Gila Benmayor

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  TÜSİAD acts faster than Sarkozy

  15 février 2011

  Turkish Industry and Business Association, or TÜSİAD, representatives are in France to lobby for business interests just two weeks ahead of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Turkey visit.
  This time the meetings are not in Paris but in another important city, Lyon.
  The TÜSİAD team includes members of the Boğaziçi Institute, founded one-and-a-half years ago in Paris.
  I think I should better give a reminder about the Boğaziçi Institute.
  TÜSİAD decided to set up a platform to include the French (...)

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  The Eiffel Tower wears red and white but Sarkozy…

  25 October 2009

  GİLA BENMAYOR
  One of the most impressive activities of “Turkey Season” in France is the illumination of the Eiffel Tower, Paris’ symbol, with the colors of the Turkish flag, red and white.
  I watched the tower in red and white the whole night in a restaurant at the top of the Musee de l’Homme” in Trocadero Square.
  This lightening will last only five days but it has already sparked discussions in France.
  A few months ago, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe in a surprise announcement at Galatasaray (...)

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  The difference between Tansuğ and Guggenheim

  27 July 2007

  Sabiha Tansuğ is one of the most important ethnologists and researchers raised in Turkey. Author of “Sümbülname and Love of Flower Among Turks” and of “Türkmen Clothing”, which was translated into English, Ms. Tansuğ writes articles for Turkish Air Lines’ “Skylife” magazine. Her articles are about folkloric clothing, accessories and about their place in daily lives of the past.
  She owes her accumulation to her years of experience in the villages of Anatolia. Think of a young woman who hit the (...)

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  Sarkozy will soon see that Turks are not ’from Cappadocia’

  23 May 2007

  Source : TDN, May 19, 2007
  On the day that the new French President Nicolas Sarkozy moved into the Élysée Palace, I was watching a dance performance “Il Ballo Di Corte” by the French choreographer Christine Grimaldi at the Saint Irene (Aya İrini).
  In the company of Middle Age music from the 16th and 17th centuries, the performance reflected a section of palace entertainments. It was in harmony with the Saint Irene’s grandiose and solemn atmosphere. Costumes of the dancers were inspired by (...)