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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Ataturk

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video segment illustrates Islamic and secular elements of life in Turkey, and introduces Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first president of Turkey, and his reforms. Focuses on fashion, specifically Islamic dress in response to...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Diverse Turkish Women

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video segment compares two women in Turkey, one from a more religious family, and the other from a more secular family. [3:51]
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Yoruk

For Students 9th - 10th
The Yoruk are an ethnic-tribal grouping found widely throughout Turkey but primarily along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. The Yoruk are not linguistically distinct from most of the rural populations among whom they live. They speak...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Sir Gobble [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
"Sir Gobble" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a little girl who was given a young turkey to raise for Thanksgiving dinner. The turkey became her pet and she was upset about him becoming dinner. It is followed by questions...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Turks

For Students 9th - 10th
Ethnically, the Turks are a cultural group united by a common language, but the term "Turk" has no clearly defined racial significance; it can be properly applied to those communities historically and linguistically connected to the...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Syriacs

For Students 9th - 10th
Syriac is a branch of the Aramaic family of languages and was the lingua franca of the eastern Roman Empire at the beginning of the Christian era. It is also spoken extensively in the regions farther east. It became the language of...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Kurds

For Students 9th - 10th
The Kurds have inhabited an area of rugged mountains and high plains at the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for over two thousand years. Their traditional mode of subsistence is pastoralism and agriculture. The territory...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Industry and Islam

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video segment explores economic and religious development in Kayseri, a city in central Turkey.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Fashion Show

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Wide Angle video, visit Istanbul, Turkey for the fashion show of Tekbir, a clothing line of conservative fashions for Muslim women. [2:54]
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Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects: Learn Zazaki

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Study an Iranian language spoken most commonly in eastern Turkey. Beginners will find common phrases, greetings, and vocabulary to learn and play games for guided practice.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: It's a Church. It's a Mosque. It's Hagia Sophia.

For Students 9th - 10th
If walls could talk, Turkey's Hagia Sophia would have an abundance of stories to tell. Once a church, then a mosque, and now a museum, this world marvel has stood the test of time and war, surviving centuries of conquest by some of...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Little Nellie's Bird Cage by R. Lee

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Little Nellie's Bird-Cage by R. Lee (c1885), a nonfiction, illustrated book about various kinds of birds such as the turkey, swan, fowls, duck, goose, etc.
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Yale University

Yale Law: Baghdad Pact, February 4, 1955

For Students 9th - 10th
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School provides the articles of the Baghdad Pact of mutual cooperation between Iraq, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, and Iran on February 4, 1955.
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Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Harry S. Truman Library and Museum: Truman Doctrine

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description of the Truman Doctrine. It includes charts showing the aid given to Turkey and Greece.
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BBC

Bbc: Armenia Pm Tigran Sarkisian 'Ready for Turkish Ties'

For Students 9th - 10th
This article by BBC correspondent Mark Grigoryan examines Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian's desire to establish diplomatic relations with Turkey. (June 16, 2011)
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Laz

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the culture of the Laz people of Turkey. Explore topics such as their history, economy, past settlements, cultural values, religion, and sociopolitical organization.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Jacobites

For Students 9th - 10th
The Jacobites, today numbering some half a million, adhere to a branch of Christianity that is most commonly known as the Jacobite church. They are to be found mostly in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey. The Jacobites were one of...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Assyrians

For Students 9th - 10th
Ancient Assyrians were inhabitants of one the world's earliest civilizations, Mesopotamia, which began to emerge around 3500 B . C . The Assyrians invented the world's first written language and the 360-degree circle, established...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Nestorians

For Students 9th - 10th
The designation "Nestorian" connotes both a religious rite and a linguistic minority, a phenomenon that is often misunderstood. Nestorians today, some 100,000 of them, have found a lasting home in the mountains of Kurdistan, the...
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Contemplator

Popular Songs in American History: Turkey in the Straw

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the lyrics to an early minstrel song that was popular during Andrew Jackson's presidency.
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Other

Turizm.net: Byzantine Remnants in Anatolia & Ankara

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this site for a description of Byzantine architectural ruins found throughout the former Byzantine Empire, particularly modern Anatolia and Ankara (Turkey).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Still Life With Turkey Pie

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Still-life with Turkey-Pie", created by Pieter Claesz in 1627 (Oil on wood, 75 x 132 cm).

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