PIN stands for Personal Identification Number. You must have a 4-digit PIN to use your EBT card. Call the Customer Service number printed on your EBT card to select a PIN if the EBT card you received is your first EBT card or your old PIN no longer works with your replacement card.
First, the Seljuk and then the Ottoman Turkish Empires came to power, exerting influence over much of the eastern Mediterranean world, and bringing Islam to southeast Europe. After the Ottoman Empire fell in 1918, Turkey transformed itself into the vibrant, modernizing, secular state it is today.
(September 2011) In politics, a mandate is the authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative. The concept of a government having a legitimate mandate to govern via the fair winning of a democratic election is a central idea of representative democracy. New governments who attempt to introduce policies that they did not make public during an election campaign are said not to have a legitimate mandate to implement such policies.