Let's İntorduce You to Türkiye 'Turkey' Shall we ? :)

Türkiye 'Turkey' for those who doesn't know,is very much close to us Egyptian,in almost everything
Traditions,manners,ethics...etc
İn short,you wont be feeling a stranger when you are there :)
So,let's take a look and know more ?

Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace (Rumelia) in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhichevan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea and Archipelago are to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. Separating Anatolia and Thrace are the Sea of Marmara and the Turkish Straits (the Bosporus and the Dardanelles), which are commonly reckoned to delineate the border between Asia and Europe, thereby making Turkey transcontinental. Due to its strategic location astride two continents, Turkey's culture has a unique blend of Eastern and Western tradition. A powerful regional presence in the Eurasian landmass with strong historic, cultural and economic influence in the area between Europe in the west and Central Asia in the east, Russia in the north and the Middle East in the south, Turkey has come to acquire increasing strategic significance. Turkey is a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic whose political system was established in 1923 under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, following the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I. Since then, Turkey has become increasingly integrated with the West through membership in organizations such as the Council of Europe, NATO, OECD, OSCE and the G-20 major economies. Turkey began full membership negotiations with the European Union in 2005, having been an associate member of the EEC since 1963, and having reached a customs union agreement in 1995. Meanwhile, as a Muslim-majority countryTurkey has continued to foster close cultural, political, economic and industrial relations with the Eastern world, particularly with the states of the Middle East and Central Asia, through membership in organizations such as the OIC and ECO. Turkey is classified as a developed country by the CIA and as a regional power by political scientists and economists worldwide.

For further more reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey

Stop Violence Against Women !

We are a little bit of the topic of our blog,but still we actually in the topic,it's a topic not in Egypt,not in Türkiye,not in the middle east and surprisingly not only at the poor and developed countries only,but rich and modern ones !
So,let's say it loud and clear.
STOP!
Stop Violence Against Women!
Not man enough who abuse women...not man at ALL !

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN, SAYS BEHAVIOUR THAT EXCUSES SUCH VIOLENCE MUST BE COMBATED
UN

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, observed on 25 November:
Across the world, in countries rich and poor, women are being beaten, trafficked, raped and killed. These human rights violations do more than harm individuals; they undermine the development, peace and security of entire societies.
Women everywhere are at risk, but those living in societies experiencing armed conflict face even graver danger. As conflicts have become more complex, the pattern of sexual violence has evolved. Women are no longer in jeopardy only during periods of actual fighting; they are just as likely to be assaulted when there is calm, by armies, militias, rebels, criminal gangs or even police.
We do not know the true number of victims, but we do know that there are far more crimes than ever get reported, and far fewer lead to arrests. In too many places, rape still carries a stigma that forces women to avoid the courts that should exist to protect them. In some countries, victims are brutalized twice: first during the crime itself, and then by the justice system, where they may face trumped-up charges of “adultery” and the possibility of subsequent punishment.
Even when perpetrators are identified, they often go unpunished, especially if they are working in the police or military. At times, these crimes are particularly shocking. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s troubled North Kivu province, where some 350 rape cases are reported every month, victims are also sometimes subjected to genital mutilation.
Even more disturbing is the age of many victims. In certain violent areas of Haiti, 50 per cent of the young women have been raped or sexually assaulted. Of the handful of courageous victims who do seek justice, one in three is under 13. During one particularly violent month earlier this year in Liberia, the majority of reported rapes were committed against girls under the age of 12, some of whom were not even 5 years old.
These examples come from countries where the United Nations has a peacekeeping presence. Thanks to the Security Council’s groundbreaking resolution 1820 (2008), adopted in June, the use of sexual violence as a tactic of warfare is now recognized as a matter of international peace and security. According to the resolution, peacekeeping missions, in particular those with mandates to protect civilians, must now include the protection of women and children from all forms of violence in their reporting on conflict situations. Resolution 1820 (2008) also requested stronger efforts to implement the vital zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation by United Nations personnel, and urged troop- and police-contributing countries to ensure full accountability in cases of misconduct.
The adoption of resolution 1820 (2008) is part of a growing global trend to address this scourge. This past February’s Vienna Forum to Fight Human Trafficking, and the continued leadership of the General Assembly, are additional signs of international momentum.
At the national level, more and more countries are meeting their obligations to protect women through comprehensive legislation, better services for victims, stronger partnerships and increased efforts to engage men and boys in addressing the problem.
This progress is welcome, but there are still gaps. We need to do more to enforce laws and counter impunity. We need to combat attitudes and behaviour that condone, tolerate, excuse or ignore violence committed against women. And we need to increase funding for services for victims and survivors.
I am determined to strengthen these efforts, including through my global campaign “UNiTE to end violence against women”, which aims to raise public awareness, increase political will and resources and create a supportive environment to make good on existing policy commitments.
All of us -- men and women, soldiers and peacekeepers, citizens and leaders -- have a responsibility to help end violence against women. States must honour their commitments to prevent violence, bring perpetrators to justice and provide redress to victims. And each of us must speak out in our families, workplaces and communities, so that acts of violence against women cease.
Further links to the topic

