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Questions
Re-titled “Confused Quest” in some places, “Three Daughters of Eve” is about a middle-aged housewife who fell in love with an Oxford University professor during her student days. It is a work by which female Turkish feminist novelist, who also wrote “The Bastard of Istanbul” and “The Forty Rules of Love”?
ELIF SHAFAK
Using both a cuneiform and hieroglyphic script, which Anatolian language was associated with a people who were prominent at the time of the Hittite Empire? They had their own pantheon, with Tarhunz being the equivalent of the Hittite storm god Tarhunna.
LUWIAN
An area that contains the city of Edirne and one end of the Çanakkale 1915 Bridge that spans the Dardanelles, what two-word name is most commonly given to the Turkish part of Europe?
EAST / EASTERN THRACE
Spending a long time in prison for upsetting the authorities, which Turkish poet who has been translated into more than 50 languages has poems including “A Sad State of Freedom” and “On Living”? Folk musician Pete Seeger turned an anti-nuclear poem of his into “I Come and Stand at Every Door”.
NAZIM HIKMET
In which district that lies on the European side of Istanbul is the city’s new airport that first opened to passenger services in 2019? Its name means ‘Albanian village’ in Turkish.
ARNAVUTKÖY
The neolithic settlement of Nevalı Çori and the earlier Göbekli Tepe can both be found in which province of Turkey that lies on the border with Syria? Its capital has the same name or a variation that drops the first five letters, with it having been founded as Edessa during the Hellenistic period.
ŞANLIURFA
Named for a village that takes its name from a warlord who fought under Timur at the 1402 Battle of Ankara, what is the name of the airport that serves Turkey’s capital?
ESENBOĞA
Opening in 2010 and greatly cutting down on the previous travel time required from Antalya’s airport, what is the name of the municipality that would be the most likely flight destination for someone wishing to visit the beach resort city of Alanya?
GAZIPAŞA
Named for a municipality just over 50km to its east, which airport serves the city of Bursa?
YENIŞEHIR
Yaşar Kemal’s novel “Teneke”, a word which translates as ‘drumming-out’, first appeared in which Turkish newspaper that was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2016? Its editor-in-chief Can Dündar is exiled in Germany, with an arrest warrant having been issued for him in Turkey.
CUMHURIYET
Part of the plan for the Fourth Crusade was to restore which imprisoned emperor to the Byzantine throne? Though this happened in 1203 it did not last, and he died early in 1204.
ISAAC II (ANGELOS)
Who had usurped the throne from his younger brother Isaac II Angelos in 1195, blinding him during the process? He ended up being ousted during the Fourth Crusade in 1203.
ALEXIOS III (ANGELOS)
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