| Friday, January 27, 2012 |
| Turkey Travel: Seascapes And History Of Istanbul And The Aegean Coast |
Turkey Travel: Seascapes And History Of Istanbul And The Aegean Coast
Turkeys Aegean
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO 01/27/12 02:18 PM ET AP
ISTANBUL -- The sea of Marmara shimmered to my right, a pod of dolphins played improbably in the ferry-and tankers-choked Bosporus strait, and minarets pierced my jet-lag fog on my first Istanbul evening.
More:Turkey Travel: Seascapes And History Of Istanbul And The Aegean Coast
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| Olympics Features: Ugur Erdener thinks the tourism and the economy are right this time for Istanbul 2020 |
Ugur Erdener thinks the tourism and the economy are right this time for Istanbul 2020
LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications
LAUSANNE/INNSBRUCK: SportsFeatures.com had the opportunity to sit down with Professor Ugur Erdener to get some fresh details on the 2020 Istanbul bid and the growing tourism market in Turkey.
More:Olympics Features: Ugur Erdener thinks the tourism and the economy are right this time for Istanbul 2020
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| Tiger Turkey at the crossroads |
Tiger Turkey at the crossroads
The country is one of success stories of the last decade, but is its increasingly autocratic government slowly threatening progress?
Istanbul
In the tea houses of Istanbul the mood is generally optimistic as customers listen to the news of the European economic crisis. "Turkey doesn't need Europe," says one tea drinker.
"Look at Greece – it was inside the European Union and they're going bankrupt." Osman, a middle-aged estate agent, adds that "when you compare Turkey today with Turkey 20 years ago, everything has got better."
More:Tiger Turkey at the crossroads - Europe - World - The Independent
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| Is Turkey the new home for Hamas? |
Is Turkey the new home for Hamas?
By Allen McDuffee
Hamas is developing new relations with Turkey, according to new reports coming from the region. The arrangement includes opening an official Hamas office in Turkey in a matter of weeks and a reported Turkish pledge of $300 million to help re-build Hamas-controlled Gaza.
More:Is Turkey the new home for Hamas? - Think Tanked - The Washington Post
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| Study shows one in five Turks reside in Istanbul |
Study shows one in five Turks reside in Istanbul
ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News
Residents in Istanbul province make up 18.2 percent of Turkey’s entire population, or more than 13.5 million people, according to a recent annual demographic survey conducted by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK).
More:LOCAL - Study shows one in five Turks reside in Istanbul
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| Cabinet backs the burka ban |
Cabinet backs the burka ban
Friday 27 January 2012
The cabinet on Friday voted to ban burkas and other face-covering garments from public places. Once the legislation has passed through parliament, the Netherlands will become the third country in Europe to ban the Islamic garment, after France and Belgium.
More:DutchNews.nl - Cabinet backs the burka ban
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| Turkey Marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day | Europe | English |
Turkey Marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Dorian Jones | Istanbul
Turkey marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by becoming the first predominantly Muslim country to screen the iconic holocaust documentary, Shoah.
More:Turkey Marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day | Europe | English
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| Turkey's Erdogan strikes gold with Arab Spring [50180272] | African news, analysis and opinion – The Africa Report.com |
Turkey's Erdogan strikes gold with Arab Spring
By Nicholas Norbrook and
Marshall Van Valen
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's support for Muslim unity is not purely mechanicalRecep Tayyip Erdogan has rock-star status in the Arab world for standing up to Israel both in word and deed. He is at the head of one of the world's fastest-growing economies, with a China-beating 10.2 per cent of economic growth, and is the architect of a brand of business-savvy moderate Islam that hopes to export its 'model' overseas along with its cars, clothes and foodstuffs.
More:Turkey's Erdogan strikes gold with Arab Spring [50180272] | African news, analysis and opinion – The Africa Report.com
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| Istanbul and the Aegean coast offer seascapes, antiquities and most of all, a warm welcome - The Washington Post |
Istanbul and the Aegean coast offer seascapes, antiquities and most of all, a warm welcome
By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, January 27, 2:21 PM
ISTANBUL — The sea of Marmara shimmered to my right, a pod of dolphins played improbably in the ferry-and tankers-choked Bosporus strait, and minarets pierced my jet-lag fog on my first Istanbul evening.
More:Istanbul and the Aegean coast offer seascapes, antiquities and most of all, a warm welcome - The Washington Post
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| Beware of Turkish Delight |
Beware of Turkish Delight
By ANDREW PEAPLE
Talking Turkey is becoming a common market activity.
The Turkish lira has risen 5.2% against the dollar so far this year, putting it among the world's best-performing currencies. Turkey's government bonds rallied this week as investors' risk tolerance recovered. Yet Turkey is attracting prominent skeptics—among them, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and Goldman Sachs—who see its wide current account deficit as a risk that bring its economy to a hard landing. That may prove too gloomy a forecast. But Turkey's policy makers would be wise not to declare victory too soon.
More:HEARD ON THE STREET: Beware of Turkish Delight - WSJ.com
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| Turkish diplomats saved Jews during Holocaust | The Canadian Jewish News |
Turkish diplomats saved Jews during Holocaust
Sheldon Kirshner, Staff Reporter, Friday, January 27, 2012
Tags: Canada Feb 2 print issue
Gunes Celikcan
TORONTO — A little-known but uplifting and inspiring chapter in the annals of the Holocaust was unveiled last week with the screening of a film about the rescue of Jews in Nazi-occupied France by Turkish diplomats.
More:Turkish diplomats saved Jews during Holocaust | The Canadian Jewish News
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| Turkish journalists seek release in conspiracy case | World | Reuters |
Turkish journalists seek release in conspiracy case
Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:33pm GMT
By Evrim Ergin
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish journalists in a high-profile case asked a court on Friday to release them from custody while they stand trial on charges of plotting to overthrow the government.
More:Turkish journalists seek release in conspiracy case | World | Reuters
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| From Military Tutelage to Civilian Authoritarianism? - Qantara.de |
From Military Tutelage to Civilian Authoritarianism?
Opinion in Turkey remains divided over whether the recent remand of a former chief of General Staff on charges of coup plotting represents a further blow against an older, less democratic order, or a move by the incumbent government to further consolidate its power. Fatma Kayabal investigates
More:From Military Tutelage to Civilian Authoritarianism? - Qantara.de
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| Turkey's Nurol says it bought Hurriyet Medya Towers | Reuters |
Turkey's Nurol says it bought Hurriyet Medya Towers
ISTANBUL | Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:42am EST
Jan 27 (Reuters) - Turkish real estate investment trust Nurol Gayrimenul said on Friday it bought from media company Hurriyet Gazetecilik its Medya Towers property in Instanbul for a total purchase price of $127.5 million.
More:Turkey's Nurol says it bought Hurriyet Medya Towers | Reuters
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| Turkey and Its Neighbours |
Turkey and Its Neighbours
Yusuf Fernandez
The relations between Turkey and its neighbours have entered an uncertain future. When Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party, the AKP, came to power in Turkey, they promoted a “zero problems with the neighbours” policy. However, Turkey´s tensions with these countries appear to have effectively nullified that doctrine.
More:Turkey and Its Neighbours
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| Nothing chicken about Turkey |
Nothing chicken about Turkey
January 27 2012 at 04:00pm
By Liz Clarke
When the idea of spending three days in Istanbul was first suggested, my immediate image was of streets overflowing with people, unwashed peddlers fighting to sell you anything from hashish to brass candlesticks and food that you won’t be able to recognise, pronounce, let alone enjoy.
More:Nothing chicken about Turkey - IOL Travel Europe | IOL.co.za
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| Human rights: Turkey has highest conviction rate in EU court - Turkey - ANSAMed.it |
Human rights: Turkey has highest conviction rate in EU court
27 January, 13:51
(ANSAmed) - ANKARA, JANUARY 27 - Turkey was the county with the highest number of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) convictions in 2011, the third year in a row as Today's Zaman reports. ECHR head Nicolas Bratza said at a press briefing on Thursday that Turkey topped the list of countries that violated the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) with 159 cases.
More:Human rights: Turkey has highest conviction rate in EU court - Turkey - ANSAMed.it
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| Asil Nadir 'needed 135 tonnes of cash to balance books' - Telegraph |
Asil Nadir 'needed 135 tonnes of cash to balance books'
The amount of cash Asil Nadir claimed had been paid into the accounts of his failing empire would have required a stack of banknotes 300 times the height of Nelson's Column, the Old Bailey heard.
More:Asil Nadir 'needed 135 tonnes of cash to balance books' - Telegraph
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| US envoy to Turkey: Face ghosts of the past |
US envoy to Turkey: Face ghosts of the past
ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News
Hinting at France’s recent genocide bill, the US envoy to Ankara tells Turkey that it must confront its past if it wants to rank among the top economies by 2023
Serkan Demirtaş Serkan Demirtaş serkan.demirtas@tdn.com.tr
Turkey must deal with the ghosts of the past if it wants to become one of the world’s top 10 economies by 2023, Washington’s envoy to Ankara has said following controversy over a French bill to criminalize denials of Armenian genocide claims.
More:POLITICS - US envoy to Turkey: Face ghosts of the past
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| Turkish Lira Appreciates Third Day in Istanbul Trade - Bloomberg |
Turkish Lira Appreciates Third Day in Istanbul Trade
By Selcuk Gokoluk - Jan 27, 2012 2:43 AM ET
The lira advanced for a third day and headed for its strongest level since mid-November in Istanbul trade.
More:Turkish Lira Appreciates Third Day in Istanbul Trade - Bloomberg
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| Turkey 2011 Population Grew 1 Million to 74.7 Million - Bloomberg |
Turkey 2011 Population Grew 1 Million to 74.7 Million
By Steve Bryant - Jan 27, 2012 4:06 AM ET
Turkey’s population grew by 1 million people to 74.7 million at the end of 2011, the state statistics agency said.
More:Turkey 2011 Population Grew 1 Million to 74.7 Million - Bloomberg
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| Turkish state TV airs Holocaust film |
Turkish state TV airs Holocaust film
By SUZAN FRASER, Associated Press – 4 hours ago
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An epic French documentary about the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime has appeared on Turkish television to mark international Holocaust Remembrance Day — the first time the film has been aired on public television in a majority-Muslim country.
More:The Associated Press: Turkish state TV airs Holocaust film
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| Moving to Turkey was a bumpy rite of passage - Telegraph |
Moving to Turkey was a bumpy rite of passage
9:32AM GMT 27 Jan 2012
Just imagine the absurdity of two openly gay, recently married, middle-aged, middle-class men escaping the liberal sanctuary of anonymous London to relocate to a Muslim country. The country in question was not Iran (we had no desire to be lynched from the nearest olive tree), but neighbouring Turkey, a secular nation practising a moderate, state-supervised brand of Islam. For us, Turkey was the perfect choice for our place in the sun since we’d been dipping our toes in this side of the Aegean for years and were already hooked. Added to this, we had to be within an easy commute of Blighty for family reasons; there could be no lazing on a beach in Thailand or Belize for us. The deal-clincher was that Turkey was outside the eurozone, so our money went that bit further.
