Country Crossword: Turkiye

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  1. 2. In this novel by Elif Shafak, a housewife finds a guide to love written by a thirteenth century poet.
  2. 5. Waterfalls that drain into the Mediterranean.
  3. 6. City previously known as Iconium into Seljuk times.
  4. 8. Founder of the modern Turkish Republic.
  5. 10. Founder of the Ottoman Empire.
  6. 12. Failed British invasion of the Ottoman Empire during WWI.
  7. 13. So named because of its interior tiles. Its real name is the Sultan Ahmed Mosque.
  8. 16. Capital of Turkiye
  9. 19. City founded by Attalus II that became a prosperous Roman city.
  10. 21. Mosque that began its life as a church; its name translates to “Holy Wisdom.”
  11. 23. City known for its gastronomy, damaged in the 2023 earthquake.
  12. 25. City that has been inhabited for more than 3000 years, located near Mesopotamia.
  13. 26. History of a wealthy Istanbul family, from the Ottoman Empire to the 1970s, written by Orhan Palmuk.
  14. 27. Riots between the Blues and the Greens that led to half of Constantinople being burned.
  15. 29. Founder of the Mevlevi Order.
  16. 30. City previously known as Smyrna.
  17. 31. First major capital of the Ottoman Empire.
  18. 34. Zosimus' account of the Roman Empire between the death of Constantine and its sack by the Visigoths.
  19. 35. Beach that was the birthplace of Saint Nicolas, who would later be the namesake of Santa.
  20. 36. Led the conquest of Belgrade, Rhodes, and the Middle East before being turned back at Vienna. Labeled “The Magnificent.”
  21. 39. An adaptation of the novel "The Wife" written by Chekov, this 2014 movie, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, won the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival.
  22. 40. Naval admiral who conquered Algiers from Spain, captured Tunis, and fought alongside the French fleet, securing Ottoman dominance in the Mediterranean.
  23. 41. Market established in 1461.
  24. 45. Student of Plato who created the (inaccurate) concentric sphere model and developed insight into irrational numbers.
  25. 46. Former city that once was home to the Temple of Artemis.
  26. 47. Scrambled eggs cooked in tomato, a popular component of Turkish breakfasts.
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  1. 1. Site of the oldest megaliths in the world.
  2. 3. Legendary city whose walls stood for ten years, according to Homer. Now, the ruins are a tourist attraction.
  3. 4. Whole eggplant stuffed with onions, tomatoes, and garlic. It's name means "The Imam fainted," which naturally comes with different explanations.
  4. 7. Means “cotton castle” in Turkish. This formation is made of travertine, a sedimentary rock with a high mineral content.
  5. 9. Region known for its rock formations called “fairy chimneys”
  6. 11. Byzantine empress and wife of Justinian I who is revered as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church.
  7. 14. Pastry filled with nuts and sweetened with syrup.
  8. 15. Residence for the Ottoman Sultans until the 1600s
  9. 17. Underground city that served as shelter for refugees of the Arab-Byzantine Wars.
  10. 18. Ottoman Sultan who took Constantinople.
  11. 20. Family of pastries made with yufka.
  12. 22. Largest city in Turkiye and one of the largest in Europe
  13. 24. Mahmud II's forced disbandment (and often execution) of the Janissary Corps.
  14. 28. Architect known for creating many of Istanbul's mosques.
  15. 32. Scholar who ended the Mongol invasion of the Levant, known for his critique of saint veneration.
  16. 33. Meaning "The Girl Child" in English, this anti-war poem by Nazim Hikmet centers on a girl ten years after her death at the bombing of Hiroshima.
  17. 37. First man to achieve sustained unpowered flight by using a pair of wings and jumping from the Galata Tower across the Bosphorus.
  18. 38. Battle that allowed the Seljuk Turks to expand into Anatolia.
  19. 42. Mountain that was often called Olympus. NO, NOT THAT ONE.
  20. 43. Resort city that the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos once called home.
  21. 44. Astrophysicist who discovered a unique double ringed elliptical galaxy that now bears her name.