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Turkish	English	Examples, supplements, and explanations
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Babil	Babylon [Iraq]	Babil Kulesi; Tower of Babel
Bağdat	Baghdad [Iraq]	Map of Baghdad in Turkish Left click to view image enlargement.
bakan	[a] minister
Bakanlar Kurulu	The Turkish 'Cabinet', called the Council of Ministers
Bamiyan	Bamian [ancient city in central Afghanistan, northwest of Kabul]	Bamian was first mentioned in Chinese history around 400 AD. The Chinese made it a center of commerce and, also, of the Buddhist religion. Prior to their destruction by the Taliban in 2000 AD, two great statues of Buddha (dating from 630 AD) overlooked the city -- sculpted in bas-relief from the massive flat rock-surface at the base of the Hindu Kush mountain range. The larger one was 175 feet high and the smaller was 120 feet. The two statues, together with numerous ancient man-made caves in the cliffs north of the town, once made Bamian a major Afghan archaeological site. The town's rulers first accepted Islam in the 8th century. After changing hands several times, it was destroyed and its inhabitants exterminated in 1221 by the Mongol invader Genghis Khan. But even the brutal Khan was 'civilized' enough to leave the Buddha statues intact.₆₆
Bangladeş (Bangladeşli, Bengali)	Bangladesh (a Bangladeshi person/thing, the language of Bangladesh)
Barents Denizi	the Barents Sea	Sea named for Dutch navigator Willem Barents who searched for a northeast passage from Europe to Asia. The Barents Sea forms an outlying portion, 800 miles long and 650 miles wide, of the Arctic Ocean.₆₆
barış	peace	Nobel Barış Ödülü; [the] Nobel Peace Prize In the news: 13 October 2001, the UN and Secretary General Kofi Annan jointly win the 100th Nobel Peace Prize.
Barış Gücü	Peace-keeping Force
Barselona	Barcelona [Spain]	Touristic Turkish map of Barcelona and environs... Left click for image enlargement.
barut fıçısı	powder-keg	In the news: 19 November 2003...As depicted in the following political cartoon (which appeared in the religious-right newspaper Zaman), Istanbul was still a powder-keg after the simultaneous suicide bombings of a Jewish synagogue (on 15 November). And, just one day later (on 20 November), suicide bombers struck Istanbul again. About to explode, again... Left click for image enlargement. Zaman Gazetesi (19 November 2003) Also see example sentence on the Idioms Letter-B page.
Basra Körfezi	See İran Körfezi
Başbakan	Prime Minister, Premier
Başbakan Yardımcısı	Deputy Prime Minister
Başkan	President	Başkan George W. Bush; President George W. Bush
Başkan Yardımcısı	Vice President	Başkan Yardımcısı Dick Cheney; Vice President Dick Cheney
başkent	capital city
başkonsolos	Consul General, Head Consul	In the news: Istanbul, 20 November 2003...A terrorist suicide bomber waited patiently until the British Consul General, Roger Short, entered the consulate building before ramming his explosive-laden vehicle (disguised as a food-dispensing truck) into the consulate wall. The massive explosion that followed killed the Consul General (along with the bomber and at least 14 others) -- and wounded hundreds. Roger Short, RIP Left click for image enlargement.
Başsavcı	Attorney General
Batı dünyası	the 'Western World'
Batı Şeria	[the] West Bank	...is the area of the former British-mandated (1920-47) territory of Palestine west of the Jordan River, claimed from 1949 to 1988 as part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan but occupied from 1967 by Israel.₆₆
bayrak	flag	bayrak çekmek; to hoist a flag bayrak yarıya indirmek; to fly the flag at half-mast bayrak yarıya indirilmek; for the flag to be to flown at half-mast
BBP	Büyük Birlik Partisi (Big Unity Party)	...is a Turkish political party with religious-right affiliations -- which is led (in January 2003) by Muhin Yazıcıoğlu.
bedel	[the] equivilant of, equal in value [to]	bedelli; someone who has paid to be exempted from Turkish military service
Belçika (Belçikalı, Hollandaca, Fransızca, Flamanca, Almanca)	Belgium (a Belgian person/thing, the languages of Belgium [Belgian, French, Flemish, German])
Belediye Başkanı	Mayor [of a city, town, province]
Belucistan	Balochistan, the western-most province of Pakistan	It is bordered by Iran (west), by Afghanistan (northwest), by North-West Frontier and Punjab provinces (northeast and east), by Sindh province (southeast), and by the Arabian Sea (south).₆₆
Benin [Cumhürriyet] (Beninli, Fransızca)	[People's Republic of] Benin (a Beninese person/thing, the language of Benin [French]) Benin's Vital Statistics in Turkish Left click for image enlargement.	From 1625 until it passed to the hegemony of France in 1899, the country was continuously known as the Dahomey Kingdom. The name Dahomey (meaning "on the belly of Dan") derives from... Continue reading "The Belly of Dan"...» Map of Benin and neighboring countries in Turkish Left click for image enlargement.
benzin	petroleum, gasoline	Map showing petroleum and fresh water resources in The Middle East in Turkish Left click for image enlargement.