More:Moving to Turkey was a bumpy rite of passage - Telegraph
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| Thursday, January 26, 2012 |
| 'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia' review: a beautiful bore | NOLA.com |
'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia' review: a beautiful bore
Published: Thursday, January 26, 2012, 5:00 PM
Mike Scott, The Times-Picayune By Mike Scott, The Times-Picayune
Despite its title, the Turkish import "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" is not a fairy tale, and, one can forget about a happy ending. That's especially true for the man at the center of the slow-moving but beautifully shot cop drama from writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan ("Three Monkeys").
More:'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia' review: a beautiful bore | NOLA.com
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| Foreigners leave Turkey amid new residence law |
Foreigners leave Turkey amid new residence law
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News
A high nubmer of Armenian and Georgian people working in Turkey are leaving the country in the wake of a recent law implementation that complicates working permits for foreign people. While workers complain of extreme financial difficulties, Labor Ministry announces that there will be exceptions for house workers
More:RIGHTS - Foreigners leave Turkey amid new residence law
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| Turkey's 'historic' broadcast of Holocaust film Shoah - The National |
Turkey's 'historic' broadcast of Holocaust film Shoah
Thomas Seibert
Jan 27, 2012
ISTANBUL // The director of a nine-hour documentary about the Holocaust called the decision by Turkey’s state-run television station to broadcast it last night historic.
“This is proof of intelligence and courage,” Claude Lanzmann, a French filmmaker and director of Shoah, told The National by telephone from Paris yesterday. “It is an historical event. Turkey is the first [mainly] Muslim country to show a film like this.”
Turkey is majority Muslim but officially secular.
More:Turkey's 'historic' broadcast of Holocaust film Shoah - The National
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| Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan talks about country’s dual character | euronews, cinema |
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan talks about country’s dual character
Touching down in Serbia; the internationally acclaimed Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan was one of guests of honour at the Küstendorf Film Festival.
Serbian film director Emir Kusterica invited him to the 5th edition of his festival, to present him with the Retrospective of Greatness prize.
More:Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan talks about country’s dual character | euronews, cinema
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| Turkey Investigating Extrajudicial Killings - ABC News |
Turkey Investigating Extrajudicial Killings
By SELCAN HACAOGLU Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey January 20, 2012 (AP)
Authorities have exhumed the bodies of three Kurds as part of their investigation into alleged extrajudicial killings by Turkish security forces in the 1990s.
The bodies were found Thursday in a village in southeast Turkey.
More:Turkey Investigating Extrajudicial Killings - ABC News
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| Turkish Imports Totaled $238 Billion Last Year, Caglayan Says - Bloomberg |
Turkish Imports Totaled $238 Billion Last Year, Caglayan Says
By Steve Bryant and Ali Berat Meric - Jan 26, 2012 5:19 AM ET
Turkish imports totaled $238 billion last year, Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan said, raising the possibility of a narrower trade gap in December.
Imports in the first 11 months of the year were $220 billion, the Ankara-based state statistics agency said on Dec. 30. It will announce official December figures on Jan. 31.
More:Turkish Imports Totaled $238 Billion Last Year, Caglayan Says - Bloomberg
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| Yapi Kredi Surges on UniCredit Bonds, Fed Policy: Istanbul Mover - Businessweek |
Yapi Kredi Surges on UniCredit Bonds, Fed Policy: Istanbul Mover
January 26, 2012, 8:45 AM EST
By Benjamin Harvey
Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Yapi & Kredi Bankasi AS, a Turkish bank, surged the most in four months on bets that capital concerns at parent UniCredit SpA will ease and extra liquidity from the Federal Reserve will boost demand for banks in emerging markets.
More:Yapi Kredi Surges on UniCredit Bonds, Fed Policy: Istanbul Mover - Businessweek
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| Erdogan Pledges ‘No Revenge’ as Turkish Press in Spotlight - Emerging Europe Real Time - WSJ |
Erdogan Pledges ‘No Revenge’ as Turkish Press in Spotlight
By Ayla Albayrak
Turkey’s economy may have made giant leaps forward in 2011, but press freedoms appeared to take a significant step back. Scores of arrests and high-profile firings have fanned a growing international outcry that media freedoms here have been heavily compromised.
