Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Once upon a time in Afghanistan. Afghan military secondary school cadets c. 1920. Note. The school was founded in Bala Hissar with the help of Turkish military advisors. 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOfl...youtube.com“Binbaşı Abdürrauf’un Harp Günlükleri”, İş Kültür’de!YouTube video by İş Kültür 010
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is an interesting lecture, comparing Zionism with Greek Cypriot Enotism by Prof. Varnava www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxlY...youtube.comProfessor Andrekos Varnava on Zionism and Enotism (Greek Cypriot enosis) as Colonialist IdeologiesYouTube video by Andrekos Varnava 010
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I like reading the 1950s and 60s books. They contain uncut jewels like this one. Source: Will&Aril Durant, The Lessons of History 030
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Today's art gallery shot. Guo Jian, Untitled no. 1 Apparently the artist inspired from Caravaggio. 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026An Aussie type "unfortunate error" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auWrong landmark spotted on Sydney Marathon medal a week out from eventRunners who finish the Sydney Marathon will receive a medal featuring a football stadium in Germany instead of Moore Park due to an "unfortunate error". 130
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026While taking a look at an old hard disc I found this photo taken in Kabul in March 2002. We distributed stationery and other items to a girls' school, making them very happy. These smiling girls managed to get education but their daughters will not. Nothing to say. 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026While scrolling through the pages of Ralamb book of costumes, I came across the picture of Ottoman Robin Hood. But unlike his English counterpart Ottoman Robin opted for advance weapons by replacing bow and arrow with arquebus 071
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This 1/250,000 scale military map (1921) is the last Palestine map that was published by the Ottoman Empire. 050
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Surprising development in New Zealand, giving a snapshot of domestic sensitivities edition.cnn.com/2026/08/03/a...edition.cnn.comNew Zealand has a new official language — English | CNNLawmakers in New Zealand have passed a bill to make English one of the country’s official languages. 010
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Gallipoli Campaign of the FWW is riddled with legends and stories. But this one by Australian soldier A.B. Facey is the most bizarre and funny one, just like an ancient Greek story with disappearing swimmers and a huge sea monster. 064
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026What do you think about this excerpt? Source: Walter Reid, Empire of Sand, 2011 220
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026It is always marvellous to put your hand on a hard copy of your book. 3271
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026A tragic photo from Cyprus in January 1962. A Turkish Cypriot girl who had to escape from her village was trying to shepherd animals while carrying the framed marriage photo of her parents. 040
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 05/07/2026In 1948 the US Government organised a press tour to Turkey in order to show how successful and crucial the US military aid to Turkish Armed Forces. But photo-obsessive Life Magazine editors decided to put Turkish cavalry brigade at the front instead of new US tanks 1/ 150
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026At the end of the FWW there was a big popular interest in the US about Turkey due to discussions about Armenian mandate. Newspapers capitalized on this popularity by publishing interesting and quirky stories about Turkey See one of them below about Sabbatean crypto-Jews (New York Times, 26 Jan 1919) 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I am glad to announce the publication of my edited work. www.routledge.com/Eight-Armies...routledge.comEight Armies on the Gallipoli PeninsulaThe Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, reveal... 2288
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Anybody remembers this strange but meaningful Soviet arithmetic poster? 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026No comment! Source: Burgmann, Wheatley, Radicals: Remembering the Sixties, Newsouth, Sydney, 2021 040
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Mustafa Zarif Paşa'nın Asakiri Mansure'nin ilk kurulduğu dönemde yüzbaşı rütbesi ve yeni Avrupa tarzı üniformasıyla Siverek ve Urfa'ya gittiğinde başından geçenler. "Sizin hiç uatanmanız hayanız yok mu?" Bahse konu yüzbaşı üniformasının temsili resmini de ekleyeyim. 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026From Life Magazine archive. Turkish (right) and Iranian border guards posed in front of magnificent view of Great and Lesser Ararat (Ağrı) for western journalist during the hot days of the Cold War in 1951 051
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026My university UNSW has managed to become no. 1 in Australian and no. 19 in the world according to 2027 QS World University Rankings🎉 040
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Today while dining this abomination convoy passed in front of us. Mobile bilboards making Russian propaganda in Sydney. Thanks to standard Z incompetency one of the trucks crashed a tree and damaged a car. youtube.com/watch?v=8D1F... 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The first known Arab with a large private library decided to burn his books before his death out of jealousy. 0103
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Today this photo popped up on my screen while looking for something. It immediately clicked some bitter memories. I was a UN military observer in Abkhazia in 2000-2001. With the start of each mandarin harvest season the violence would reach to its peak. As if mandarin was a kind of narcotic drug 2143
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Is there any body remembering de Gaulle's what if wish? "Ah, cher ami, if only we had 180 million people!" 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Would you belive this? British Conservative Party 1929 general election poster. 061
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Sad to hear that Marjane Satrapi of Persepolis (graphic novel-movie) has passed away a few hours ago. She was just 56 years old. Ruhesh shad! 072
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 31/05/2026#BookoftheDay I've started reading Dewey's Impressions of Soviet Russia and Revolutionary World. See the first pages of chapter allocated for Turkey. 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Bayramınız kutlu olsun. Bu yüklü gündemde huzur zor. O yüzden sağlık ve esenlikler dilerim. Eid mubarak 030
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26/05/2026From White Horde (Ak Orda) to Golden Horde (Altın Orda) Kazakhstan's new historical choice. timesca.com/kazakhstan-r...timesca.comKazakhstan Reclaims the Golden Horde - The Times Of Central AsiaKazakhstan’s symposium on the Golden Horde opens, in formal institutional terms, the question of where the country locates its statehood. Held in Astana on 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Gandhi day demonstrations in Delhi in July 1922. Notice the presence of Turkish flag which became the symbol resistance against the British 052
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Any body remembers this American nativist anti-immigrant party better known as "Know Nothing"? I came across it while reading a book about American Civil War. They certainly were nasty people but at least they were honest to say that they knew nothing. 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Human swastika. When I first came across this photo I though it must be fake. But turned out to be genuine. A Pictish grave slab, 7th century. www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-... 330
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Life imitates art Entomological warfare (EW) Banksy's work "Withus Oraganistus" 2005 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Counting down. One month left. www.routledge.com/Eight-Armies...routledge.comEight Armies on the Gallipoli PeninsulaThe Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, reveal... 050
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Australia has returned back to the 1920s. What's next? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...abc.net.auOutbreak of highly contagious infection grows to more than 220 casesFederal and state governments have mobilised to address the largest outbreak of diphtheria in recent memory, with the Commonwealth preparing a support package for a disease once considered almost erad... 020
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Dozens of way to die in battle during the Medieval age 051
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Child poverty is increasing even in welfare states. The grimness of the situation reminds me the Victorian age crusades to rescue destitute and deprived children. 010