1 Prof. Dr. Georgi M. Dimirovski (1 & 2) Active Member of the European Academy of Sciences & Arts, Salzburg, F.R. Austria Foreign Member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences, Belgrade, Rep. of Serbia Research Professor of Automation & Systems Engineering (1)- SS Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Rep. of Macedonia And Professor of Control and Information Sciences (2)- Dogus University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Rep. of. Turkey WELMO-2017_World Electrical Mobility Conference_ Izmir, TR Macedonia-Turkey Reflections: Between Geopolitical History, Great Ataturk, and Ordinary People
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Prof. Dr. Georgi M. Dimirovski (1 & 2)
Active Member of the European Academy of Sciences & Arts, Salzburg, F.R. Austria Foreign Member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences, Belgrade, Rep. of Serbia
Research Professor of Automation & Systems Engineering(1)- SS Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Rep. of Macedonia
AndProfessor of Control and Information Sciences
(2)- Dogus University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Rep. of. Turkey
Istanbul at the beginning Skopje (Uskub) at the beginning of the 20th century, before the the 20th century before the First First Balkan War Balkan War
2. CONTEMPORARY REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA IN THEEYES OF TURKISH JOURNALISTS
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Skopje’s Stonebridge of Murad I From “Kale of Skopje” Back-(XIV century) nowadays only -view on Mustafa-Pasha Mosque,pedestrian and in the city center opposite to the Stonebridge
2. CONTEMPORARY REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA INTHE EYES OF TURKISH JOURNALISTS
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WELMO-2017_WorldConference on Electrical Mobility _ Izmir, TR
Centuries old but intact Church of St. Klement in Ohird (Left) andthe newly built one also in Byzantine style Church of St. Klement inPlaoshnik (right) just beneath of the Tzar Samuel’s Fortress City onthe Ohridean Hill, the capital of short lived Second MacedonianEmpire at permanent war with Byzantium Empire (X-XI century)
2. CONTEMPORARY REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA INTHE EYES OF TURKISH JOURNALISTS
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Museum - restored houses of Ataturk’s father and grandfather, the ancestor ofwhom were Yuruks from Konya and Aydin who had settled down in the village“Kodjadjik”, contemporary Municipality “Centar Zhupa” , in the XV cntury.
3. HONOURING THE GREAT ATATURK IN MACEDONIA: MACEDONIA AND TURKEY
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Historical Military College in Bitola (Manstir) that was attendedby Mustafa Kemal and where he demonstrated not onlyoutstanding military skills but also outstanding results in Physicsand Mathematics as well as knowledge of History and Languages.
A famous Ottoman Macedonian Turk, and a not famous OttomanMacedonian who served well and had fallen in famous Battle ofEdirne defending the Ottoman Empire
Family Koshevaliski in Shtip (Ishtip) a photo in spring 1911, at that time my wife’s father has not been born as yet; he was born after Balkan Wars and given the name Saltir in memory of his late brother Lt. Saltir Bey who had fallen at the Battle of Edirne.
Two soldiers of the same Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA-Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija): the first one during rather difficultyears of late 1940s and early 1950s, the second one during the late1960s. Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen, among them who maybe a Macedonian and who is a Turk, please?
5. A FEW STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY MACEDONIANS AND TURKS
5. A FEW STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY MACEDONIANS AND TURKS
Ohridean Lake Region - UNESCO World Heritage of Culture and Natural Environment in my little home country Republic of Macedonia
City of Ohrid – The city that has been referred to as Jerusalem of the Balkans during the ages of Ottoman Empire; a part of Ohridean Lake is also seen.
5. A FEW STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY MACEDONIANS AND TURKS
The fortress on top of the hill is the remaining of the fortresscapital city of the short-lived Second Macedonian Empire (969-1018) founded by Tzar Samuel (976-1014), whose crown wasblessed by Pope Gregory V, and who was at permanent warwith Byzantium Empire (which claimed all of the AncientMacedonian Empire as before the Roman Empire did too).
More impressive to notice are the following facts of ourcultural history. St. Clement Ohridski, Archbishop andfather-creator of Cyrilic Alphabet, on the grounds of
Hellenic alphabet, as well as of Old-Slavonic language, hadfounded in the 9th Century A.D. the Ohridean School of Letters andTheology in Plaoshnik Church, right beneath the fortress city. 25
5. A FEW STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY MACEDONIANS AND TURKS
This was a kind of high school at the time when in Europe no university or a school alike existed outside Roma in the Vatican. Under his guidance more than 3000 pupils have been educated in Cyrilic Alphabet and Old Slavonic, based on a Macedonian dialect around Sallonica, and then send to preach Jesus Christ’s teaching to all Slavic nations of that time. Contemporary Russian alphabet and language are the closest ones to that of St. Clemant’s. Contemporary Russian alphabet and language are the closest ones to that of St. Clemant’s.
On the opposite South-Eastern end of Ohridean Lake, there stands up to nowadays Monastery of St. Naum Ohridski, who
Lived and worked there, who was the first biologist and medic 26
5. A FEW STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY MACEDONIANS AND TURKS
to conduct both physician’s practice and research studies over thewhole of the Balkans. Thus the corner of Macedonia in the SouthWest, bordering Albania, indeed had been a cradle of culture andknowledge hence Byzantium Empire invaded it over and overagain in order to hold it within its frontiers until it finallycollapsed to Ottoman’s Conquest in the year 1371, within OttomanEmpire .