Francisco Castanon Fernandez “Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, “in the streets” — though the term usually refers to art of an illicit nature, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, […]
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Tunc KaracaySerdar Cevher The father of the evolution theory, 19th Century British scientist, Charles Darwin sparked an all out political fight in Turkey on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Darwin hit the headlines when, Prof. Omer Cebeci, the vice-chairman of Turkey’s Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK) stopped the printing of the March issue […]
Prof. Ahmet Davutoglu, the chief foreign policy advisor of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was in Washington on the eve of US President Barack Obama’s visit to Turkey, seeing top White House officials. At a press conference in Washington Davutoglu said that there has been differences of opinion between Ankara and the previous US administration, but […]
aNiyazi Dalyanci “President Barack Obama’s visit to Turkey underlines the importance the new US administration attributes to Turkey as a ‘pivotal’ nation in the region that might undertake more crucial functions beyond and above simply acting as a mediator,” wrote Cengiz Candar, veteran foreign affairs commentator of mainstream daily Radikal. “Why is he coming? Surely, […]
Asli Tunc First a television channel then an Internet site and now a daily newspaper with exactly the same name —HABERTURK — came into our lives on March 1. The insistence on this overused title for a new brand seemed to be puzzling for many people but despite the confusion, HABERTURK (HT) daily claimed to […]
Tunc Karacay In 2010 Istanbul will become the Cultural Capital of Europe. Within this context, many organizations from Turkey applied with their projects, big and small, to get funds from the European Union. Among these, there is a group of high school students dedicated to theater. If they get support for their project from Brussels, […]
Ariana Ferentinou The visit of Mrs. Hillary Clinton to Turkey about two weeks ago lasted less than 24 hours. Yet, it was the first by a high representative of the new Obama administration and generated enormous interest. Mrs. Clinton announced the visit to Turkey by president Obama in the beginning of April and flattered the […]
Asli Tunc The presenter on a popular Turkish TV was trying to hide her feelings while reporting the crash of the Turkish Airlines plane in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago. Allegedly the Dutch emergency crew intentionally had not come to the rescue of the pilots and wounded passengers and kept them waiting for 45 […]
Good quality pork chops, bacon, sausages and other pork products are probably the most sought after delicatessen by the expats living in Istanbul. These are the products that are hard to come by in a Moslem country where consumption of pork is proscribed by religious rules. But still, there is a small and spotlessly clean […]
“You got to power, but you failed to be a proper man,” snapped Deniz Baykal, the leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) criticizing the language used by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his election campaigning. “This maganda style does not suit a prime minister,” he added. The definition of the slang word, […]
Demokratik Toplum Partisi (DTP) Eşbaşkanı Ahmet Türk, bugün Meclis’teki parti grup toplantısında 21 Şubat Anadili Günü nedeniyle, Türkçe giriş yaptığı konuşmasına Kürtçe devam etti. Canlı yayın yapan TRT 3’teki Meclis TV, konuşmanın Kürtçe bölümündeki ilk birkaç cümlenin ardından yayını kesti; ekrana çıkan spiker, “Anayasa ve Siyasi Partiler Kanunu gereğince Meclis kürsüsünde ve toplantılarında Türkçeden başka […]
“I found as I grew up that there were things I did not like which were beyond my power to put right. I developed a dislike for governments. The only solution for me, I decided, was to draw”. So began the career of Tan Oral, one of Turkey’s most consistently popular cartoonists who this week […]
News,etc Some say that Aphrodisias, in inland Aegean Anatolia is the most enchanting site in Turkey and they may be right. Ephesus is too large and well organized to be as appealing and Troy, as charming and mythical a picture as it conjures up, has not been sufficiently unearthed. Aphrodisias falls between the two. It […]
At least don’t force our children to watch that DVD, pleaded the Armenian citizens of Turkey in a letter with nearly 500 signatories to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. They were complaining about a six-part documentary called, “Sari Gelin – Behind the scenes story of the Armenian question” that was sent to primary schools by the […]
Pinar Keles Turkey sometimes appears as a country of contradictions that the students coming from four corners of the world to Turkish universities find hard to grasp.A recent example was brought to light by Istanbul Bilgi University’s History Department and Erasmus Club. Last year Bilgi’s History Department together with the Erasmus Students Club organized a […]
Kerameti kendinden menkul Abant Toplantıları’nın 18.’si bu yıl Kürtlerin denetimindeki Kuzey Irak’ın Erbil kentinde yapıldı. “Barışı ve Geleceği Birlikte Aramak” başlığıyla 2 gün süren toplantılara yine bir çok gediklisi katıldı. Oturumlar boyunca “Karşılıklı Bağımlılık”, “Medyanın İlişkilerde Rolü” ve “Ortadoğu’daki Sorunların Çözüm Yolları” gibi başlıklar ele alındı. Toplantılar sonunda okunan “Abant Platformu Sonuç Değerlendirmesi”nde karşılıklı ilişkilerin […]
Yahya Ozgur Tavlan In the hustle and bustle of daily life in Istanbul, students, office workers and many other inhabitants find themselves in search of inexpensive but healthy food as they run from one place to the other doing their daily chores. Eating outside is almost always either hurts your wallet or it is not […]
Kerameti kendinden menkul Abant Toplantıları’nın 18.’si bu yıl Kürtlerin denetimindeki Kuzey Irak’ın Erbil kentinde yapıldı. “Barışı ve Geleceği Birlikte Aramak” başlığıyla 2 gün süren toplantılara yine bir çok gediklisi katıldı. Oturumlar boyunca “Karşılıklı Bağımlılık”, “Medyanın İlişkilerde Rolü” ve “Ortadoğu’daki Sorunların Çözüm Yolları” gibi başlıklar ele alındı. Toplantılar sonunda okunan “Abant Platformu Sonuç Değerlendirmesi”nde karşılıklı ilişkilerin […]
Hilal Özdemir “I your faithful servant, understand that it has been your intention to erect a bridge from Galata to Stambul…” With these words Leonardo Da Vinci described in a letter to Sultan Bayezid II in 1502 how he would build the greatest single span bridge of the ancient world. Although some sources say that […]
About 3 million candidates will enter the race at the local elections scheduled for March 29 in Turkey for the post of mayor in 2,123 municipalities, village headsman (muhtar) in some 36,000 villages and membership in the municipal and local councils. Out of the 3 million candidates some 500,000 will win the race. Local elections […]