DAILY NEWS

HARUN YILDIZ

Introduction

I. Yaşar Kemal

II. Loudly Listening

III. Bride Market

1. Yaşar Kemal Died..

I. Yaşar Kemal

Yaşar Kemal had respiratory problems, lung infection and heart arrhythmia.

Then, he had been hospitalized since Jan. 14. following died at hospital in Istanbul.

He was the country's first candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

I. Yaşar Kemal

• Having both Turkish and Kurdish origins, Kemal was born in 1923 in the southern province of Osmaniye.

• Losing his right eye due to a knife accident, the writer had a difficult childhood.

• Kemal first worked as letter-writer for illiterate citizens in small villages, then became a journalist and finally a novelist.

I. Yaşar Kemal

• Kemal was awarded with many international and national prizes.

• He wrote more than 20 novels and nearly 10 experimental works, besides short stories.

• ‘İnce Memed’ brought international acclaim. It was published in 40 languages. “İnce Memed” was based on the lives and sufferings of Anatolian people.

I. Yaşar Kemal

• Kemal knew hardship, too. He wrote Memed while enduring incredible hardship.

• "It was one of the coldest Istanbul winters ever," he said. "I had no money to put wood in the stove."

His final words..

• In 2012, after the completion of his final novel, Kemal said "All my life, my only dream was to write a little bit more, a little bit better"

Sorry for our loss Yaşar KEMAL

II. Loudly Listening

• To protect their hearing, people should listen to music for no more than one hour a day, the World Health Organization suggests.

• 1.1 billion teenagers and young adults are at risk.  Because they are listening to "too much, too loudly" , their hearing can be damaged permanently.

The WHO's safe listening times are:

• 85 dB - the level of noise inside a car - eight hours

• 90 dB – grass cutter- two hours 30 minutes• 95 dB - an average motorcycle - 47 minutes• 100 dB - car horn or underground train - 15 minutes• 105 dB - mp3 player at maximum volume - four minutes

• 115 dB - loud rock concert - 28 seconds• 120 dB - vuvuzela or sirens - nine seconds

III. Bride Market

• Teenage girls are matched up with future husbands at the 'bride market’.

• The open-air market is held in Bulgaria, four times a year.

• Poor Roma families use it to arrange financially beneficial marriages.

• The event's reputation as a 'bride market' dates back generations.

Thanks for interest..

SOURCES

• http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31674707• http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/28/yasar-kemal-celebrated-turkish-novelist-dies-at-91• http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31661789 • http://

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2973659/Inside-Roma-bride-market-Teenage-girls-matched-future-husbands-open-air-exchange-Bulgaria.html#ixzz3TAeaX1Lh

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLxX61W57EA (for video)• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9xLkrfHDkI (for video)• www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/45289723