if love is just about movies? I love you so much that the moments when I stood on one leg in front of the board in elementary school die. You live, I love. I don't care if movies have happy endings or not. My love never ends, it starts again every time I kiss you. always again…
That's what I was talking about in that 7-page letter to her. I was talking about how I loved her but why I never told her. Unfortunately she will never read this letter and I will never be able to kiss her again. I'm still on one leg. This time, I am neither 7 years old nor in front of the school board. I'm a big man who suffers from wounds inflicted in the past.
Forget it all. I know what to do. I'm sitting here crying and whining. There is no need to call, text or write letters. I have to jump in my car and go to where she lives. I should knock on his door directly. And when she opens that door, I have to stick to her lips without saying a word.
Yes, that's what I should be doing. It will come back somehow. And maybe those magic words will come out of my mouth "I love you"
A Lonely Wild Pear Tree
I am a tree standing at the edge of a large wheat field. It's like I'm the keeper of this field, not a tree. They call me wild pear. On the edge of this field, I've been waiting alone since the day I was born. I have no friends, not a single tree growing near me. I can see there are other wild pear trees in the distance, but they are too far away for me to talk to. The poplar trees standing on the side of the road are not very pleasant conversations because they are so arrogant.
I would love to have someone to chat with on long winter days; maybe a wild pear like me, or a wise plane tree, a beautiful cedar or oak...
Winter is really tough around here. When it snows, the field is covered like a white blanket and the snow doesn't melt until spring comes. On cold winter nights, I feel very cold under strong winds because all my leaves are falling. Then neither man nor bird will come to me. Before winter comes, I send all migratory birds to warmer regions.
Now that the birds have left this place, my only friend is my shadow. I'm talking to my own shadow, chatting. Do you know what it means for a tree to talk to its own shadow? This is the end of loneliness. At times like these, I consider myself the loneliest being in the world.
But winter only lasts for a few months, and then spring comes. I will be so beautiful in the spring! I open white flowers. Moreover, I am not as lonely as cold winter nights. Nearby villagers come to cultivate the field. They rest in my shade to escape the scorching summer sun. They eat their meals in my shade and even sleep during breaks. Tiny ants crawl around my trunk, little ears of wheat grow under my feet, little larks alight on my branches.
Still, everyone minds their own business. Can a few birds or ants heal the loneliness of a tree? The farmers who work in the fields don't really care about me anyway. Except when they sleep in my shadow.
One day an old man came to me; He had a white beard and a bright face. Apparently it was the last day of my solitude. The old man had an apple seedling in his hand. With trembling hands, he planted that apple seedling somewhere near me.
**Then that old man said to me:** "Look, wild fig, this apple sapling will accompany you when it grows. So protect and watch over it, it's your responsibility from now on."
**I couldn't stand it and replied**, "You made me very happy by planting that apple tree there, old man."
Then a conversation started between us.
**Old man:** This apple seedling will not only make you happy, it will also make the birds, ants and other plants happy. I am an old person, but planting this seedling here did not tire me at all. When this apple tree grows and bears fruit, insects, birds and humans alike will be able to eat these fruits. This will be my charity. God will be pleased with me for helping people and other living things.
**Wild pear:** Old man, you are a very kind and thoughtful person. Some people do not love us at all, they do not value us at all. I've never seen a forest before, I don't know forest trees. But migratory birds told me stories about forests. Sometimes a fire breaks out and all the trees in the forest are burned to ashes. Sometimes a person would come and cut down trees with an ax in hand.
**Old man:** Yes, that's right, unfortunately! I don't understand why people act like this. However, people need you to live. If you go extinct, the oxygen needed for humans to breathe will be greatly reduced on this earth, and they have no chance of survival. Don't worry though, my tree friend, there are many people in the world who value trees like me. We both protect you and plant new saplings whenever possible.
The old man stayed with me until evening that day. It was as if all the loneliness that had accumulated in my life had disappeared thanks to him. He promised to bring his grandchildren on his next visit. The old man said he wanted to feed his grandchildren my fruits and tell them how precious I am. These words of the old man touched me very much.
I waved after the old man for a long time. Then I heard a voice next to me. My little apple tree friend called me. I had to bend over a little to hear it. My little friend said "hello" to me.
Welcome dear apple, today is your birthday. Don't worry, I will protect you. Hope to meet beautiful people in our blue world...
Thank you for reading. **Treat the trees well. In fact, plant a tree sapling whenever you can.** See you...
Rain Means Mercy
I saw cotton cotton clouds in the sky...
It is as if they will be a tactile soft pillow, I will lie on them and dream in the land of fairy tales… Then, black clouds came from afar. Quickly, they approached our city, blowing like smoke. My mom always says Black clouds are Rain Loaded. You shouldn't go out without an umbrella when you see them on New Year's Eve. When spring comes anyway, I always have my umbrella with me. It rains the most in spring. You ask why? For the nature, which has woken up from its winter sleep, to be revived in spring with fertile rain water. With the rain, meadows turn green, trees bud and flowers bloom. Rain clears the earth and sky. It washes trees, streets, roofs of houses with its waters. It is such an oil that neither flowers are hurt by water drops, neither people nor animals… Millions of water droplets descend from the sky with the same slowness.
Our elders say “It is raining mercy” when it is raining. I thought to myself that rain is indeed a great mercy sent to us by Allah... Would fruit trees ever bear fruit without rain water? Do those beautiful apples, plums, pomegranates ripen? How do all kinds of vegetables grown in the soil grow and taste without rain? Then how do those lakes, streams and dams fill up without rain? Do we have water to drink, if it never rains! Our elders are right to call the rain mercy.
But sometimes it happens that the rain clouds are invisible in the sky… The season is summer, the weather is hot. The crops did not grow. The soil has dried up. At such times, we open our hands and pray to God to make it rain, just as we ask everything from our Lord. This is called the prayer for rain. There is a very beautiful rain prayer that our Prophet made. Here is his story:
God give us rain
During the time of our Prophet, sometimes it did not rain, the earth would be without rain, people, animals and plants would be without water. At such a time, while our Prophet was giving his Friday sermon, a man from the congregation called out:
“O Messenger of Allah, neither my crops nor my animals could be watered because of the severe drought. Your prayer will not be turned down, will you pray to God to make it rain?"
The Prophet did not refuse the man's request and opened his hands and said, "O Allah, give lifeguard, sweet, abundant, fruitful, long, not late, quick rain. O Allah, water your servants and animals. Spread your mercy, fix your dead country," he prayed.
There were no clouds in the sky at this time. The sun was burning the earth, trees and gardens with all its scorching heat. However, after our Lord's prayer, clouds began to appear in the sky. Afterwards, raindrops began to fall on the dried ground, as if our Lord was declaring that he would not abandon the hands that were opened to him empty-handed. He watered the water-hungry soil abundantly for a full week. Trees, birds and plants were feasting. Especially the birds, who could not find even a drop of water to drink, drank water from the small puddles formed on the ground and played games. While they were flying in the sky, singing joyful songs, they thanked God for the falling rain.
Experts say that there will be water scarcity in the world in the near future. Water is life, the source of life. Whatever religion you belong to, pray to God that he will not leave us thirsty. If he sees that the number of his servants who pray for water increases, God will have mercy on us and not leave us without water.
See you…
I am a little star
I am perhaps a little star among the millions of stars in the sky. I was just born because my lights are white. When I'm a little older, I'll be a blue light like the big stars around me. I shine alone in this great space. Nobody cares about me because I'm small. The thing is, I got really bored.
Why don't other stars want to chat with me just because they've grown up?
But I can find a lot to tell them. There is only one Moon who does not leave me alone, She is the only friend of all little stars. I heard that children all over the world also love Aydede. Sometimes he comes up to me and chats with me but not always, he has a lot of work too. Since the sun gets light from his uncle, he has to spend most of the day with him. At night he works to illuminate the world.
Another quiet night. The stars are napping. Some are talking among themselves. I try to shine with all my might to be noticed more, but in vain because big stars shine brighter.
What kid would notice me in this situation? I wish I could participate in the games of the children of the world. Now they are growing in the lap of a sweet sleep. It must have been pretty late, because almost all the houses have their lights off. I should get some sleep too.
It's like a pair of eyes are looking at me from the window of a small house. Is that kid over there really looking at me? There are no other stars around me. I was far away from the other stars while I was thinking about something tonight. Then he must be looking at me. Yes, yes he is looking at me. I winked at him, he must have known I saw him. It's over, now there's someone who notices me too. I wish he was friends with me. I always tell him stories of twinkling stars.
Now he's waving at me. Now I'm sure he wants to be friends with me too, he.
-Hello, what's your name?
Oh my god, he wants to talk to me too.
-My name is Junior. I mean, that's what people here call me, but my real name is Alpha. What is your name?
-My name is Sule.
-What a beautiful name you have.
-You have a beautiful name too, Kid. Will you be my friend?
-Of course I'm very happy about that.
- Son, I love the stars so much. I always look out the window at night. You are so beautiful, bright. But you are always alone. Is there a problem?