Beyaz Rusya	Belarus [White Russia]
Beyaz Saray	[the] "White House"	...term used to represent the U.S. Presidency (aka the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government) ...or the building complex where the U.S. President lives and works... also see "Köşk"
Beyrut	Beirut [Lebanon]
Beyt Lahia	[a town in Palestinian territory]
Beytüllahim	Bethlehem [a town in Palestinian territory]
Bhutan (Bhutanlı, Dzongkha)	[Kingdom of] Bhutan (a Bhutanese person/thing, the official language of Bhutan [Dzongkha -- a dialect of Tibetin])	April 2006 -- The country has no written constitution or bill of rights at the current time, but the king commissioned the drafting of a constitution in 2001, and in March 2005 he publicly unveiled it. It now awaits a national referendum.₁₄₇ The Kingdom of Bhutan₁₄₇ Left click for image enlargement.
bilanço	balance, balance sheet
'Bir Milyon Insan Yürüyüşü'	'The Million Man March'	...the event in October 1995 in Washington, D.C., in which some 835,000 participants 'marched' peacefully, to demonstrate solidarity among black males and to instill a sense of personal responsibility for improving the condition of African-Americans. The event boosted the 'reputation' of Louis Farrakhan, leader of The Nation of Islam -- previously considered a compelling but marginal racial demagogue -- who was the event's principle organizer.₆₆ One of the convicted 'Beltway Snipers' John Allen Muhammad was reportedly employed to provide 'security' during the event for the participants.
Birinci Dünya Savaşı	[the] First World War
Birleşik Arap Emirlikleri (Birleşik Arap Emirliklerili, Arapça)	United Arab Emirates (a person/thing from the United Arab Emirates, the language of the United Arab Emirates [Arabic])
Birleşmiş Milletler	[the] United Nations	Often seen as the acronym BM.
birlik	[a] [military] unit
Birmanya	Burma -- former name of Myanmar
bitki örtüsü	vegetation
biyolojik silahlar	biological weapons
Boğaziçi	[the] Bosphorus/Bosporus	...is the watery strait passing through Istanbul, that separates Turkey into its (northern) European and (southern) Anatolian sections.
boreal ormanı	[the] boreal forest [AKA, taiga]	...is forest vegetation that spans broad belts of Eurasia and North America (from Canada to Alaska). There is no true boreal forest in the continental USA. The taiga of Asia extends across Russia and southward into northeastern China and Mongolia. In Europe most of Finland, Sweden, and Norway are covered with boreal forest -- as is an isolated area in the Scottish Highlands. Boreal forest is typical in regions that have long winters and moderate to high annual precipitation. Vegetation is composed primarily of cone-bearing, needle-leaved, or scale-leaved evergreen trees. ₆₆
boru hattı	[a] 'pipe line'	önerilen boru hattı; a proposed 'pipe line' Iraqi Oil Pipelines illustration and commentary in Turkish Left click for image enlargement.
Bosna-Hersek	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bretanya	Brittany	...is a region in northwestern France. The Bay of Biscay lies to the southwest and the English Channel to the north.₆₆
Brezilya (Brezilyalı, Portekizce) (Only on CD)	Brazil (a Brazilian person/thing, the language of Brazil [Portuguese])
Brüksel	Brussels [Belgium]
Bulgaristan (Bulgar, Bulgarca)	Bulgaria (a Bulgarian person/thing, the Bulgarian language)
buhran	crisis	buhran fonu; crisis fund
burkini	the name [given jokingly to the Muslim woman's swim suit at right, by its Australian designer Aheda Zanetti], mixes the words 'bikini' and 'burka'	Designer Swimwear for Muslim Women Click for enlargement! Thanks to Radikal Gazetesi 14Jan2007
Bükreş	Bucharest [Rumania]
bütçe	budget
Büyük Okyanus Also see Pasifik Okyanusu...	[the] Pacific Ocean	Map of Pacific Ocean near San Francisco in Turkish Left click for image enlargement.
Büyükelçi (Büyükelçilik)	Ambassador (Embassy)

Turkish Newspaper Readers Encyclopedic Dictionary 'B'

Turkish Newspaper Readers
Encyclopedic Dictionary
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