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The wolf salute, as used by the Turkish ultranationalist organization Grey Wolves The wolf salute, the grey wolf salute, or the grey wolf gesture, also known as wolf sign, the grey wolf sign, or the grey wolf symbol (Turkish: Bozkurt işareti), is a Turkish nationalist hand gesture. The gesture originated in the early 20th century, and was introduced by Alparslan Türkeş, leader of the Grey ...
InterCaribbean Airways, Ltd.[1] (formerly known as Air Turks & Caicos) is a regional airline based in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory. The airline offers scheduled passenger flights and charter flight services from its hub in Providenciales International Airport. Since its launch in 1991, its travel destinations have expanded to multiple Caribbean islands including ...
The Arab Revolt (Arabic: الثورة العربية al-Thawra al-'Arabiyya), also known as the Great Arab Revolt (الثورة العربية الكبرى al-Thawra al-'Arabiyya al-Kubrā), was an armed uprising by the Hashemite -led Arabs of the Hejaz [12] against the Ottoman Empire amidst the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. On the basis of the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence ...
The main reason that the Grey Wolf is considered sacred and is the national symbol of the Turks is based on the belief that a she-wolf named Asena (Kökböri, Bozkurt) guided the Turks as they emerged from Ergenekon by melting the iron mountains, as described in the Epic of Ergenekon. Today the Grey Wolf is a symbol of Turkish nationalism.
The German-Turkish Treaty of Friendship of 1941 The two sides signing the pact The German–Turkish Treaty of Friendship (German: Türkisch-Deutscher Freundschaftsvertrag, Turkish: Türk-Alman Dostluk Paktı) was a non-aggression pact signed between Nazi Germany and Turkey on 18 June 1941 in Ankara by German ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen and Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Şükrü ...
International dialing prefixes are used when dialing international telephone calls by telephone users. These prefixes are typically required only when dialling from a landline, while in GSM -compliant mobile phone (cell phone) systems, the symbol + before the destination country code may be used irrespective of the location of the telephone when dialing. The network operator provides the ...
The Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz (Arabic: المملكة الحجازية الهاشمية, romanized: Al-Mamlakah al-Ḥijāziyyah Al-Hāshimiyyah) was a state in the Hejaz region of Western Asia that included the western portion of the Arabian Peninsula that was ruled by the Hashemite dynasty. It was self-proclaimed as a kingdom in June 1916 during the First World War, to be independent from ...
The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922[f] was fought between Greece and the Turkish National Movement during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, between 15 May 1919 and 14 October 1922. This conflict was a part of the Turkish War of Independence. The Greek campaign was launched primarily because the western Allies, particularly British prime minister David ...