So even a small child in the world noticed my loneliness. The stars here did not notice.
-It's not really a big deal, Sule. I'm just a bit of a star so others don't really care about me.
-How so, are there big or small stars among the stars?
Yes, we stars are born, grow up, grow old and die like humans.
-No dear?
-Yes, I was just born. We are not like you. It is formed by the compression of gases. When I grow up, I'll be a young star shining blue. Then, just as people change when they get older, my lights will turn yellow, red, and eventually orange when I get older. When I'm old, I'll be destroyed in a big explosion, but don't worry, all the pieces of me scattered into space will be a new star again. Such is life.
-Understood. There is one more thing I've always wondered, while I've found you, let me ask you: Where do you disappear when the sun comes up, are you playing hide and seek like my mother said?
-Actually, there is no such thing. We stay where we are. But you don't hear it in your place. The world is constantly spinning. When Uncle Sun's lights come to where you are, we are invisible from his lights. So our lights cannot reach you.
-Do you know Sun?
-Of course. He becomes my distant relative. He's actually a star, but he can't really take care of me because he's busy.
-He's too big. You're all younger than him, aren't you?
-No it is not. There are stars much bigger than Uncle Sun here, but they look very small because they are so far from Earth. Sometimes you can see them as a dot, but they are really huge.
-I was really surprised. I thought you were all so small and so close to earth. Anyway, I should have gone to bed already. Thank you Junior for this pleasant conversation. Let me tell you one last thing, the sky would probably be very empty without you. Good luck to you.
- Thank you, Sule. Good night. I'll wait for you here again tomorrow night.
A Friend That Warms Our Hearts
A new day begins for us as the sun sends its first rays to the mountains, valleys, hills and even the chimneys of the houses. The darkness of the night gradually fades, the stars shine brightly in that black sky, they suddenly hide behind the sun. This is the best time of the day. Everyone wakes up; birds, cats, trees, people, all nature. Shops open, hot bread comes out of the oven. Footsteps begin to be heard on the street: Those who go to work, passengers, students leave behind closed doors one by one and merge into life.
Yes, the sun is rising and a new day begins for all living things. The whole world is illuminated by its lights and warmed by its warmth. The sun is our source of life, just like water and soil. The flowers become beautiful with their light; the trees grow green with their light; Children grow up with its light. The rays of the sun give strength to all of us.
The sun is like a giant lamp hanging in the sky. We can walk the streets with him, looking out the window of our room. Thanks to their lights, the trees are green, the seas are blue, the flowers are colorful.
When the season is winter, the sun seems a little offended to us, it is not visible in the sky. It's still getting light everywhere, but it doesn't give the world enough warmth to wear short-sleeved t-shirts. Ice is hanging from roofs, cats can't travel much, our hands and even noses are freezing. But the world turns, time passes, winter ends and spring comes again. The sun rises behind the mountains and regains its former joy. The ice on the roofs and the snow on the ground are slowly melting. Every new day, a friend who makes us smile and warms our hearts returns to us. The trees are happy with the warmth they give and bloom colorfully. Butterflies and bees start flying happily again. Hibernating animals wake up by yawning. All nature has come to life and the world is festive.
But do we know enough about this hot friend?
**Let's see what he will tell us.**
Hello, I'm Sun. You know me from hot days. Let me tell you a little about myself: I am the largest celestial body in the Solar System with the same name as me. I am actually a big star. 9 planets including the world you live in revolve around me. Since these planets are under the influence of my gravitational force, none of them can leave their orbits. The world revolves around me at a speed of 108 thousand kilometers per hour. Think of this velocity like this, 60 times faster than the velocity of a bullet from a gun. So while you are reading these lines, your world has already traveled thousands of kilometers :)
If my gravitational force dropped even just a little bit, your world would be thrown into space with extraordinary speed. If I had a strong gravitational pull, your world would be very close to me this time, so it would melt away from the heat. It's a very delicate balance.
I am made up of very hot and constantly burning gases that constantly cause very powerful explosions on my surface. The heat that warms your world is the heat produced by these explosions. I mean, I'm like a huge ball of fire bursting all over it. I am very important to your world because I am your source of light and heat. But I can hurt you, especially in the summer, so be careful not to stay outside too long. Also, if you don't want your eyes to be hurt by my bright light, you shouldn't look at me with the naked eye for long.
Even though I am far from your world, I can send you enough heat and light. According to calculations made by your scientists, 0.2% of the heat I emit into space reaches you. Even this rate is enough to warm your heart. Under normal conditions, the temperature of my surface is 6000 degrees, and the temperature of my interior is 12000 degrees.
Don't forget to wave at me as we head behind the mountains to relax in the evening. I wouldn't hurt your eyes while watching me at those hours. If you look at me very carefully, maybe you can see me winking at you.
Another one of the bedtime info stories has come to an end. Now time to sleep. Maybe you want to tell stories like this to your children who have sleep problems instead of classic fairy tales.
**Thanks in advance to those who read. See you later.**
I Traveled the World as a Child
When I was a kid I had a library. A small and cozy library standing in a bright corner of my small room… I used to put my textbooks on the lower shelves of this library, and my reading books and magazines on the upper shelves. Of course, I would reserve a separate place for my comics in my library. **My favorite comic was Tintin**. I loved reading Tintin's adventures. I was excited every time he solved the case and caught the criminals with his friend and cute dog. Tintin was a very intelligent person, and that impressed me a lot. Also, I remember Tintin's hair was so funny.
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My father bought me this library when I was 10 years old and he told me: "Now you're grown up, you should have a library where you can put your own books"
I didn't have many books then. When we put the library in my room, I could only fill its top shelf. As the days passed, the other shelves gradually began to fill with books. Sometimes my father bought a book, sometimes my mother…
After a while, I had brand new fairy tale books, story books, poetry books, magazines and of course comics. Then let me try to count the ones I remember among the books I have.
For example, Candy Orange (I still remember **Zeze and his frog.** I was very upset when Zeze crushed her frog with her bike. That's why I didn't read a book for a week. However, I started to read it again because I was afraid that my books would be sad.), Child's Heart, Pink Pearl Kaftan, Haunted Mansion, Stardust, Dede Korkut Stories, Keloğlan Tales, Polyanna, Aladdin's Magic Lamp, Finger Boy and many more. there was.
The day the furniture makers brought my library, my mother and I chose the most beautiful place in my room for her. We put my library right in front of my bed. That way, I would be able to see my books as soon as I woke up.
As I was lining up the first books in the library, my mother said: **“Books are your best friends. You shouldn't upset them at all"**
I asked my mother, "Why do books get sad?" I was a little kid and didn't know why books could be upsetting.
I still remember what my mother said that day. My mother said, “Books, when you forget them, leave them dusty on the library shelves; They get upset when you don't know their value, when you don't ask them something you don't know. They are not ornaments, they want their covers to be opened and their pages to be turned. They look for a curious pair of eyes reading them. Just as they grieve when we forget them, they rejoice when we read them.”
**At that moment, I decided not to upset my books at all.**
Sometimes when I entered my room, I felt that they were waiting for me. They looked like knowledgeable friends who had a lot to share with me. As I opened their pages and read them, I imagined them as if they were telling me stories. I always asked them questions that were on my mind. Books have always been generous to me. They taught me everything they knew, they didn't hide any information.
I learned many things from books. Thanks to my books, I got to know people I had never met, and I visited places I had never been with them; African forests, poles, oceans, even outer space. I went on a world tour with "Around the World in Eighty Days".
In short, I had a very good childhood thanks to my books.
**So, what was your favorite book as a kid?**
Roof of the Planet Watermelon Shell
For the first time that day, the little swallow cub fluttered towards the sky. It opened and closed its wings, opened and closed it… Then it rose higher. He looked down and saw that his nest was far below. Then he looked in front of him, He was like a fish swimming in the blue sea of the sky.
**“hello sky,” he called, “hello sun, hello clouds, hello wind, hello moon, hello stars”**
He too could now hear the songs of the wind, listen to the tales of the moon, and be friend with the stars. Because he was in the sky now. He was in the endless blue.
We may not be able to rise to the sky by flapping wings like a small swallow. But with one glance, we can dive into the deep blue of the sky.
Come on, wherever we are and whatever we're doing, let's raise our heads and watch the sky for a while.
If you have noticed, the sky has a different blue beauty at every hour of the day. In the morning, he sends us sweet breezes that enter our room through the open window. At noon, the clouds dance on its blue streets with happiness and enthusiasm. In the evening, it offers a unique view that turns into a red color as the sun goes down, for us to watch side by side with our lover. At night, the sky becomes a different world. The stars and the moon, which are hidden from the eyes during the day, adorn the sky brightly, just like a ballroom.
**It's always nice to watch the sky. An endless blue… a very deep blue…**
Have you looked carefully, can you see any cracks or roughness?
No matter how much we look, what we can see is a magical blue. No matter how hard we try, we cannot see what is behind that blue.
