Tarzan of Manisa
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Tarzan of Manisa is a pseudonym of Ahmet bin Carlak, a Turkish environmentalist who lived on Mount Sipylus near Manisa, in western Turkey, for 40 years. He is considered the first environmentalist in
Tarzan Heykeli ("the statue of Tarzan"), statue of Ahmet Bedevi in Manisa
The Topkale ("Gun's castle") the hut on Mount Sipylus where Bedevi lived for 40 years
The old cannon which Bedevi fired daily to signal midday
Iraqi Turkmens
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The Iraqi Turkmens, also referred to as Iraqi Turks, are the third largest ethnic group in Iraq. Their traditional homeland is in northern Iraq, mainly Kirkuk and Nineveh provinces, with Kirkuk consid
Tarzan of Manisa
…Bedevi" ("the bedouin Ahmet"). Carlak was born in 1899. Depending on the sources, his hometown is reported as Baghdad or Samarra. His family was of Iraqi Turkmen descent, originally from Kirkuk, Iraq. In his early teens, he met Meral, the daughter of Sheikh Tahir, a Turkmen tribal leader, and got engaged to her…
Ethnic flag of the Iraqi Turkmens
Suleiman the Magnificent defeated the Safavids on 31 December 1534, gaining Baghdad and, later, southern Iraq. Throughout the Ottoman reign, the Ottomans encouraged Turkish migration along northern Iraq.
A large influx of Turks continued to settle in Iraq once Murad IV recaptured Baghdad in 1638.
Bilingual sign (Arabic and Turkish) of a Turkmen village.