UNİFEM
Each country has its own shap of the problem,and in my opinion each country is the best to analysis it and solve it
And i believe our problem here in Egypt can be formed in 2 words,education and upbringing.
more to follow.....

Türkiye -Turkey- my love :)

You can fall in love with her even without being there,and the more you read,the more you hear,the more you love her more and more,and you feel echo for that love in your heart,something telling you,it's not a new love,it was always there deep in your heart...it's your love for her....Türkiye 'Turkey' تركيا

Surprised are you ?

İf you are Egyptian you won't be,and also if you are a Turk and reading about Mısır 'Misir-Egypt',you won't be too.

İt's same for you like your mother and your maternal aunt 'teyze'

My country is my mother,and Türkiye is teyzem 'my maternal aunt in Turkish'

Can you understand how deep it is ?...well,if you are Egyptian,or Turk,you will feel it :)

So let's know more about it.... 'teyze'

Let's İnterduce you to Türkiye,shall we ? :)

Biladi Biladi Laky Hobby wa fouady...The Egyptian National Anthem

The National Anthem



BILADI
CHORUS

Biladi Biladi Biladi
Laki Hubbi Wa Fuadi
Biladi Biladi Biladi
Laki Hubbi Wa Fuadi


Misr Ya Umm Al Bilad
Inti Ghayati Wal Murad
Wa 'Ala Kull Il 'Ibad
Kam Lineelik Min Ayadi.

CHORUS

Misr Inti Aghla Durra
Fawq Gabeen Ad-dahr Ghurra
Ya Biladi 'Aishi Hurra
Wa As 'Adi Ragh-al-adi.

CHORUS

Misr Awladik Kiram
Aufiya Yar'u-ziman
Saufa Takhti Bil-maram
Bittihadhim Wa-ittihadi.

CHORUS


MY HOMELAND

CHORUS

My homeland, my homeland, my homeland,
My love and my heart are for thee.
My homeland, my homeland, my homeland,
My love and my heart are for thee.


Egypt! O mother of all lands,
My hope and my ambition,
How can one count
The blessings of the Nile for mankind?

CHORUS

Egypt! Most precious jewel,
Shining on the brow of eternity!
O my homeland, be for ever free,
Safe from every foe!

CHORUS

Egypt! Noble are thy children,
Loyal, and guardians of thy soil.
In war and peace
We give our lives for thy sake.