**Well, have you ever thought, what is behind that magical blue?**
This deep and magical blue, that is, the atmosphere that surrounds our world, actually consists of many layers. We live in the troposphere, which is the layer closest to our earth. All celestial events and clouds also occur in this layer. Troposphere is the most suitable layer for living things. The other layers are as follows: Stratosphere, ozonosphere, mesosphere, thermoster, ionosphere and exosphere. How many layers are there, right? The sky consists of 7 layers. These seven layers come together to form the atmosphere.
The atmosphere surrounds our world like a watermelon peel. The harder the watermelon rind, the harder it is. In fact, the atmosphere is a layer as hard and durable as concrete. The reason it is tough is to protect the world. Because many small and large meteorites can come to our world from space. Thanks to the atmosphere, these meteorites cannot damage our world by colliding. In addition, it filters all harmful rays in space so that living things on earth can continue their lives. Therefore, the atmosphere has a very important task.
So, if we think of the earth as a big house, the sky is really like a ceiling that protects us humans.
Yes, tonight I told my nephews this story instead of a fairy tale. **They love the bedtime stories I tell**. I both entertain them and help them learn something. Our lesson today was the sky.
I hope you liked my story too. See you…
The Planet Tells How It Met Man
It was millions of years ago. When I emerged as a result of a big explosion, I did not know where I came from. I couldn't know because God created me out of nothing.
I'm an old planet now, but I was young once too. At that time I was alone, like a ball floating in the depths of space. Neither you were on me, neither an animal nor a plant.
Then God created the soil. The soil became a dress for me, its color changed every season. It turned white in winter, green in spring, and yellow in autumn. Plants came out on me, everything fed from my soil. Then the animals were created, you still didn't exist. I was living a quiet life with the plants and animals on me. After a while, God wanted to create a living thing that was unlike any living thing that had ever been created; namely you. God gave you the mind that he did not give to plants and animals, and made you the most honorable of creation. Using your mind, you would be able to distinguish good from bad, find your creator and worship him. That's why God created you for this purpose. So that you can live a life worthy of him and be a good servant.
The man who was created was Adam. As far as I know, before God created Adam, God said to the angels, "I will create a human being out of clay". The angels said, "Will you create someone who will cause corruption on earth and shed blood?" But Allah said: "I know what you do not know" and created Adam. When he gave life to him, he ordered all the angels to bow down to the first human for respect. All the angels fulfilled the order of Allah, but Iblis said: "You created me from fire and Adam from earth. I am superior." he was arrogant and did not want to prostrate to Adam. And Allah expelled Iblis from heaven because he disobeyed his order.
Then God created Eve to be Adam's wife. Adam and Eve lived a happy life in paradise. Then God said to him: "Adam, you and your spouse will settle in Paradise and eat from wherever you want. But do not approach that tree." However, Iblis, who was jealous of Adam and Eve's happiness in heaven, found a way to deceive them and caused them to eat the forbidden fruit. Thereupon, Allah took them both out of heaven and brought them down to earth.
This is how I got to know them. I saw them when they were hovering over me like they were tickling me, when I looked around wondering who was tickling me. When I first saw Adam, he was unsure of what to do. I wanted to talk to him and find out his problem. He said that they had committed a mistake against Allah and that they regretted it very much. He was crying day and night. In fact, he was crying so much that even the angels cried because they could not stand his crying.
I thought if there was anything I could do for them, but all I could do was console them. I silently waited for what would happen. Seeing Adam's distress, God taught him to pray, and he begged God: "Our God, we have wronged ourselves. If you do not forgive us and have mercy on us, we will certainly be among the losers."
Allah, whose mercy is endless, accepted their repentance and forgave them.
Now they were my inhabitants, my first friends. They settled on me, built a house, cultivated my land, had children.
God gave them a long life. Adam lived a thousand years. I lived a thousand years of my life with Him and I loved Him very much. He said goodbye to me on a Friday, when the number of people reached 40 thousand. He returned to his God where he came from.
The Great Man Fighting Against Imperialism #3 (Last Part)
Hello everyone once again. First of all, I would like to state that I am happy to present the last part of the article I wrote in the form of a trilogy. I felt a serious responsibility to complete this series of articles because leaving unfinished what I started is against my view of life. I think this is as bad as a promise not kept. That's why, with this article, I will complete the struggle for liberation of Mustafa Kemal from a lost war by integrating with his nation.
In the second part of the article series, I explained how the Ottoman Empire, which participated in the First World War on the side of the Germans, won the battle on the Çanakkale front under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, and thanks to this, Mustafa Kemal gained national fame as a hero. In this article, I will talk about Mustafa Kemal's leadership in the War of Independence and his taking the title of Atatürk thanks to this reputation he gained.
Thanks to the victory at the Çanakkale front under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, the enemy could not enter Istanbul. However, when Germany lost the war, the Ottoman Empire was automatically defeated. Enemy ships, who could not pass the Dardanelles by fighting, occupied Istanbul by crossing the Dardanelles as if they were on a cruise because of a winner war on paper. This occupation would last for 5 years.
When they showed the navy of the occupation forces to Mustafa Kemal, who came to Istanbul at that time, he made the following sentence:
“**They will go as they came**”
As can be understood from his sentence, Mustafa Kemal did not accept that the war was lost on paper and showed that he would continue to fight.
As the enemy occupied Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, it was very difficult for the Sultan's government to fight. Some pro-western government officials even gave up the struggle and agreed to submit to the invaders. Mustafa Kemal believed that the struggle should start from Anatolia.
Of course, there were also patriotic men who advocated a struggle for independence within the state. Mustafa Kemal Pasha was given the task of "Army Inspector" and on 19 May 1919 he went from Istanbul to Samsun by ferry.
How Mustafa Kemal organized the War of Independence and how he transferred the state's regime from the monarchy to the republic can be better understood when you read the book called "**The Speech**", which he wrote and tells about those years.
When I read what they did, two important points caught my attention. **One of them was the military organization and the other was the political organization**. He succeeded despite all the difficulties because he was able to organize these two at the same time and correctly.
He knew that military organization alone would not be enough to win a war. At the same time, he organized a political organization across the country, enabling not only the army but the entire nation to participate in the war with everything.
One of the first things Mustafa Kemal did was to establish a national assembly in Ankara as an alternative to the one in Istanbul. This was an indication that the decisions of the Istanbul government, which came under the control of the enemy, would be invalid and that the authority was now in Ankara. Thanks to Mustafa Kemal's successes in Çanakkale, many of the other high-ranking army members chose to follow in his footsteps. Ankara was declared the capital in the following periods, which is still the capital of the Republic of Turkey. In other words, the center of the struggle at that time was Ankara.
Mustafa Kemal organized a regional congress in the city of Erzurum, located in the east of the country, and asked representatives from the provinces in that region to attend the congress. Thus, while rehearsing the future national congress, he gradually included the nation into the struggle. This was also a move that paved the way for the whole country to fight in an organized way. After all, the Sivas Congress, which was later organized as a national congress, was held in Sivas, a city located a little more in central Anatolia, and they were asked to send a representative from all provinces in the country to this congress.
This clever strategy of Mustafa Kemal worked well, and the Turkish nation, acting together, put up a strong struggle against the invaders all over the country and preserved its independence.
Especially on the western front, a tough war was fought with Greece, which was supported by the British. For a while, victories were won with the independence struggle of the people in the eastern and southern regions against the Italian and French. Italy and France gave up the occupation and left the country. However, some battles with Greece were lost and the Greek forces came very close to Ankara, but with successful moves, the Turks under the leadership of Atatürk won the war against Greece.
During the war against Greece on the western front, the Turkish nation supported the army, which had limited means, by giving them a wide variety of products such as clothes, animals they kept, weapons, metals to make lead. In fact, Turkish women helped a lot while carrying logistics to the front. As men went to the front to fight, Turkish women carried ammunition to the front in primitive vehicles pulled by oxen. In addition, women worked with pickaxes to repair railways.
The war, led by Mustafa Kemal, was a war in which the Turkish nation participated altogether. This is where the genius of Mustafa Kemal shows itself. After the war was won, Mustafa Kemal showed his genius during the transfer of the government from the monarchy to the republic.
In addition, Mustafa Kemal made various contributions to the development of the country by breaking new ground in many fields such as education, medicine and industry.
He was given the surname "Atatürk" because of all the wonderful things he did.
Yes, the series ends here. I hope it was an enjoyable read for you.
A documentary-like film about the War of Independence for those who want to watch it. You can watch with English subtitle option.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9oXE9Ytm0
The Great Man Fighting Against Imperialism #2
Hello everyone again. More than a week has passed since my first article on this subject. There are several reasons why I am writing Part 2 of the article so late. I had to postpone the 2nd part of the article because I have different business to take care of. Another reason is Rusty's indifference. Unfortunately, this situation negatively affected my motivation! Maybe I should write an article on more important topics. For example, about the dishes that accumulate in the house. Maybe, Rusty will come visit me then because He likes housekeeping more. **He's a brainless bot after all :)**
Maybe this will be my last post. At least I will not have left my work unfinished by completing the series of articles.
