It is always frightening to see when images of war and destruction are presented by the media. Once again it becomes clear how contemptibly one deals with the lives of others when it comes to political or, even worse, so-called religious or ideological goals.

The strong connections between Turks and Germans, at least as far as interpersonal relationships are concerned, were once again very present on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, which took place in Bremen as part of a ceremony in the ballroom of the town hall.

The probably most important event in the centuries-old history of the town of Braunlage was without a doubt the opening of the border in 1989.

Women's rights, equal rights, emancipation and, as a result, women's suffrage are all terms that can still be heard in the media almost every day.

Well known to every reader and listener from the public media, according to the Maya calendar, on December 21, 2012, the earth is threatened with an abrupt end.

In pictures or photographs of the Orient and the Balkans in the early 19th century, men are usually seen wearing a special headgear called fez / fez or tarbush.

Only a few kilometers away from the tourist-oriented coastal towns on the Turkish Riviera and the Turkish Aegean, not only the landscape and nature are changing fundamentally, the population is also fundamentally different.

The Greek Konstantin Issigonis and his Bavarian wife Hulda Prokopp left their Greek home island of Paros at the end of the 18th century in order to run a machine factory in the city of Smyrna, today's Izmir.

Especially in the last few years, the term Ergenekon can be read again and again in the daily press reports, mostly accompanied by a wave of arrests of politicians, journalists or lawyers and officers and trials against public figures; the television news even mentions conspiracy theories and state attacks.

Our visit to the Forest Fire Station of Dursunbey came together with the meeting of some Roman artifacts that justified our interest to further research in the history of Dursunbey or Balat, how the city was called until 100 years ago.

Coming to Turkey for the first time you may wonder that wherever you go there are pictures or monuments showing Ataturk.

Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, the son of an Ottoman family graduated from Oxford, was convicted of some obscure crime in 1925 and exiled to Bodrum for three years.

The word "Haymatloz" was written in capital letters in the passports of Jewish refugees who tried to escape to Turkey during World War II. More than 1000 German people immigrated to the Bosporus from 1933 until 1945  and they left traces which can still be seen today. 

Our visit to the Christmas market in Naumburg yesterday has once again deepened the mystery of the customs surrounding the mistletoe that is hung on front doors during Advent - what is the truth behind this ancient mythology?

Emerging from the merger of various nomadic tribes around 500 AD, the tribal federation of the "Turks" was initially more of a community of interests that campaigned for the expansion of their pastures and control of the few oasis towns in Central Asia.

In our article on the dynasty of the ancient Persian Achaemenids, we reported on the development of the ancient city of Kelainai, which was later called Apameia Kibotos and was located at the sources of the Meander river.

What armies could not do was possible for the great hero Bellerophon, who, like Heracles, was one of the great heroes of Greek mythology.

Pastor Jean Richier called the Easter bunny hiding the eggs "a fable to be opened to the simple-minded and to children" (fabula, que simplicioribus et infantibus imponunt) and he consequently had to leave his native France in the 17th century for reasons of religious persecution.

Our tour of the central cemetery in Vienna brought not only our amazement due to the huge dimensions of the cemetery, the sometimes bizarre types of use and the social integration into the local people community, but also numerous insights into the symbolism on the tombstones and monuments.

Poseidon (Latin: Neptunus) was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes in Greek mythology. The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon.