The real motivation behind United States Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Turkey was not to discuss the level of cooperation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). It is true that Biden did speak in detail with Turkish President Abdullah Gül and Parliamentary Speaker Cemil Çiçek about levels of cooperation surrounding the issue with [...]
The USA emphasized Turkey’s growing role in the Middle East and beyond, in remarks at the opening dinner of the 2011 Annual Conference on U.S.-Turkey Relations. The event was hosted by the American-Turkish Council, and highlighted Turkey’s growing economic leadership. American government officials pointed out when talking to Turks – from students to entrepreneurs to [...]
The top of the “Weary Heracles” or Hercules smuggled to the US years ago has come back home on board the plane of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. The efforts and negotiations of long years to bring back to Turkey the smuggled statue which was seen at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts five years [...]
Who is Anwar Al Awlaki? Dual citizen Anwar Al Azlaki killed and in a significant new blow to al-Qaeda, a US airstrike in Yemen has killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American militant cleric who became a prominent figure in the terror network’s most dangerous branch, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits for [...]
Countries and people are different; that is what makes them exciting, but if you are investing abroad you need to be fully aware of the pitfalls and the benefits before you start?, says Richard Way, Editor of Overseas Guides Company (OGC) www.overseasguidescompany.com ?Ignorance is the greatest factor for things going wrong when purchasing a property [...]
Sleep deprivation. Starvation. Forced nudity. Prolonged stress position. Water dousing. Slamming on a wall. Enhanced interrogation techniques. Secret detention facililties. These may all sound like straight out of a Robert Ludlum spy novel, but no, these are practices that have been adopted by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after 9/11 in dealing with suspected [...]
The problems in Greece are not going away anytime soon, and Ireland and Portugal are waiting in the wings to become the focus of another round of debt relief packages from the Euro Zone. There have been recent rumblings that Italy, the Euro’s third largest economy, might also be in trouble – but those fears [...]
Libya leader Gaddafi has been warned by Barrack Obama today and Moammar Gadhafi faces a stark choice: Halt attacks immediately or face punishing air strikes. But U.S. President Barack Obama also gave the Libyan despot an out, promising the gathering warplanes won’t bomb him into regime change if he quits attacking rebel-held cities. The unpredictable [...]
Regarding to British media the biggest ever global operation against organised paedophilia has announced the results of a three year sting on child abuse. 184 child abusers have been arrested as part of Operation Rescue, a global sting to crack down on online paedophilia. The operation targeted 670 offenders in an investigation spanning countries including [...]
Los Angeles / Paris, 27 September 2010 – Organizers of the inaugural edition of DISCOP ISTANBUL today announced that more than 100 companies have already confirmed their attendance at the event, which takes place from 14 to 16 March, 2011. Centered on the television content business in the broader Middle East, Central Asia and North [...]
Most people wouldn’t dream of buying a home in the UK without seeing it; walking through each room, inspecting the quality of the build, researching the local area and its amenities. But what happens if the home you want to buy is located hundreds if not thousands of miles away, overseas? The solution? An inspection [...]
The British have had a notorious love affair with holidaying on the Spanish Costa since the seventies. And as more and more flocked, the diversity of holidays available expanded. Spain now offers high end luxury holidays, other end of the scale bargain breaks and pretty much everything in between. But is the British love affair [...]