Now, let's conclude our series of articles by summarizing the struggle of a nation led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk against the imperialist powers of the world.
In my first article, I summarized the conditions of the First World War. Now, I will talk about what a nation that does not accept defeat and fights for existence right after the war has done.
First of all, before the start of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was weakened both economically and politically. Especially the wars with Tsarist Russia that lasted for 100 years were quite abrasive. The empire, which could not follow the technological developments in the world well enough, was also behind in war technology.
As it is written in the history books, the murder of the Archduke of Austria by a Serbian nationalist was only a pretext for the already ripe war. Some thinkers argue that the war was waged deliberately by certain groups in order to overthrow the monarchical regime in the world, and that the assassination of the Archduke of Austria was a spark for the realization of this plan. This is a topic that is broad and detailed enough to be the subject of another article.
Lets continue…
In fact, the Ottoman Empire did not participate in the war when it started. At that time, in the imperial administration, there was a political formation consisting of young officers who dethroned Abdülhamit Han, who was the powerful ruler of the time, with a coup d'etat. This group was the “İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti”. This group actually wanted to go to war on the side of England, but their request was not accepted. Many statesmen did not want to go to war. The empire had fought for 100 years and was tired. However, the management group of excited young officers bombarded the Russian coast by hoisting the Turkish flag on German warships to enter the war. This attack on Russia, which was in the group where Britain, France and several other countries united against the Germans, led the empire to enter the war on the side of Germany.
Except for the Çanakkale front, where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk first proved himself, the empire fought against the Russians and the British on many fronts, both in the east and in the south. The weary empire resisted well on these fronts.
When it was learned that the British and French navies were on their way to seize the control of the straits, the German commander Otto Liman von Sanders was appointed to the head of the army sent to defend the Dardanelles.
The first defense was made against British and French ships aiming to reach Istanbul by crossing the Dardanelles. Since the naval power of the Ottoman Empire was very limited, it was planned to prevent the passage of ships by firing artillery from the shore. The Empire had one minelayer, but it had a limited number of mines. The name of this ship was Nusret Minelayer. This ship, after the enemy had finished minesweeping, placed the mines in the sea parallel to the shore late at night to confuse the enemy. This was unexpected for enemy ships and the next day both British and French large ships struck these mines and sank.
The coastal artillery batteries also managed to inflict heavy damage to the enemy fleet. Of course, the ships also inflicted heavy damage by firing the batteries on the shore. Corporal Seyit, who served in one of these artillery batteries, signed an event that went down in the history of world war.
He could not shoot because the mechanism of a cannon that places the bullet in the barrel malfunctioned. Meanwhile, **Seyit Corporal lifted the cannonball with a weight of 270 kilograms and loaded it into the ball**, and with the shot fired, another large enemy ship was sunk. The statue of the corporal Seyit, which is depicted while lifting the cannonball, still stands in the area where he lived.
The genius of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk began to emerge when the British and French, who could not pass the Dardanelles by sea, took action to seize the region by landing on the shore.
Von Sanders Pasha was not very good at determining where the enemy would land. However, since he was a commander, his orders were followed and precautions were taken where he wanted. Mustafa Kemal, who knew the region better and was a very clever soldier, predicted the area where the enemy would land and was right. Mustafa Kemal, who acted with a small unit under the pretext of patrolling the landing zone, came into warm contact with the enemy. Mustafa Kemal, who correctly predicted the landing zone and took precautions, stopped the advance of the enemy with an extra move and changed the course of the war.
When the soldiers of the unit, which he commanded and whose bullets ran out in a short time when he entered into a hot conflict with the enemy, began to retreat, Mustafa Kemal Pasha ordered the soldiers to attach bayonets and lie on the ground. The order he gave to the soldiers was exactly as follows:
**“I do not order you to fight, but to die. In the time that passes until we die, other troops will replace us.”**
This move of Mustafa Kemal prevented the landing troops from gaining a solid position by advancing into the interior of the region. While Von Sanders could not make the right decisions in the later stages of the Dardanelles battles, Mustafa Kemal Pasha proved himself thanks to his correct predictions and successful interventions, and was able to be appointed as the commander of the front. Afterwards, he managed to throw the enemy out of Çanakkale with many different moves such as night cavalry raids. Thanks to the Çanakkale victory, Mustafa Kemal Pasha was declared a hero and gained fame throughout the country.
The process that would make Mustafa Kemal Pasha Atatürk started in Çanakkale. I think it would be better to complete this series with a 3rd article because there is still a lot to write about. So I want to take a break here.
See you in the next article…
The Great Man Fighting Against Imperialism
I would like to talk to you about **Mustafa Kemal Atatürk**, a great commander and statesman who changed his destiny by preventing the disintegration of a country with his struggle. Actually, this will be a series of articles because it would be unfair for him to summarize what he did in just one article. Moreover, explaining all the stages of the process will enable us to better understand what He is doing.
With the end of the 1st World War, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk wrote his name in history with golden letters with his struggle against the imperialist powers. Perhaps, many of you may have heard of His name, but I think some of you have not, and such a great man should be known to the whole world.
In order to understand the story of how the Ottoman Empire, founded by the Turks, resulted in territorial losses and its regime changed and became a state that continued to exist as the Republic of Turkey, thanks to Atatürk, it is necessary to know why and how the First World War began. Now let's take a look at how the conditions for the world's first great war were formed.
**Europe's Awakening**
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In the Middle Ages (375-1453), when the Islamic civilization lived its heyday, free thought and science did not develop in Europe, which was under the pressure of the Catholic Church. The Church controlled both political, economic and scientific activities. The "Dogmatic Thought" system, in which church discourses were accepted as true without questioning, dominated Europe for almost a thousand years. However, with the 15th century, voices and criticisms began to rise against the Catholic Church in Europe.
One of the developments in Europe in the 16th century was Geographical Discoveries. As a result of **Geographical Discoveries**, the European states that opened to the ocean both discovered the Americas and reached India, which is known as the source of wealth of the east, by sea. They got rich by transporting the resources in these discovered regions to their own countries. Thanks to economic development in Europe, science, art and literature developed rapidly. The period in which these developments took place was called the Renaissance, which means "rebirth". With the Renaissance, reason and science came to the fore and dogmatic thoughts began to be questioned.
As the reactions increased, the Catholic Church began to lose its power and control over the society. Finally, after the process called the Reformation, the Catholic Church had to correct itself and withdraw from the political and scientific fields. Europeans, freed from the oppression of the Catholic Church, began to develop and enlighten rapidly under the guidance of reason and science. In this period called the Age of Enlightenment (17th century-18th century), science developments gained speed.
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European states invented steamships and established weaving factories by using the knowledge they acquired over time for technological developments. This gave birth to the industrial revolution. Small production workshops were replaced by large factories, while manpower was replaced by machines. As a result of the rapid production of the machines, the market grew and the need for more raw materials emerged. European states bought the materials they needed from countries that were not yet industrialized and sold the products they produced to these countries. This led to the emergence and rapid growth of the understanding of colonialism. Britain established a great colonial empire. Other European states tried to do the same. The **colonial race** that started between the European states increased the competition for raw materials and markets. World War I is a result of this rivalry.
I tried to explain what happened before Atatürk's great struggle, both in general and briefly. Here I end my first article. However, this is not the end, it is the beginning. Our story is just beginning. I'm taking a break here so that the article is not too long and you don't get bored while reading it.
**See you later in the story. Thank you for reading…**
Capitalism and Communism are brothers #2
Hello everyone again. After a few days break, we continue our topic from where we left off. When I look at the number of people who saw my previous article, I see that the community did not show much interest. I don't think there are people who are very curious about the world's political and economic system, neither its past nor its present. But knowing how the world's economic and political past unfolded can help to understand the present. More importantly, it can enable us to act consciously by seeing what awaits us tomorrow.
Now I want to briefly summarize why I think capitalism and communism are brothers.
In my previous article, I mentioned that families who were powerful and knew how to trade established the British East India Company and thanks to the developing ships, they had the opportunity to sell products of the east such as silk and spices at high profits to the West. They made a great fortune by selling opium to countries such as India and China . At the end of this process, the first steps to create today's economic system were taken and the banking system was established. In fact, at the end of this process, HSBC bank was established by these trading families. As a result of the researches, it was revealed that companies operating in many different fields today have ties with HSBC. Companies that have become world giants in many fields such as energy, electronics and chemistry have official connections with this bank. The reason why I emphasize this point is to show that the companies that direct the world trade and economy are connected to a few centers.
This is how the monster called capitalism grew. However, there is another important point here. It is the industrial revolution. Thanks to the high capital obtained, resources could be allocated for research and development. This resource was not only due to eastern trade. The ability to build ships powerful enough to cross the oceans also increased geographical exploration. After Christopher Columbus, who went to sea to reach India, discovered the Americas, an extraordinary amount of capital emerged as a result of Europe's seizure of both the gold and silver mines and agricultural products of the American continent by oppressing the indigenous people there. This large capital that emerged led to an increase in scientific research and the invention of new machines. Thus, the industrial revolution took place. Thanks to the industrial revolution, increased production led to an increase in trade and the growth of the capitalist beast.
