mental verbs are wanted to be uttered by concretizesing them in order to add power and beauty to the expression. These mental verbs are mostly expressed through metaphors. In Turkmen Turkish, abstract mental verbs have gained a metaphoric phraseology by simile and concretization. While concretizising and similing, elements from Turkish culture were used. Cultural differences between societies h...

The aim of the current study was to investigate breast cancer screening performance among Iranian Turkmen women along with their knowledge and beliefs. A cross-sectional study was carried out in June to December 2011. Through clustered sampling method, 1080 Iranian Turkmen women completed the questionnaire including breast cancer screening adherence, knowledge, fatalism beliefs, and perceived t...

In April 2000 the South African Heritage Resource Agency (SAHRA) succeeded the previous National Monuments Council that was responsible for the management and maintenance of heritage sites in South Africa. SAHRA is legally based on the National Heritage Resource Act (NHRA) of 1999, which re-defines heritage in a revolutionary way. Until then “heritage” had always been defined as physical object...

Ramsar international wetlands of Alagol, Almagol and Ajigol with a surface of 3027 ha are located in the vast Turkmen-Sahra plains (Golestan prov.) in east of Caspian Sea and in the vicinity of the Iran-Turkmenistan political border. Flora, vegetation and habitat diversity of the wetlands were surveyed during growing seasons of 2014 and 2015. A total of 159 plant taxa belonging to 123 genera an...

1Department of Internal Medicine, Nyala Sudan Turkish Training Hospital, Nyala, Darfur, Sudan 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nyala Sudan Turkish Training Hospital, Nyala, Darfur, Sudan 3Department of Internal Medicine, Akdeniz University Hospital, Antalya, Turkey Approach to Fever in Sub-Saharan Tropical Africa Sahra Altı Tropikal Afrika’da Ateşe Yaklaşım 326 Letter to the Editor / E...

UNLABELLED Background : Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common congenital anomaly in newborns. This study was performed to determine the live birth incidence of CHD by ethnicity and sex in Gorgan, Northern Iran. METHODS In this longitudinal, hospital-based study, 18162 live births in Dezyani Hospital in Gorgan, North of Iran, were screened for CHD, from 2007 through 2009. Clinical ...

We present an approach to MT between Turkic languages and present results from an implementation of a MT system from Turkmen to Turkish. Our approach relies on ambiguous lexical and morphological transfer augmented with target side rule-based repairs and rescoring with statistical language models.