CHORUS

"Lost" Pyramid Found Buried in Egypt

Andrew Bossone in Cairo for National Geographic News June 5, 2008
The pyramid of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh has been rediscovered after being buried for generations, archaeologists announced today. (See photos and video.) The pyramid is thought to house the tomb of King Menkauhor, who is believed to have ruled in Egypt's 5th dynasty for eight years in the mid-2400s B.C. Long since reduced to its foundations, the structure was previously known as Number 29 or the "Headless Pyramid." It was mentioned in the mid-19th century by German archaeologist Karl Richard Lepsius. Then it disappeared in the sands of Saqqara, a sprawling royal burial complex near current-day Cairo. It took Egyptian archaeologists about a year and a half just to remove all the sand above the pyramid. "After Lepsius the location of the pyramid was lost and the substructure of [the] pyramid never known," said Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. "It was forgotten by people until we began to search this area and a hill of sand, maybe 25 feet [7.6 meters] high." Hawass is a National Geographic explorer-in-residence. (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.) Old Kingdom Clues Nothing on the pyramid specifically names its owner, and the majority of the structure has been destroyed, so Egyptian archaeologists had to put several clues together to identify it. Past archaeologists have disputed the date of the pyramid, usually putting it in either the Old Kingdom, between 2575 and 2150 B.C., or the Middle Kingdom, between 1975 and 1640 B.C. But the recent research determined that the pyramid lacked the winding mazes typical of a Middle Kingdom temple. Instead, the lack of artwork and inscriptions, as well as the structure's red granite blocks, were typical of Old Kingdom pyramids, according to Hawass. The burial chamber also contained the lid of a sarcophagus made of gray schist, a type of rock often used in the Old Kingdom. What's more, the newfound pyramid resembles the pyramid next to it, which belongs to the first pharaoh of the 6th dynasty, Teti, who ruled from 2345 to 2181 B.C. That suggested the lost pyramid could also come from the 5th dynasty. The neighboring pyramid also pointed to the owner of the pyramid as Menkauhor, since he was without a discovered burial tomb. "There were missing pyramids of the kings, and this is one of them," Hawass said. Sacred Road Archaeologists also announced the discovery of new parts of a sacred road, dating to the Ptolemaic period, some 2,000 years after the Old Kingdom. The discovery shows the sustained importance of Saqqara, which was located in the ancient capital of Memphis, the researchers added. Ola El Aguizy is a professor of ancient Egyptian languages at Cairo University. "During the whole history of Egypt, Memphis and Saqqara had remained very, very important," El Aguizy said. "I am discovering tombs of people of the 26th dynasty [in Saqqara] that were reusing tombs of the 19th dynasty. It is a sacred place, and so many important people wanted to be buried there." Another reason people wanted to be buried in Saqqara was the sacred road, which was used for the procession of mummified bulls of the god of the dead, Osiris. "[Osiris] was enthroned like a king and when he died they made funerals like those of a king," El Aguizy said. The bulls also had a historical significance: Their deaths were used to determine when a pharaoh reigned. "It's a way of dating the pharaohs," El Aguizy said. "Sometimes we know how many bulls died during the reign of a king, or vice versa." (See a photo of an underground tunnel for sacred bulls.) More Discoveries Expected The sacred path, first discovered by French archaeologist Auguste Mariette in 1850, is nicknamed the Way of the Sphinxes because of its long row of statues often found at the gates of Egyptian temples. (See a photo gallery of Egyptian landmarks.) "The modern name of ancient Memphis is Mit Rahina … which means the way of the Sphinx," El Aguizy said. "So [this path is] presumably the Way, with sphinxes [formerly] on the two sides." Archaeologists hope the path will lead to more discoveries in the area. Plans are underway to relocate modern-day workers who live in a village beside the Menkauhor site to allow an expanded search for more temples. "When I say we've discovered 30 percent of the Egyptian monuments, I take Saqarra as the first example," Hawass said. "Saqqara is a virgin site," he added. "It's very important for us to do this excavation to understand more about the pyramids of the Old Kingdom."

