Istanbul is the jewel of Turkey, the land of exceptional cultural and natural treasures, country of contrasts and contradictions, history filled with epic episodes. If you already had a chance to visit this beautiful city, probably you’re waiting for the day to go back. If you still haven’t, treat yourself with a trip to this [...]
Every country is known to have a special drink that they offer throughout the day. In Turkish culture is the Black Tea. It is produced on the Eastern side of Black sea coast, Rize province, which has a mild climate with high precipitation and fertile soil. Turkish tea is one of the most important part [...]
Made two years before the similarly themed Avatar, this original, vividly designed sci-fi animation makes an astute commentary on current issues. And this depth of feeling more than makes up for the relatively slack pace and thin characters. When a giant ship of humans arrives at an isolated planet, they don’t really understand that the [...]
British government sources dismiss as “nonsense” any advance foreknowledge about a Mossad plan to assassinate a top official of Hamas in Dubai last month. A member of the Israeli intelligence service claimed earlier that MI6 and the British Foreign Office were tipped off that Mossad agents were going to carry out an ‘overseas operation’ using [...]
The dust has settled in Turkey after the storm of rumours about who would represent the country at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. It has been announced that MaNga will represent Turkey, the band and the national broadcaster (TRT) were in negotiations for some time. TRT had opened a poll to receive fans’ opinions about [...]
Ancient civilisations, powerful empires and charismatic, if immodest, rulers. In this guest post Margaret Doherty explores Eastern Turkey’s magnificent and varied history through its archaeological sites with archaeological travel experts Andante Travels. In 1945 while tracing ancient routes through the Taurus mountains in search of Hittite sites a team of archaeologists reached a small town [...]
Greek debt is endangering the euro as a viable currency. EU officials are in a dilemma: step in with financial backing to hold up Greece in order to protect the euro as a whole or let Greece go and thus provoke an immediate crisis. Whatever they decide one thing is clear: they are going to [...]
In the marshy basin between Selçuk and Ephesus in Turkey are the pitiful remains of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Temple of Artemis (or Artemision). The Ephesian Artemis Artemis was the Greek goddess, the virginal huntress and twin of Apollo, who replaced the Titan Selene as Goddess of the Moon. [...]
Turkey’s president said on Thursday urgent judicial reform was needed, as tensions rose between the government and militant secularists embedded in the judiciary. President’s warning also comes amid the speculations that Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Appeals may launch a new closure case against the ruling AK party over PKK surrenders. Turkish President [...]
The European Union is in danger of breaking its promise that Turkey will eventually be granted membership, an influential group has warned. The Independent Commission on Turkey accuses some European leaders of trying to derail Turkey’s membership bid. Behind the carefully balanced language of diplomacy is a hard hitting report, a BBC correspondent says. It [...]
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the newly constructed Muhsin Ertugrul Theater in istanbul over the weekend, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an complained about the resistance of some circles against his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government’s efforts for the well-being of the country. He recalled how some circles reacted to the ?stanbul Municipality’s [...]
Most people comes Alanya and never get out of hotel. Just live in hotel until the end of their holiday. They use beach and pool of hotel, restaurants of hotel, shopping centers of hotel, disco and animation shows of hotel. In my opinion they are limited with hotel because they dont know Alanya. However Alanya [...]
It’s hard to know when one nation’s property market has fallen out of favour these days as the global financial crisis envelopes country after country and apparently leaves no nation’s economy untarnished. So is property in Turkey still popular or has the market boomed and gone bust? This question is being asked by Brits, Russians, [...]
So what exactly is Google Buzz? Used on a PC or mobile, Buzz reminds us of an RSS combined with all of your social networking—all within the existing Gmail and Google.com infrastructure. Buzz’s five key features include: • Automatic friends lists (friends are added automatically who you have emailed on Gmail) • “Rich fast sharing” [...]
As you’ve no doubt heard, Google signaled its move into the social media arena in a big way at 10am PST today by announcing the launch of Google Buzz, a Gmail-integrated social networking utility which will roll out over the next few days. So: what is Google Buzz, exactly? Below, ten things that define what [...]
Hi Folks, pardon the dust as we renovate our site, we will try to keep the dust to a minimum while reconstruction continues. Have a look around -and keep in mind we are just getting use to it ourselves. We do promise to get back to the news and views just as soon as possible. [...]
