INCE TURKS’ initial identification of chronic lymphoS cytic leukemia (CLL), Minot and Isaacs” description of its clinical features in 1924, and Dameshek‘? hypothesis in 1967, considerable progress in the understanding of CLL has been achieved, especially during the last two decades. The purpose of the present work is to review the major advances in the biology and clinical research of CLL and t...

Illegal affairs and dark relationships can always be encountered in any place. International links officials also seen these illegal affairs. When the communists came to power Bulgaria 1944, there were a significant minority of Turks. Refugee Turks arrived following years some from Turkey began participate Bulgaria. The cooperation underground worlds Turkey, which are at opposite ends cold war ...

OBJECTIVES The high incidence of malignant mesothelioma in some villages of Cappadocia (Turkey) is due to environmental exposure to erionite fibres. The aim was to evaluate the fibre burden in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) from inhabitants of an erionite village and compare it with Turkish subjects with or without environmental exposure to tremolite asbestos. METHODS Ferruginous bodies ...

Turkic languages are an integral part of the linguistic landscape of present-day Caucasia, both north and south of the mountain ridge. Different from the so-called “autochthonous” Caucasian languages, i.e. the languages pertaining to the Kartvelian (South-Caucasian), (North-)West Caucasian and (North-East) Caucasian families, both the southern (Oghuz) and the northern (Qypchaq) idioms of Turkic...

BACKGROUND Previous studies from the US and UK suggest that neighbourhood ethnic composition is associated with health, positive or negative, depending on the health outcome and ethnic group. We examined the association between neighbourhood ethnic composition and self-reported health in these groups in Amsterdam, and we aimed to explore whether there is spatial variation in this association. ...