Offers you the sun

Egypt offers you the sun :)



And meets you with a smile,poor,rich,old,young,from the city,from the countryside,even while working and dirts covering his face
Meets you with a smile :)



Egypt...My Beautiful Country

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Location

The Arab Republic of Egypt Misir, is located in the north-eastern corner of Africa and south-western Asia. It is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the east by Palestine and Israel, on the south by Sudan, and on the west by Libya. The country is about 1. 085 km from north to south and about 1. 255 km from east to west. It has a total area of 1. 001450 km2

Location:

Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Libya and the Gaza Strip, and the Red Sea north of Sudan, and includes the Asian Sinai Peninsula

Geographic coordinates: 27 00 N, 30 00 E
Map references: Africa Area: Total: 1,001, 450 sq km
Land: 995, 450 sq km
Water: 6, 000 sq km

Area-comparatives:
slightly more than three times the size of New Mexico

Land boundaries:
Total: 2, 665 km

Border countries: Gaza Strip 11 km, Palestine 266 km, Libya 1,115 km, Sudan 1, 273 km.

Coastline: 2, 450 km

Maritime claims:
- Territorial sea: 12 nm
-Contiguous zone: 24 nm
-Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
-Continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Elevation extremes:
-lowest point : Qattara Depression 436 m
-highest point: Mount Catherine 2, 629 m -Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, phosphates, manganese, limestone, gypsum, talc, asbestos, lead and zinc.

Land use:
-Arable land: 2.87%
-Permanent crops: 0.48%
-Other: 96.65% (2001)

Irrigated land: 33, 000 sq km (1998 est.)

Egypt is 50 feet below sea level. Some important cities, towns, and places in Egypt are Cairo (the capital), Giza, Memphis, Thebes, Alexandria, Suez Canal, Abu Simbel, Sinai Peninsula, and Rosetta.
The highest point is Catharine Mountain that is 8,668 feet high. The lowest point is Qattara Depression and is 436 feet below sea level.
The Nile Delta is the only delta in Egypt and is 100 miles long and 155 miles wide. It is in the shape of a triangle. There are 5 important oases in Egypt and they are all located in the Libyan Desert. They are the Farafrah, Bahriah, Dakhla, Kharijah, and the Siwah oases.The area of Egypt is 386, 662 square miles. The distances from east to west are 770 miles and from north to south it is 675 miles.
There are no forests in but there are date palms and citrus groves. Papyrus plants grow only near the Nile.

Refrence: Egypt State İnformation Service

Egyptian Women

Egyptian women are strong women...
And that has a long back story both in back time 'history' and in modern time too...
Shall we try to find out a bit of both?

From Warrior Women to Female Pharaohs: Careers for Women in Ancient Egypt
By Dr Joann Fletcher

Whilst the concept of a career choice for women is a relatively modern phenomenon, the situation in ancient Egypt was rather different. For some three thousand years the women who lived on the banks of the Nile enjoyed a form of equality which has rarely been equalled.

Sexual equality

In order to understand their relatively enlightened attitudes toward sexual equality, it is important to realise that the Egyptians viewed their universe as a complete duality of male and female. Giving balance and order to all things was the female deity Maat, symbol of cosmic harmony by whose rules the pharaoh must govern.
The Egyptians recognised female violence in all its forms, their queens even portrayed crushing their enemies, executing prisoners or firing arrows at male opponents as well as the non-royal women who stab and overpower invading soldiers. Although such scenes are often disregarded as illustrating 'fictional' or ritual events, the literary and archaeological evidence is less easy to dismiss. Royal women undertake military campaigns whilst others are decorated for their active role in conflict. Women were regarded as sufficiently threatening to be listed as 'enemies of the state', and female graves containing weapons are found throughout the three millennia of Egyptian history.
'...the Greek historian Herodotus believed the Egyptians 'have reversed the ordinary practices of mankind'.'
Although by no means a race of Amazons, their ability to exercise varying degrees of power and self-determination was most unusual in the ancient world, which set such great store by male prowess, as if acknowledging the same in women would make them less able to fulfil their expected roles as wife and mother. Indeed, neighbouring countries were clearly shocked by the relative freedom of Egyptian women and, describing how they 'attended market and took part in trading whereas men sat and home and did the weaving', the Greek historian Herodotus believed the Egyptians 'have reversed the ordinary practices of mankind'.
And women are indeed portrayed in a very public way alongside men at every level of society, from co-ordinating ritual events to undertaking manual work. One woman steering a cargo ship even reprimands the man who brings her a meal with the words, 'Don't obstruct my face while I am putting to shore' (the ancient version of that familiar conversation 'get out of my way whilst I'm doing something important').
Egyptian women also enjoyed a surprising degree of financial independence, with surviving accounts and contracts showing that women received the same pay rations as men for undertaking the same job - something the UK has yet to achieve. As well as the royal women who controlled the treasury and owned their own estates and workshops, non-royal women as independent citizens could also own their own property, buy and sell it, make wills and even choose which of their children would inherit.

next...

