Little by little and bit by bit. (English proverb) The one who tells the stories rules the world.. (Native American proverb, Hopi) If there's no choice but advice, ask for the decisiveness of an advisor or the advice of a decisive person.. (Arabic proverb) Better a good neighbour than a distant friend..
Turkey earthquake reveals a new active fault zone By Wendy Zukerman An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck Turkey yesterday, killing more than 200 people and injuring thousands. Turkey is one of the most quake-prone countries in the world. Most of it lies on the Anatolian plate, a small wedge-shaped tectonic plate that is being squeezed westwards as the Arabian plate to the east slams into the Eurasian plate.
Republic of Turkey, Turkey-a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923. Chalcedon, Kadikoy-a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon.agia Sofia, Hagia Sophia, Santa Sofia, Santa Sophia-a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century.