Romania-turkey connected

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Romania-turkeyconnected

• By Ana Dorofte
• and
• Georgiana Tarlungeanu

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Just a short introduction!
Iyi Günler! As it may be known to
many of you, the Turkish and Romanian people's
destinies have been intertwined throughout
history. This is best shown in the many common
cultural points which the two nationalities
share, such as the language similarities, and how
could one forget the delicious traditional
cuisine in which one can encounter delectable
concurrences?
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Shall we dance?

• Approximately 32.596 Turkish people live in
  Romania, most of them residing in the
  southeastern part, which is called Dobrogea. But
  these are just mere facts. It will prove more
  interesting for our readers to find out that this
  community does not forget about their Turkish
  origins and celebrate them together with their
  Romanian friends, in a celebration called
  Hîdîrlez, whose purpose was to promote specific
  Turkish tradition to the representatives of our
  youth. Therefore, traditional Turkish songs and
  dances were performed, in order to mark the
  beginning of summer.

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Mosque Esmahan Sultan, Mangalia

• Built by the daughter of the Sultan Selim the
  second, the mosque is surrounded by a Muslim
  cemitery. The ritual fountain's construction was
  made out of stones taken from an old roman
  cemitery. When the time comes for the two Islam
  celebrations- 'Idul Fitr and 'Idul Adha- the
  mosque suddenly becomes too small for the great
  mass of people who come to attend the
  celebration.
• Also, it will not seem in the least bit
  peculiar to say that this is
• The oldest mosque in Romania, since its
  year of creation dates back from 1575.

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We both have them!

• It might not come across as a surprise that the
  Romanian heritage of thesaurus has common points
  with the Turkish ones. Some good instances would
  be found in the Romanian words
• liliac, buzdugan, rachiu, cazma.
• Our common past reflects even upon our
  traditional food chiftea, and its turkish
• equivalent kofte, and also sarmale
  sarma.

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Rediscover ourselves, our nations!
As a conclusion, I would like to present
the reader a quote ''In order to stave off
covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world
over must be educated ''.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
believed in the power of arduously educating
oneself in order to better understand the
world.We, as a part of it, must open our eyes and
attentively observe our similarities, as well as
our differences, in order to realize that, maybe,
our ideals resemble each other more than we might
have expected.
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Waiting forword to start our journey together!

• Your friends,
• Romanians.