More:Erdogan Pledges ‘No Revenge’ as Turkish Press in Spotlight - Emerging Europe Real Time - WSJ
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| Jody Sabral: Turkey's Censorship Puzzle |
Turkey's Censorship Puzzle
Turkey has surpassed the likes of China, Iran and Russia, when it comes to the number of journalists/authors in prison, many of whom are being held without charge. At the time of writing this, anywhere between 70 to 100 journalists/authors sit in Turkish cells, their pens silenced for having an opinion on events unfolding in their own country. Many are internationally recognised for ground breaking work, uncovering corruption and organised crime. This can mean only one thing - free speech is becoming a thing of the past in Turkey, or is it?
More:Jody Sabral: Turkey's Censorship Puzzle
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| UPDATE 1-Soccer-Turkish clubs reject match-fixing sanction plan | Reuters |
UPDATE 1-Soccer-Turkish clubs reject match-fixing sanction plan
By Daren Butler
ISTANBUL, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Turkish soccer clubs rejected a federation proposal to spare clubs from possible relegation over a match-fixing scandal on Thursday, plunging Turkey's troubled multi-billion dollar league into deeper disarray amid pressure from UEFA to act.
More:UPDATE 1-Soccer-Turkish clubs reject match-fixing sanction plan | Reuters
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| Minister: Cyprus ready to work with Turkey during EU presidency - Monsters and Critics |
Minister: Cyprus ready to work with Turkey during EU presidency
Jan 26, 2012, 14:14 GMT
Copenhagen - Cyprus is ready during its turn this year at the European Union's rotating presidency to cooperate with Turkey, Interior Minister Neoklis Sylikiotis insisted on Thursday, but also took Ankara to task over its continued refusal to recognize his country.
More;Minister: Cyprus ready to work with Turkey during EU presidency - Monsters and Critics
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| Turks Lash Out at France Over Genocide Bill - NYTimes.com |
French Bill on Genocide Is Denounced by Turkey
By SEBNEM ARSU and SCOTT SAYARE
PARIS — The Turkish government and news media castigated France on Tuesday, accusing Parliament of racism and a breach of France’s own free speech principles after the French Senate passed a bill late Monday criminalizing the denial of officially recognized genocides, including the Armenian genocide begun in 1915.
More:Turks Lash Out at France Over Genocide Bill - NYTimes.com
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| Authentic Turkish Food to Prepare at Home | The Jakarta Globe |
Authentic Turkish Food to Prepare at Home
January 26, 2012
For its richness of flavor, Turkish cuisine has been among the favorite foreign foods in Indonesia for quite some time. Spanning two continents, it is no accident that the country’s cuisine combines Asian and European tastes.
More:Authentic Turkish Food to Prepare at Home | The Jakarta Globe
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| Turkey Sweetens Bosporus Bridge Project After Receiving No Bids - Bloomberg |
Turkey Sweetens Bosporus Bridge Project After Receiving No Bids
By Benjamin Harvey - Jan 26, 2012 3:24 AM ET
Turkey will try again to attract bidders to build a third Bosporus bridge in Istanbul, dropping a requirement for new highways and connecting roads, Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said.
More:Turkey Sweetens Bosporus Bridge Project After Receiving No Bids - Bloomberg
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| Turkey takes a turn to the East |
Turkey takes a turn to the East
Sakyra, Turkey (CNN) - Turkey has in the past focussed its trade on Europe, but with Europe's growing economic woes and a new political era in the Middle East, Turkey is slowly turning its political and economic attention east.
More:Turkey takes a turn to the East – Business 360 - CNN.com Blogs
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| Iran, Syria and Iraq: Turkey’s Challenging Triangle? |
Iran, Syria and Iraq: Turkey’s Challenging Triangle?
