| Merhaba too much! Nasılsınız? Ben Seda. Hoşgeldiniz.Hi everybody I am Seda. Welcome to TurkishClass101.com |
| Okay, we've been talking about months for a while. I don't remember which month we started but |
| we've been talking about months and we finished the summer months and we started the autumn |
| months. We talk about Eylül meaning September and now it's time for to talk about October. |
| October one of my favorite months. First of all let's learn the word October. October is |
| Ekim. Ekim. Ekim. Ekim. It's a beautiful word to my ears. But we have a story behind this. |
| This month it was not always called Ekim. This month was Teşrini Evvel. |
| Well you are happy that it's changed right? It was longer. Anyway in 1945 a new law was adopted |
| and the name Teşrini Evvel was changed to Ekim. Ekim means planting and sowing. Why of all the |
| months in a year this month is called to be the month of planting, sowing? It is because in this |
| month wheat, the plant that we make the bread, which is a very important food source, is planted. |
| Okay, that's the time. That's how important wheat season was to people. So they changed the name |
| and Ekim as a word is also used as a female name, a proper name like Seda. So keep that in mind and |
| so what's special about Ekim? The universities start their education during this month and other |
| than that there's not much going on socially and but we have a very important, maybe the most |
| important national holiday in this month. It is 29 Ekim Cumhuriyet Bayramı. It is the Republic Day. |
| Republic Day is a national holiday celebrated every year on 29th of October |
| in the memory of Turkish Grand National Assemblies Declaration of Republic Administration on |
| 29th of October 1923. So it's going to be a little history lesson here so get ready. |
| It was starting to be celebrated as a national holiday with a law enacted in 1925 |
| and as you may know these lands that we live were Ottoman Empire before, the foundation of Turkish |
| Republic and the Ottoman Empire was ruled by an absolute monarchy, the Sultan until 1876 and by |
| the constitutional monarchy between 1876 and 1878 and 1908 and 1918. So the national struggle |
| led by Mustafa Kemal Paşa against the invaders in Anatolia which was occupied after the defeat |
| in the First World War resulted in the victory of the national Turkish national forces in 1923 |
| and in this process the representatives of the people gathered in Ankara, today our capital city |
| back then it was Istanbul and after Republic it's Ankara on April 23, 1920 under the name of |
| Grand National Assembly, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi declared that the sovereignty belongs |
| to the Turkish nation not the Sultan and this with this decision taken on November 1st 1922 |
| had abolished the reign no more Sultan by our Sultan thank God. Anyway the country was governed |
| by a parliamentary government and after some time Mustafa Kemal Paşa along you know with other |
| people of course prepared a law amendment draft together they do it together with Ismet İnönü and |
| other you know representatives to make the government a official republic and present it to the |
| parliament on October 29th of 1923 and with the adoption of this amendment |
| made in the law the republic was proclaimed by the Turkish Grand National Assembly, Türkiye |
| Büyük Millet Meclisi and after that these lands become you know parliamentary democracy and the |
| republic so this day no matter what happens you know is the most important national holiday so far |
| so okay I got you know a high level what else is there any literature reference to this month |
| yeah not much there are two poems that I could find one is from Turgut Uyar a poet I will read |
| that to you but I will not translate try to translate this try to understand the poetry |
| because you know when you translate the poetry it sounds really really weird |
| tavrım bir şeyi bulup coşmaktır |
| sonbahar geldi hüzün |
| kış geldi kara hüzün |
| ey en akıllı kişisi dünyanın |
| bazen yaz ortasında gündüzün |
| sevgim acıyor |
| kimi sevsem |
| kim beni sevse |
| eylül toparlandı gitti işte |
| ekim falan da gider bu gidişle |
| tarihe gömülen koca koca atlar |
| tarihe gömülür o kadar |
| so this was a poetry from the poet Turgut Uyar the words are not that complicated you can use google |
| translation and check the meaning and try to get into the sounds of the poetry okay |
| and we have one more from the poet Edip Cansever and here it goes like this |
| neyse ki biz ekimdik. |
| bitmezdik resimlerde. |
| sırasız, dengesiz, yapraksız öyle. |
| hem vardık, hem de yoktuk. |
| biz sahi nereliydik...? |
| so that's it and nothing I'm thinking but there is nothing else special about this month so |
| let's look at the weather and how is the weather in Ekim it's getting cooler and cooler towards |
| the end of the month and but since Turkey has different regions and the weather changes a lot |
| between those regions it can be summer in some place and winter in another place so |
| it totally depends on the region so let's look at the regions a little closer I will just |
| come back later we'll just put the you know numbers on the screen so you don't see my face |
| while I say that how hot or how cold is it anyway I will see you in a bit |
| Marmara region the average temperature of the region in October is 15.4 it was 15 in October |
| October 2021 the lowest temperature is 1.6 in Balıkesir the highest temperature is 28.7 |
| in Sakarya Aegean region the average temperature is 16.8 it was 16.6 in October |
| 2021 the lowest temperature is minus 1.4 in Kütahya and the highest temperature is 32.2 |
| in Marmaris Mediterranean region the average temperature is 18.9 it was 19.6 in October |
| 2021 the lowest temperature is minus 3.3 in Göksun the highest temperature is 35.8 in Kozan |
| Central Anatolia region the long-term average is 12.1 it was 11.6 in October 2021 the lowest |
| temperature in the region is minus 10.1 in Kangal the highest is 29.7 in Karaman |
| Black Sea region the long-term average temperature is 14 it was 13.4 in October 2021 the lowest in |
| the region is minus 6 in Bayburt and the highest is 32 in Bartın Eastern Anatolia region the long-term |
| average is to 11.6 it was 11.6 again in October 2021 and the lowest is minus 10.7 in Erzurum the |
| highest is 30.6 in Ergani and the last one South Eastern Anatolia region the long-term average |
| is 19 it was 19.9 in October 2021 the lowest is 3.4 in Batman and the highest is 38.3 in Cizre |
| welcome back okay as I said before if you want to learn the detailed weather information |
| before your travels please do check out the forecast generally five-day forecasts of our |
| government is really good so you should check the government side I will again put it here |
| it's www.mgm.gov.tr and this was the weather and it's all about all I can say about this month Ekim |
| and I think if you're gonna visit Turkey if you're not gonna you know swim or anything it's |
| especially for Istanbul it's a very good month to visit Istanbul because it's not that hot that |
| you are gonna feel like you are gonna die you know or it's not like a lot you know rainy cold |
| and it's you know it's a perfect for me it's a perfect month to visit Istanbul and stroll |
| around Istanbul so keep that in mind and I hope you enjoyed this video and if you want to learn |
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