The first victims of the capitalist monster are the citizens of China and India, who are used to opium. However, the persecution and persecution of the South American Indians caused the capitalist beast to become fat by feeding on Native Americans.
Human nature will oppose exploitation in one way or another. Families who wanted to dominate the world economy and even world politics analyzed both human nature and the nature of society. Of course, there was the possibility that someone would oppose the capitalist order that they established for their own benefit. They anticipated this because they were aware that the capitalist system of exploitation they had established was inhumane and not easily acceptable. However, they had tasted the cake and were not going to give up on it.
Then there was only one option left. That option, if there was to be a rebellion, if there was to be a revolt one day in the future, had to be under their control. That's why they studied their lessons well and built a system that was anti-capitalist. This system should also be a system that not everyone can accept. Humans naturally need to believe. Belief in God is something that gives peace of mind. People do not give up on their beliefs easily. However, man has the urge to "have". They came up with a system that didn't include these two. The name of this system was communism. A system in which everyone is given everything equally. No ownership, no religion. Of course, there is a lot more, but I have summarized it briefly like this. I mean, they said, "If you don't settle for capitalism, you're going to have to give up your religion and your land." That's why the world has already split itself in two.
The reason I think these two systems are brothers is because they were born from the same source.
**Communism is not a system that emerged to balance capitalism, but a system that was designed to control the reaction of communities that may oppose capitalism.**
Since it could not reach the whole world, it almost disappeared with the collapse of the Soviet Union (**The founder of the Soviets, Lenin, was still in England when the revolution began in Russia. As soon as the revolution began, he was put on the train with special permission by capitalist England himself to lead**). When we look at the latest situation today, it is impossible to talk about the existence of a real communism. Maybe 20 years ago, Cuba was ruled by communism, but it was alone. Do you believe people in North Korea are happy? Communism was not created to make people happy anyway.
What about China? China is probably the most capitalist country in the world. Capital socialist country China. **(Speaking of China, let me add: The deputy of China's communist leader Mao was the man of the families I mentioned. You can find this information by searching.)**
Now, a new concept is mentioned. This concept is Global socialism. They will talk about it as if it is a very good system in the near future. We will hear this concept a lot, especially in social media. They will talk about the socialist heroes of the past and try to paint our eyes. Because the current capitalist system based on the interest economy has come to an end. Too weak to exist anymore. Now they will deceive the world community with global socialism. Their aim is to destroy the concept of "state". They will say absolute freedom, but then chaos, then the new order of slavery under the control of artificial intelligence. A new slavery system with the metaverse that they will embellish and put in front of us. But this time it's total slavery. Soon they will want to enforce the vaccination passport, using the epidemic as an excuse. But this vaccination passport will not be a paper notebook like you think. This passport will be a digital passport. They will want to place this under your skin. Then they're going to want to reveal another chip and put it on your head. They are building a digital slavery system under the name of the digital world society while we sleep in our bed.
I will not prolong the matter any further. In a word, I would like to say this. **The greatest danger for the people of the world in the near future will be global socialism and the metaverse.** This includes cryptocurrencies because the road to the metaverse was paved with cryptocurrencies. Use it consciously.
Don't get too carried away and keep your eyes open.
Capitalism and Communism are Brothers #1
A politician whom I loved very much would claim that capitalism and communism are brothers. Now I understand better why he said that.
This man is no longer alive. He died almost 10 years ago. To me, he was the world's greatest revolutionary. If I say revolution, I am not talking about the socialist revolution. You will understand better why I said that to him, when you read what I wrote.
As I followed the agenda, tried to understand the world and thought long and hard about what I was researching, I understood why capitalism and communism were brothers.
First, let's go back a bit and take a look at how these two concepts came to be.
Capitalism can be said to be as old as human history. However, I think the first steps were taken towards the end of the 1500s for it to turn into a systematic economic exploitation.
**What happened at that time?**
After the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, the British captain Drake sailed east and carried eastern goods such as silk and spices to the west, revealing trade opportunities.
Seeing the existing commercial potential, wealthy families founded the British East India Company and the suffering of the people of the world, which has continued until today, began. Of course, at that time, people were not yet aware of what dimensions capitalism could reach.
The Cape of Good Hope has always been known, but the sea currents there were very rough and strong enough ships had not been built yet. Thanks to the durable and large ships built later, harsh sea conditions were coped with and ocean travel became possible.
Well, I would like to point out for those who are wondering why they haven't done this by land before, first of all, land transportation takes a very long time. In addition, you will have to pay taxes as you will have to pass through territory controlled by other states, and your business profits will drop considerably. The sea route is both shorter and you don't have to pay taxes to other countries.
In short, this is how the capitalist system was born. With the establishment of the British East India Company. In fact, this topic is covered in an episode of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series. In other words, it somehow emphasizes that the authority of this company is above the governments. Today, the situation is not much different. Governments are under pressure from giant corporations, and even some heads of government and politicians can be said to be in control of these corporations.
At that time, this company had made a great fortune by exporting opium to China and India. Just to protect the interests of this company, that is, to continue the opium trade, a war broke out between England and China, known as the "Opium War" in history, and England won this war thanks to its advanced warships. This victory made it easier for the company to sell opium to China. In fact, the 50-year transfer of Hong Kong rule to Britain is part of the war reparations paid by China. Even though England won this war, the real winners were the company owners. The owners of the company, which made big money from drug sales, laid the foundations of today's capitalist order. Even today, there are those who claim that the world's giants are operating in the drug trade.
The annual revenue from the opium market is claimed to be 10 times the annual revenue of the world's largest companies.
**Do you think big companies that want to dominate the world economy leave such big money to ordinary gang or cartel members?**
One of the investigative journalists I follow claimed in an article that the drug trade in the world was carried out by private planes. In addition, a large amount of cocaine was seized on the cargo ship of a company affiliated to JP Morgan, one of the world's largest investment banks. You can find this out by doing a Google search. Think about it, they don't even allow JP Morgan to do drugs. It's not governments that don't allow it. other large companies.
The reason I mention this issue is to reveal that those who imposed capitalism on us built their empires in such dirty ways.
The subject is too long. I'm taking a break here now. I will tell you why I think capitalism and communism are brothers. But first I need to explain why. The subject is really long and I will touch on many things from Plato to the metaverse in the continuation of the subject. They're all interconnected.
If you have patiently read to the end, wait for the sequel. My aim is to raise awareness of people on certain issues from a different perspective.
**Stay with love and keep your eyes peeled…**
Know Yourself
They used to teach us this song at school when we were kids. It came to my mind because it was a story about cutting down trees.
There were two men who made a living by cutting trees in the forest. The first of these men would get up early in the morning and go to work. This man worked all day because he wanted to cut down a lot of trees. After he cut down one tree, he started cutting the second tree without a break, and he always worked like this without even having lunch. He even worked so hard that he even worked an extra hour after his friends took a break for the evening. Unlike the man who cuts a tree without rest from morning to night, after the other man cuts down one tree, he rests for a while and starts cutting the other tree. This second man does not neglect his lunch and even drinks coffee with him. The second man always took a break when he was tired.
After a while, a rivalry begins between these two men about cutting trees and they decide to count the trees they cut. So they could see who was more successful.
After working all day, these two men did a count to see who cut down more trees. The count result was surprising because it turned out that the second man cut down more trees than the first man.
The first man was both very surprised and very angry at this situation. He couldn't understand why the second man was more successful, despite working nonstop.
The second man gave an explanation for the situation. The second man said that he did not neglect to sharpen his ax when he took a break, and that with a sharp ax he could cut the trees more quickly.
Yes, actually this is a very interesting story. Many people reading the story may have thought that the first man would win the race. But the second man won the tree-cutting contest because he used his wits more.
**Isn't it like that in real life too?**
If people are like a sharpened ax, they can be more successful. People who develop themselves to do a job are always more successful. While we are in the hustle and bustle of life, we should stop and rest from time to time and observe ourselves. While investigating the causes of the problems we encounter in business or social life, we should be able to analyze ourselves objectively.
We can be more successful in this life if we make an effort to improve ourselves even when there are no problems. Of course, in order to improve ourselves, we must first know ourselves. A person who knows himself means a person who is open to both change and development. This is actually an important step to strengthen our character.
The famous Greek philosopher Socrates' words on this subject are included in the Delhi temple of India. Socrates said "**Know yourself**".
Self-knowledge is like paving stones for the roads that one will walk to reach the point they want to reach from where they are. If we can get to know ourselves, we can better understand how other people see us.
That's why, while life is flowing, we should sharpen our ax by taking small breaks in between. In this way, we can be much happier, we can enjoy life much more.
I hope you enjoyed the topic I chose for you.
I'm curious about your thoughts on this subject. Please specify in the comments.
