User:Leandros

Hi from Istanbul, Turkey. I was born in 1972. A nefarious Taurus.

I started to make contributions years ago, giving long breaks, I am still to be considered a newbie and a wikiogre.

Articles
Articles I have created from anew and contributed largely are below:


 * A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (new)
 * Abana, Turkey (new)
 * Afrobeat (expanded stub)
 * Ajyad Fortress (new)
 * Anatolian beyliks (new)
 * Ara (film) (new)
 * Azdavay (new)
 * Burçak Evren (new)
 * The Butcher Boy (film) rewriting it, it was just a redir.
 * Candar corps (new)
 * Candaro&#287;lu (new)
 * Chopper (movie) (new)
 * Erzurum Province (rewrite)
 * Fire clay (new)
 * Hammam (new)
 * Halit Refiğ expanded
 * Handan İpekçi (new)
 * Hümeyra (new)
 * Isabey Mosque (new)
 * Imia-Kardak crisis (new)
 * Istanbul International Film Festival (new)
 * Jelali Revolts (new)
 * Kastamonu Province (greatly expanded stub)
 * Kilic Ali Pasha Complex (greatly expanded stub)
 * List of Turkish submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (new)
 * Martyrs (film) Wonderful film, couldn't help but expand the article a bit.
 * Mersin (new)
 * Nation Party (Turkey) (new)
 * Neve Shalom --I wasn't registered then...
 * Nihat Erim (expanded stub)
 * Nuri Bilge Ceylan (new)
 * Pompeiopolis (new)
 * Repulsion (expanded stub)

To do list

 * Ajda Pekkan --
 * Camondo family--I should check it.
 * Chopper (movie)
 * Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi--my ancestor
 * Ekrem Bora
 * Fatma Girik
 * Hümeyra
 * İzzet Günay
 * Cantor Isaac Algazi
 * Istanbul Biennial, a true mess...
 * Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts: İKSV
 * Jelali Revolts
 * Joseph Nasi
 * Murathan Mungan should be cleaned up
 * Ottoman architecture
 * Ömer Kavur
 * Varlık Vergisi -- should expand too
 * Turkish Jews--I should check it.

Vacations
Nice idea, I thought...

1989 Tel Aviv-Jerusalem-Safed-Haifa-Rosh Hanikra-Ein Gedi-Dead Sea-Herzlia-Acre-Bat Yam-Eilat-Tiberias 1993 Zurich-Geneva (business + pleasure) + Café de Paris 1994 Göcek-Marmaris boat trip 1996 Rhodes 1997 Madrid-Toledo-Seville-Barcelona-Sitges 1998 Tel Aviv-Herzlia-Haifa-Eilat-Netanya-Ramat Hasharon 2000 Amsterdam-Lisbon 2001 Tel Aviv-Ra'anana 2002 Sarıgerme, Dalaman 2004 Bodrum 2006 Olympos, Rize-Ardeşen-Ayder-Samsun 2007 Ağva, Manavgat, Mersin 2008 Cannes-Paris, Brussels-Liège-Copenhagen-Malmö-Stockholm, Bozburun, Marmaris 2009 Ida Mountains-Altınoluk-Assos-Bozcaada 2010 Kaş-Saklıkent-Dalyan-Köyceğiz 2022 Giresun 2024 Milos + Paros

Boxes
Work in progress