A holiday jet with 200 passengers on board lost more than a ton of fuel from an engine leak as it landed at Gatwick, a report revealed today. Passengers were evacuated from the Thomas Cook Boeing 757 down emergency slides after it touched down on it’s way back from Bodrum, Turkey. The airfield had to be [...]
Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted man, is dead, US president Barack Obama has announced. The man who was the inspiration for countless acts of terror from the September 11 outrage to the July 7 London bombings was killed in a US operation in Pakistan. He was holed up not in the mountains of Afghanistan [...]
On April 14 I was a passenger on the first Turkish Airlines (THY) flight to Erbil, Iraq. Following a visit by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on March 29, Turkey’s national flag carrier, THY, flew its first flight to Arbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, on Thursday, April 14. The start [...]
By 2023 Canal Istanbul could join the Panama and Suez canals on the list of the world’s most significant man-made seaways. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan today unveiled a plan to bypass the Bosphorous Strait with a 45 – 50 km waterway. Linking the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara, it would turn the [...]
AB Property Marketing Ltd, the property industry’s leading PR agency, has been appointed representative of the multi award-winning international property and alternative investment agency, Property Frontiers Ltd. Founded in 2004 by Co-Directors Ray Withers and David Cox, Property Frontiers aims to be the private bank of the overseas asset class and has appointed the team [...]
Turkey expects to draw more Russian tourists this year by as high as 20 percent with the onset of a new visa-free travel regime between the two countries, said Cumhur Güven Ta?ba??, director of promotion at the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The visa liberalization agreement, which was signed during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s [...]
Italy’s Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli) won taken the first sprint at the Presidential Tour of Turkey, beating Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervelo) and several other big-name sprinters. “It’s beautiful to win ahead of a great champion like Farrar who has already won so many races”, Guardini said. “A bit like at the Tour of Qatar, this is an [...]
Climbers are still occupying the huge oil rig which departed from Turkey early this morning bound for a dangerous deep drilling operation in the off the coast of Greenland in the Arctic. Early this morning the activists intercepted the rig, scaled the vessel and unfurled a banner demanding “Stop Arctic destruction.” They remain on board [...]
British people has been forced to have a bank holiday and celebrate Royal Wedding and Prince William is set to marry, not a princess, but the girl he met at university regarding to many British Media reports. Is this a decisive break with royal tradition, the symbol of a new classless Britain? Not at all, [...]
Investors looking to purchasing property in Europe this year could be well advised to choose Istanbul, the number 1 city for new property acquisitions and developments according to the latest Emerging Trends in Real Estate Report Europe from PwC and the Urban Land Institute. For the second year running, Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city and home [...]
Israel asked Turkey to stop international peace activists who plan to send aid to the besieged Gaza on the first anniversary of deadly Israeli raid on a Turkish ship. The move comes after the organizers of the new flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza have asked for protection against what they say are threats from Israel. [...]
Russia and Turkey scrapped the visa regime on Saturday. In line with an agreement the two countries signed in Ankara last May, which enters into force on April 16, no visas are from now on required for trips that last under 30 days. Earlier, Russians traveling to Turkey, a cheap and popular venue for Russian tourists, [...]
As you may aware of CAFCASS from Bernandos report from headlines on many newspaper in the UK because British family justice system is a mess and everyday goes to more mess by CAFCASS because CAFCASS process takes alist 12 weeks and even more in many cases and County Court allows in many cases to CAFCASS [...]
Los Angeles / Organizers of the DISCOP markets today announced that 511 delegates, representing 283 companies from 39 countries, took part in the inaugural edition of DISCOP Istanbul which wrapped this week. The first DISCOP Istanbul welcomed 142 companies who attended the 3-day market to buy television content, with 32% coming from the Greater Middle [...]
Ankara has temporarily suspended talks with Japan on building a nuclear plant in northern Turkey after Japan’s nuclear disaster, Turkish Energy Minister, Taner Yildiz, said on Sunday. “The negotiations were of course affected by the tsunami”, the Anatolia news agency quoted Yildiz as saying, in reference to the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s northeast [...]
Regarding to offical President Asif Ali Zardari will arrive in Turkish capital Ankara today (Monday) on a four-day official visit to give fresh impetus to the growing ties with Turkey and discuss infrastructure, communication and energy projects with top Turkish leadership. President Zardari will hold talks with Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep [...]