A Meal That Makes Your Sunday Beautiful
Today is Sunday. It's actually one of my favorite days. When I was a kid, I used to have very nice Sunday breakfasts with my family. We lived in a city where the winters were very cold and it snowed often. Our house had a stove. On Sundays, we used to fry bread on that stove and eat it with butter. Next to the buttered toast would be boiled eggs and cheese. We usually drank tea as a beverage.
I prepared a similar breakfast today. We had a very nice Sunday breakfast with my sister and her children. We don't light the stove yet because the weather isn't cold enough. That's why I toasted the bread in the pan. My sister has 3 children. 1 girl is 13 years old and 1 girl and boy are 11 years old. 11 year olds are twins. However, since they are not identical twins, their genders are different and they do not look alike at all. All my nephews love my breakfast and other meals I prepare. From time to time I make various desserts for them.
We pay attention to what we eat on Sundays. Not only breakfast, but also afternoon snacks are important to us.
I want to share with you the snack he prepared for lunch this Sunday. We call this food "kısır". It can be thought of as a kind of cold starter dish. It is a dish I make often because it is very easy to make and very tasty. My nieces really love this dish.
We are a family of 5 people in total, but because the children love this dish, I prepared it according to the recipe for 6 people.
First, I washed and dried the spring onions, parsley and fresh mint. This point is very important because if I didn't dry the vegetables, the "kısır" would be too wet.
I chop the dried vegetables finely and transfer them to a bowl.
Then I poured 2 cups of fine bulgur into a deep bowl and poured 1.5 cups of hot water on it, then covered the bowl with cling film and waited for the fine bulgur to absorb the hot water.
After soaking the fine bulgur in hot water, I mixed it with the help of a spoon so that the fine bulgur becomes granular.
I added 2 tablespoons of tomato paste and 1 tea glass of olive oil to the swollen bulgur. I mixed it up a bit to mix the ingredients together.
After adding 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of ground red pepper and half a teaspoon of pomegranate syrup to the mixture I obtained, I squeezed two lemons.
Finally, I added the vegetables that I had finely chopped before. After stirring for a while to mix the ingredients well, the "kısır" was ready to serve. While doing all this, my twin nephews helped me. In fact, they were trying to speed things up because they wanted to eat the food as soon as possible.
Like lentil patties, "kısır" can be delicious when consumed with lettuce and lemon.
We also had a nice family dinner with lots of lettuce and lemon.
I hope you like my recipe and you will try it too. have fun in advance. Stay with love…
Semolina Halva of the Palace
Hello everyone, how are you today? I hope you had a good day. I am here with an article that will make your day even more beautiful, or rather sweeten it.
Yes, today I would like to give you the recipe of Semolina dessert, which is one of the indispensable desserts of Turkish cuisine. Besides being a very delicious dessert, this is a very easy dessert to make. I would also like to point out that this dessert is also a **traditional dessert made in the** **Ottoman palace cuisine** in the past.
Before proceeding with the preparation of the dessert, let's organize the list of necessary ingredients.
3 tablespoons of butter
1.5 large glasses of milk
1.5 large glasses of semolina
½ cup of pine nuts
1.5 large glasses of water
1.5 large glasses of granulated sugar
2 teaspoons of cinnamon
Before we move on to making the dessert, we first need to prepare the sauce. We put milk, water and sugar in a saucepan and mix until it boils on the stove. This mixture will continue to boil over low heat. No need to mix anymore.
Now, after melting 3 tablespoons of butter in a slightly deep pan, we roast the pine nuts thoroughly. We need to roast the pine nuts until they turn brown, but be careful not to burn them. Keep an eye on them when roasting pine nuts, because there is a possibility that they will suddenly burn.
After our pine nuts are browned, we add 1.5 large glasses of semolina to the pan and fry for 20 minutes. **There are 2 points that we should pay attention** to while roasting the semolina. The first point is that we will do this process on low heat. The second point is that we need to stir constantly. Just like pine nuts, semolina should not burn. Therefore, we fry it on low heat and stir constantly. Don't forget this.
After roasting our semolina well, we slowly pour the sauce we prepared before over the semolina and pine nut mixture in the pan. As soon as we pour the sauce, the semolina in the pan will start to bubble, **do not be afraid**. Now, we've brought together almost all the elements of dessert. We need to cook the mixture in the pan for another 10 minutes on low heat. Of course, we still have to stir constantly. If we don't mix it, it may burn and stick to the bottom of the pan.
After the last cooking process for 10 minutes, we can turn off the bottom of the stove. Now we will close a lid on the rim of the pan and let the semolina halva brew for a while. The semolina halva, which is **brewed for 10-15 minutes**, is ready to be served. This dessert is not too cold or too hot, it is actually a dessert that is eaten lukewarm.
After putting the semolina halva in the pan in a bowl, we should turn it upside down on the serving plate so that it comes out in the form of a mold. Serving it this way makes it look more pleasant. You can pour some cinnamon on the semolina halva that comes out as a mold on the plate. As I mentioned earlier, cinnamon will not only give you a pleasant aroma but also prevent your blood sugar from rising quickly.
Semolina halva is a dessert that is optionally consumed with ice cream. I love semolina halva with warm and ice cream. In fact, my favorite dessert is semolina halva. don't tell anyone. Let this be a secret between us
Finally, semolina halva is a type of dessert served at Turkish wedding meals. I had the opportunity to eat this dessert at wedding dinners many times.
I hope you try to make semolina halvah and you like the taste. **Stay with love…**
A Fabulous Snack Plate #Menemen
For the last two days, I've been telling you about the food and desserts of my own culture. Of course, there will be people among you who know dishes similar to the ones I've described. After all, we live in the same world and the products we grow are very similar to each other. However, there may be variation between our cooking methods and the amount of ingredients used.
I am a Turk and I am trying to give you examples of Turkish cuisine culture. Turkish cuisine is a cuisine that has a place among other food cultures in the world. I can say that our desserts are especially popular. Besides our other fine dishes, Turkish breakfasts are also quite famous.
Today, I would like to give you a recipe that is one of the popular dishes of Turkish breakfast and is also very simple to prepare.
**The name of our dish is “Menemen”**
This dish takes its name from Menemen, the town of Izmir, which is located on the Aegean Sea coast of Turkey and is also the 3rd largest city in the country.
Although it takes its name from the west of Turkey, it is an aperitif that is frequently cooked in almost every part of the country. Although it is eaten especially at breakfast, it can be eaten at any meal of the day.
Let's start with the ingredients list, as we always do.
**A list of materials**
5 medium size tomatoes
1 medium onion
5 green peppers (can be hot according to preference)
3 eggs
Black pepper
salt
**How is Menemen Prepared?**
First, we chop the onion and green pepper into cubes and fry them well in a pan in which we put a few tablespoons of oil. Then we add the tomatoes, which we peel and cut into cubes, to the onion and pepper mixture in the pan. After cooking for a while, mash the half-cooked tomatoes thoroughly with a fork. When we put the tomatoes in the pan for the first time, they will release their own juice. We will continue to cook until this water evaporates.
After the juice of the tomatoes evaporates, we add the eggs we mixed in another bowl to the mixture in the pan and cook. I usually add pepper and salt after I add the eggs.
Under normal conditions, Menemen is ready to eat after the eggs are cooked. The recipe I gave you was a classic Menemen recipe. Some different ingredients can also be used as it is easy to prepare. For example, there are those who argue that Menemen should be without onions. Actually, I prefer without onions, but sometimes I also eat onions. Both are very beautiful.
However, you can add according to your taste to taste the food. When Menemen is mentioned in Turkey, it is seen that many different materials are put into it. Menemen is a snack that allows for many different additions.
For example, after adding the eggs in the last step, you can add some grated cheddar cheese on it to make it melt.
As for my preference, I prefer the ones with plenty of pepper, no onions and cheddar. Along with Menemen, black grapes are also a very good accompaniment.
In another different cooking method, roasted meat can be added to Menemen. Menemen with roasted meat and cheddar is a very popular type of Menemen in our country. You can find it especially in restaurants that serve breakfast.
**I hope you liked my recipe. Bon a petite to you in advance. Stay with love.**
Here is a Delicious Dessert Recipe
Today I want to give you a delicious dessert recipe that does not require many ingredients and is very easy to prepare. If you like milky desserts, you should definitely try this dessert.
Our dessert is called "Sütlaç"
Before proceeding with the preparation of the dessert, I will give the list of ingredients.
**A list of materials**
3 tablespoons of rice (about 40 g)
2 tablespoons of wheat starch or 3 tablespoons of rice flour
1 large glass of sugar (200 g)
1 liter milk
A little cinnamon powder
**Now let's move on to how to prepare rice pudding dessert**
First, we boil 2 large glasses of water in a saucepan. Then, we throw the rice, which we washed with water a few times, into the hot water in the pot and boil it on low heat. We need to soak the rice in water and boil it until it turns into a puree. While doing this, we have to mix it gently several times.
When the rice comes to the consistency of porridge, we add 1 liter of milk and continue to cook on high heat. After the milk we added to the pot boils, we continue cooking for 10 minutes on low heat. Don't forget to mix it lightly from time to time.