Misir,Egypt...Where did those names come from? ?

Where those name came from ?
What do they mean?
Here,we Egyptians call our country Misir,and we are called,Missri for singular,Misreyeen for plural.
So where have those both names came from ?
Misir and the English name Egypt.

Over the millenniums, Egypt has had many names in many different languages. Today, its official name is Junhuriyaht Misr al-Arabiyah, which in English means The Arab Republic of Egypt. Egyptians themselves refer to Egypt as Misr, though this can also be a name for Cairo. Interestingly, it is common for Egyptians to refer to Egypt as Misr, if they are resident in Cairo, but if outside of Cairo, then they will refer to Cairo as Misr. In a certain respect, this is a custom that dates to the earliest times of ancient Egypt.
Basically, we can examine three groups of names which have applied to Egypt. In the early period of Egypt, during the Old Kingdom, Egypt was referred to as Kemet (Kermit), or simply Kmt , which means the Black land. They called themselves "remetch en Kermet", which means the "People of the Black Land". The term refers to the rich soil found in the Nile Valley and Delta. But it was also sometimes referred to as Deshret, or dshrt , which refers to the "Red Land", or deserts of which Egypt is mostly comprised.
Later, Egyptians referred to their country as "Hwt-ka-Ptah" (Ht-ka-Ptah, or Hout-ak Ptah) , which means "Temple for Ka of Ptah", or more properly, "House of the Ka of Ptah" Ptah was one of Egypt's earliest Gods. As in modern Egypt, this was both a name for the administrative center of Egypt, what we call Memphis today, as well as the name of the country as a whole.
Egypt, as many people of the world refer to the country today, is a derivative of this ancient name. Even today, people who speak one language often change the spelling of words in another language because of the difficulty they may have in pronouncing some of the sounds of that foreign language. Hence, in pronouncing Hwt-ka-Ptah, the Greeks changed this world to Aegyptus (Aigyptos), which they used in their literature as the name of an Egyptian King (perhaps Ramesses, though in a fictional manner), the Nile River and for the country itself. We find the word used by Homer in his famous "Odyssey. We believe the Greeks had difficulties with the Egyptian pronunciation of the letter "H" at the beginning and end of Hwt-ka-Ptah
Today, the word Egyptians often use for their country is Misr.

Miṣr, the Arabic and modern official name of Egypt (Egyptian Arabic: Maṣr), is of Semitic origin, directly cognate with other Semitic words for Egypt such as the Hebrew מִצְרַיִם (Mitzráyim), literally meaning "the two straits" (a reference to the dynastic separation of upper and lower Egypt).The word originally connoted "metropolis" or "civilization" and also means "country", or "frontier-land".
And the English name "Egypt" came via the Latin word Aegyptus derived from the ancient Greek word Aígyptos (Αίγυπτος).

Refrences:
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/kmt.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt

Ahlan Wa Sahlan...Merhaba ...Hello

Ahlan wa sahlan,Merhaba,Hello to everyone and welcome to the Egyptian Corner :)

The Egyptian Corner is a place where we will try to have a look at the Egyptian life,some about history,some about language,some about daily life,some about tradition,some about religion,and some about people..all form the Egyptian life
We will walk together,and have our stopes,at some we just visit then leave,and at some we will visit,stay...and then go to another one,another stop.
İ wish you would enjoy your tours with us.

Just mind you..we are still a baby born idea which still under construction :)
Met you with a smile,and leaving you with a smile :)
Until we meat again
Selam ,bye