After boiling for 10 minutes on low heat, add 1 large glass of granulated sugar and cook the mixture until it boils. After boiling, we continue the cooking process by slowly mixing the mixture on low heat for 5 more minutes.
The process we will do now is an important process in terms of the taste of the dessert. We must do this carefully. Pour 2 tablespoons of starch into a bowl and add a small glass of water to it and mix well. We need to slowly pour the liquid starch we have obtained into the mixture that is boiling in the pot. While doing this, we must continue to stir the mixture in the pot. The starch we pour into the pot should not clump together under the influence of heat.
Yes, we have added all the ingredients. Now we will continue to cook on low heat for a while in order for our dessert to reach the desired consistency.
**So how do we know that our dessert has reached the desired consistency?**
Very simple. Small air bubbles will begin to form on the mixture that boils over low heat. After seeing these little air bubbles, all we have to do is continue cooking for another 2 minutes. Then our dessert will be cooked. We can turn off the stove. The consistency of our mixture should be a little runny.
Now that we've cooked our dessert, there's still some small work to be done before serving. We have to pour the mixture in the pot into small bowls. While putting the mixture into the bowls with the help of a ladle, you should make sure that you put an equal amount of rice in each bowl. Since the rice in the pot will collapse to the bottom, it will be appropriate to mix it every time and put it. Desserts waiting at room temperature should be kept in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours after they have cooled sufficiently. Rice pudding is a dessert that is eaten cold.
If you pour cinnamon on the desserts you took out of the refrigerator before eating, they will be more delicious and you will prevent your blood sugar from suddenly rising.
**I hope you liked my recipe. Bon apetite to you all. Stay with love…**
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Snack Plate Lentil Meatballs
Today I want to give you a recipe that is very easy to prepare and will not disturb your stomach at the same time. This is actually a snack plate. Here, we prepare this meal not to fill our stomachs, but to serve it with tea or coffee at friends' meetings.
Our dish is called Lentil Meatballs.
Before I start explaining how to prepare lentil meatballs, I would like to give a list of the necessary ingredients.
**A list of materials:**
2 large cups of red lentils
5 large glasses of water
1 posy parsley
5 fresh green onions
1.5 large glasses of fine bulgur
**Ingredients Required for the Sauce:**
2 small onions
5 tablespoons of oil
1 tablespoon of tomato paste
1 tablespoon of chili paste
1 large glass of water
Salt
Cumin
Black pepper
chili pepper
1 lemon
**Now let's move on to the preparation of lentil meatballs**
The first thing we need to do is to boil 5 glasses of water in a saucepan. After the water boils, we boil the red lentils in water. While the lentils are boiled, the water in the pot will gradually evaporate. When 2/3 of the water evaporates, we take the pot from the stove. We add the fine bulgur in our hand to the pot containing the lentils and some water and close the lid of the pot. The lentils and fine bulgur in the pot will stand for 15 minutes and they will absorb the remaining water.
Next, we finely chop the green onions and parsley in the same way as we do when making salads. We will use the chopped vegetables for the meatballs.
Now, we chop the onions that we reserved for the sauce of the meatballs into small cubes. Next, we put 5 tablespoons of oil in a frying pan and heat it a little, then fry the onions, which we cut into cubes, in oil until they turn pink. When the onions are browned, we add tomato and pepper paste and other spices on the list little by little and cook them all together for a short time. Don't forget to add salt and lemon juice. While cooking this mixture, we need to put a glass of water in it.
Now, we mix this sauce we have prepared with the green onions and parsley that we chopped before, together with the lentils and fine bulgur in the pot.
Here we are at a point where we have to work with our hands. What we need to do is to mix all the ingredients by crushing them with the palms of both hands. All the ingredients in the pot need to be combined with each other. This process may take up to 10 minutes. You don't have to do this mixing in the pot. You can do it in a wider container.
Once the materials are fused, there is one last thing we need to do. That process is to take some of the mixture into our palms, squeeze and shape. You can arrange the shaped meatballs on a large plate and garnish with lemon and parsley. It might look better if you put lettuce under the plate.
Also, lentil meatballs usually taste better when eaten with lettuce and lemon.
**Bravo, the lentil patties are ready. Bon Appetit. Stay with love…**
That's what it's called skimming the cake # MyBiggestAchimentsInLife
I've never been one to worry too much about being successful. So I had to think a little bit about whether there was a success story in my life. I think there may be several.
After reading the article shared by my friend who invited me to Read.cash, I decided to write this article. On this occasion, I will be participating in another article competition. My goal is to be a part of this event. You decide what kind of success story my story is.
I say at every opportunity, I am an actor. I think it would be more accurate to say that I am a theater actor. I mostly acted in plays. Once, I had a small role in a TV series broadcast on a national television channel.
In 2010, together with my school friend, we established a theater in the city of Antalya. We spent our first year mostly making children's games. In order to grow our theater, we needed to expand our circle. Many times, we met with fellow actors in both state and municipal theaters and talked about what we could do together. We also contacted some amateur theater groups.
State theaters and municipal theaters dominated the sector in Antalya at that time. Privately-run theaters like ours were trying to stay afloat by touring. We wanted to change that. The people of Antalya are a community that is interested in both theater and other branches of art. Still, it is not easy for a theater to survive without government support.
In our first year, we made some money by staging plays for children. We wanted to make our name known and reach more audience by staging plays for adults with the money we earned. We agreed with our fellow players and decided to stage a play for the new season.
Our resources were very limited. Despite this, we rehearsed throughout the summer by using the hall of the art school of our friends from our close circle. On the one hand, we continued to work on the decor and costume, while trying to arrange the theater where we will stage the play. Normally, a certain amount of money is paid to the actors at rehearsal time. You can think of it as half a salary. However, we did not have the means to do this and our fellow players showed understanding to us. During rehearsal times, we cooked and brought the actors' meals at home. It was to our advantage that there were not many players. There were 4 other people besides us.
The play we decided to stage was British playwright Peter Shaffer's play "Black Comedy". Yes, there are six characters in this game. I played the electrician in the game.
**Theme of Black Comedy: from Wikipedia**
Theme of Black Comedy
Set in the turbulent days of 1960s London, it is a sophisticated, very humorous, tumultuous farce based on a very simple idea.
Comedy in the Dark is one of the most modern comedies, which takes place between characters groping in the dark with the lights out, but was written with the idea of presenting this blind fight to the audience under the light.
Sculptor Brindsley is engaged to Carol and wants to impress Carol's old-fashioned colonel father. But the night that both Carol's father and a millionaire arrive to buy the statues, insurance blows. Brindsley's ex-girlfriend, Clea, arrives and hides herself in the blind apartment. Carol can't keep her fiancee Brindsley's hand apart in the dark. However, Brindsley's gay neighbor, an antiques dealer, and Clea recognize Brindsley's hand. Love may be blind, but it is undeniable that it has feelings. Moreover, it is very difficult to hide these feelings and act otherwise.
Comedy in the Dark is a play that does not reflect its commitment to the social life it emerged from, as well as being one of the most entertaining comedies.
We rehearsed all summer. I went to all the rehearsals. It took about an hour and a half to walk between my house and the hall where we rehearsed. Antalya is a city located on the south coast of Turkey. Summers are very hot and humid. In that sweltering weather, I walked that road 5 days a week for almost 2 months. It wasn't just my face that was sweating :)
We also handled the decor and costumes of the game with our own efforts. A truly talented artist, the light maker of a theater in Antalya decorated the lights of the play for us. We obtained the costumes from our friends and family. We only bought a few costumes with the money. The decor that challenged us the most was the rocking chair. This chair had an important role in the game. So we couldn't use an ordinary chair. Since the play was set in England in the 60s, it was already very difficult to find props and costumes.
We needed a rocking chair with classic lines, and these things are only available at some antique shops. After a long search, we found the rocking chair we wanted in an antique shop. The seller asked for a very high price. We had to buy it because there was very little time left for the premiere of the game. There was no time to do further research. I remember that day we gave all the money we had left in our pocket to that chair. And do you know that the chair was broken in one of the sessions :( The item had a delicate structure. Of course we didn't buy a new one. We repaired and continued to use.
Let's get to the success part of this story. We played this drama every week throughout the season. Sometimes 30 people, sometimes 300 people watched the series. But without hesitation, we continued to open the curtains. Let alone making money, playing in an almost empty hall for 30 people is not enjoyable at all. Theater is beautiful with the audience. The audience is part of the game.
It is a success for me to have staged a theater play that we created by struggling with so many difficulties, that play every week for a season. There is one more chapter of success here though.
There is a national theater jury in our country. This jury consists of theater volunteers. They travel all over the country, watch the plays of the theaters that open regularly, determine the best categories and organize award ceremonies. All you have to do is reach out to this jury and tell them when and where you'll be playing throughout the year. Then he mingles with people and comes on an unfamiliar day, watches and evaluates the game. The prizes they give have no monetary value. However, the awards given by the national jury bring great prestige to the theaters.
We informed this jury as we regularly open the curtains throughout the year. Of course, one day we didn't know, they came and watched our game. At the end of the season, this jury announced the winners. Our play was chosen as the best comedy play in Antalya. Despite all the difficulties and financial difficulties we experienced, we gained a great prestige by receiving an award and succeeded in making our name known to the whole city. Moreover, our rivals were state-sponsored theaters. That's what it's called skimming the cake. It's party time, of course. We had a great happiness together. Yuppii... I still have some enthusiasm for that award :)
2011, Antalya city, Best comedy play, Black Comedy, Red Pen Theatre.
Stay with love…
Top Notable SmartBCH Tokens of the Week
We continue to monitor the development of **SmartBCH**-based tokens. Among these tokens, there are those who experience decreases from time to time, and of course, there are tokens that make their investors smile with their rises.
Let's take a look at the data of the most profitable tokens this week among SmartBCH tokens. I will rank the list I created from the most bullish token this week to the least bullish token.
At the top of our list is **MGOT (MGOT)**, which has increased by **799%** in the last 1 week. MGOT, which has a market value of 59 thousand dollars, has a maximum supply of 100 million. The current price of MGOT is located at **$0.0005895774**. MGOT has increased 110% in the last 24 hours.
2nd on the list is **Honk (HONK)**. HONK has gained a nice **346%** in the last 7 days. With a market cap of around $223 million, HONK has a maximum supply of 100 billion. The current price of HONK, which has lost 0.7% in the last 24 hours, is **$0.0000022506**.
3rd place on our list is **CashCats (CATS)**. CATS has experienced a **125%** increase in the last 1 week. With a maximum supply of 1 billion, CATS has a market value of 2.8 million. CATS, a SmartBCH-based NFT platform, has dropped 3.5% in the last 24 hours. The current price of CATS is **$0.0028**.
#4 on our list is **Shiba BCH (SHIBBCH)**. Closing this week with a gain of **116%**, SHIBBCH has a maximum supply of 1 quadrillion. SHIBBCH, which has a market value of $ 167 thousand, has seen a 20% increase in the last 24 hours. Its current price is **0.000000000166** dollars.
**Green Been (EBEN)** is at the 5th place of our list. EBEN has increased its price by **40%** in the last week. With a total supply of 11.5 million, EBEN has a market value of around 7 million. With its current price of **$0.57**, EBEN has fallen by 2.5% in the last 24 hours.
6th place on our list is **Vandals (VANDALS)**. VANDALS has made an upward movement of **29%** in the last 1 week. With a total supply of 100 million, VANDALS has a market value of 57 thousand dollars. VANDALS, which is currently priced at **$0.00072**, has seen a 6.8% increase in the last 24 hours.
7th on our list is **LAW (LAW)**. LAW has gained **22%** in the last 7 days. With a total supply of 21 million, LAW has a market cap of 4.3 million. LAW, whose current price is at **$ 0.20**, managed to increase by 4.2% in the last 24 hours.
**Xolos (RMZ)** ranks 8th on our list. The total supply of RMZ, which has increased its price by 12% in the last week, is 10 thousand units. The current price of RMZ, which has a market value of $ 34 thousand, is **$ 3498**. RMZ has increased by 12% in the last 24 hours.
9th on our list is **AxieBCH (AXIEBCH)**. AXIEBCH managed to gain **8.9%** in the last 7 days. With a total supply of 100 million, AXIEBCH has a market value of around $527 thousand. The current price of AXIEBCH, which has decreased by 4.4% in the last 24 hours, is around **$ 0.0052**.
Last on our list is **Potato Coin (POTA)**. POTA has seen an increase of **3.3%** in the last 1 week. With a total supply of 1 billion, POTA has a market value of 53 thousand dollars. The current price of POTA, which has decreased by 1% in the last 24 hours, is around **$0.000053**.
The data of the tokens in the list are the current values at the time of writing. There may have been minor changes in the data over the short period of time.
It is not investment advice.
Rainbow Lover
If you feel a deep emptiness in your heart, it means you still haven't found your soul mate. There is a way to find the person you are looking for. This person who will complete you is perhaps an endangered book reader. That's why you should look more carefully at people holding books while spending time in a cafe or in the park. Or you can go to a library as soon as possible.
Let's talk about the potential of people who read books to be good lovers.
**They Don't Just Talk to You, They Really Chat**
These people leave you cute little notes. Since their vocabulary is very wide, they give creative and entertaining answers to your questions instead of giving short and boring answers. A study by Anne E. Cunningham, an academic at the University of California, revealed that the vocabulary of a person who reads a book is much greater than someone who is content with only lessons in school. The language skills of such people are quite high.
**They Not Only Know You, They Also Understand You**
Imagine a lover who sees your soul and can find a perfect harmony with you. How beautiful would it be, wouldn't it?. It is very important to have a lover who not only knows you, but can also understand you.
According to psychologist David Comer Kidd, clever writers can turn their readers into writers, too. Readers who see the flaws of the characters in fiction books can also develop the ability to understand other people's minds in real life. This allows them to accept other people with their flaws. After all, nobody is perfect. So, if you choose a lover who reads, he can tolerate your flaws. Someone who can empathize with any character in a fictional book can easily empathize with their environment in the real world. This means that even if your partner disagrees with you, they can see things from your perspective.
**They're Not Just Intelligent, They're Wise Too**
Many of us have witnessed some of the gifted people we meet around us acting arrogantly. Giftedness may not always bring wisdom and maturity. However, a gifted person who develops himself by reading books often turns into a mature and wise person.
Even when you're chatting, it's normal to be very impressed with someone you've learned something from. Consider that this person who impresses you with his knowledge is also witty while chatting. Your interest in that person will increase even more. Think about how much fun a person who plays word games and gives you nice compliments will add to the relationship. If you find a lover who reads books, you can be sure that you will have plenty of such fun and satisfying conversations.
According to Cunningham, people who read books have a very large memory and these people are much more intelligent than others. A person who reads a book has much more advanced mental functions than a normal person, and this allows him to have a high level of communication skills.
Being in a relationship with someone who reads a book can mean that you are in love with thousands of different souls. Do not treat this as a schizophrenic condition. This means you won't have time to get bored and you can see hundreds or even thousands of beautiful colors in one person. That's a rainbow lover.
**I would appreciate if you share your thoughts and experiences on the subject as a comment.**
Thank you for reading. **Stay with love…**
Mysterious Effect in the Book
Have you ever read a book to the end, even once in your life? What I'm trying to say is, did you read all the sentences in the book from beginning to end?
Well, after reading the last sentence of the book and closing the book, did you take a deep breath and think about how much the book affected you?
Perhaps you were immersed in new thoughts by being grateful for that book. Maybe you felt a difference in yourself. If you read a book by paying attention to the smallest detail and internalizing it, you will enter the world of that book and when you finish the book, you will feel like you have won the book, but you will also be sad that the book is over. Because reading that book means the end of an impressive adventure for you. This creates a deep sadness inside you, like the end of a passionate summer love that you will never meet again. You experience both the happiness of passionate love and the pain of separation.
Annie Murphy Paul, one of the authors of Time magazine, defines reading done in this way as “deep reading”. According to Paul, many people no longer do deep reading. People often skim the book and give it a superficial read. So for Paul, deep reading is like an endangered species.
The number of real readers as well as the number of letter writers is decreasing day by day. People who read books are generally kinder and smarter than people who don't. This makes them cuter. The decrease in the number of people reading books in the world means that the number of civilized, sensitive and understanding people who truly deserve to be loved is decreasing day by day.
Between 2006-2009, two academicians conducted a research on reading books. One of these academics is Keith Oatley, professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Toronto. The other is Raymand Mar, a faculty member in the psychology department at York University. According to the results of this research, people who read fiction are more adept at developing theory of mind and empathizing with other people.
This type of reader cares about other people's opinions. Continuing to defend their own ideas, these people do not completely reject other ideas. He can compare his own thoughts with those of others. In fact, what's normal is that most people can do it. However, some social skills need to be developed in order to have a strong empathy ability. Fiction books seem to be good helpers in this regard.
Did You see has your ex reading a book? If your answer is no, perhaps you should reconsider choosing a lover. What you say? :)
It is not surprising that people who read books are superior to people who do not read in many subjects. The reason for this is that the lives they get the chance to observe in the books become a kind of experience for them. Although they did not directly experience it, they are somehow witnessing the experience. This allows them to better understand the situation they are in.
Thanks to the tens or even hundreds of books they read, these people got to know different characters and tried to understand them. Perhaps they witnessed events that you would never have experienced. In these books, they shared the suffering of people you will never know. They learned to see things from both male and female perspectives. In short, they experienced many different lives, albeit abstractly. Therefore, these people can understand life more deeply and evaluate it better than people who do not read books.
In 2010, academic Raymond Mar conducted a similar study on children who read books. The results were similar to the previous study. It turned out that children who read books have much more developed social skills than children who do not read.
As a result, reading plays an important role in shaping a person's personality and developing his character by gaining new features.
Thank you for reading. **Stay with love**…
@ErdoV