The triangle’s cooperation on questions of security is crucial to Turkey. Iran, Iraq and Syria share the volatile Kurdish issue with Turkey and each can play a part in lighting and quenching its fires, reports Idrees Mohammed.
Turkey is facing a difficult period with respect to ties with its triangle of neighbors: Iran, Syria and Iraq. Their current domestic situations and foreign policies are now endangering Turkey’s own domestic stability and foreign policy. A polarization now appears to exist in this regard and the triangle of Iran, Syria and Iraq’s Shiite population maintain somewhat similar attitudes vis-à-vis Turkey. The major reasons behind this state of affairs are regional power rivalries, conflicting attitudes towards the Arab Spring, and a mutually held stance in relation to the West. Developments currently unfolding within the triangle are now seen by Turkey as a cause of grave concern that will be difficult to overcome.
More:.:Middle East Online::Iran, Syria and Iraq: Turkey’s Challenging Triangle? :.
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| Emerging donors chip away at aid industry's status quo | Reuters |
FEATURE-Emerging donors chip away at aid industry's status quo
By Alex Whiting
Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:00am EST
Jan 26 (AlertNet) - Where most expat aid workers fear to tread in Mogadishu, recently arrived Turkish aid workers have been driving in the streets, swimming in the sea and praying in local mosques.
More:FEATURE-Emerging donors chip away at aid industry's status quo | Reuters
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| Ankara pessimistic over ties with Paris amid eagerness to avert "genocide" bill - Xinhua | English.news.cn |
Ankara pessimistic over ties with Paris amid eagerness to avert "genocide" bill
English.news.cn 2012-01-26 04:23:20
ANKARA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- In a frantic bid to avert the " genocide" bill, Turkey has canvassed in Paris to convince 60 French senators to apply to Constitutional Court to abolish the legislation. However, Ankara is pessimistic over the Turkish- French ties since "Turkish government had not many options that could be used as measures against France," observers said.
More:Ankara pessimistic over ties with Paris amid eagerness to avert "genocide" bill - Xinhua | English.news.cn
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| Swiss are trying to revive Armenian-Turkish protocols – political expert | Armenia News - NEWS.am |
Swiss are trying to revive Armenian-Turkish protocols – political expert
January 26, 2012 | 12:10
YEREVAN. – The Swiss are trying to revive the Armenian-Turkish protocols. New talks could resume, but Turkey must prove its sincerity, Regional Studies Center Director Richard Giragosian said, during a press conference on Thursday, adding that the Armenian-Turkish protocols are dead.
In his words, in this case Karabakh will not be viewed as a precondition for normalizing relations.
More:Swiss are trying to revive Armenian-Turkish protocols – political expert | Armenia News - NEWS.am
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| Bulgaria, Turks and the politics of apology - Opinion - Al Jazeera English |
Bulgaria, Turks and the politics of apology
During Bulgaria's 'Restoration of Names' process, nearly one million ethnic Turks were humiliated, says author.
London, United Kingdom - In 1989, under the last Communist government, nearly five per cent of the population in Bulgaria left the country as a result of the forced ethnic assimilation policy for Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish population. Soon after, Communism collapsed.
The action, cynically called "Restoration of the Names" or "Revival Process", did not contribute to the end of Communism in Bulgaria. It was more like a sign of the agony of a rotten regime resorting to the shock of populist nationalism to defibrillate its dying heart. It took the Bulgarian parliament 22 years to adopt a declaration apologising to its own citizens for the suffering inflicted on them.
More:Bulgaria, Turks and the politics of apology - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
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| Turkish Hair Specialist Visits Dubai: Hair Loss Tips for Women | Al Bawaba |
Turkish Hair Specialist Visits Dubai: Hair Loss Tips for Women
Published January 25th, 2012 - 14:24 GMT via SyndiGate.info
Seeing more scalp than flowing locks? Hair loss isn't just for middle-aged men but is affecting more and more women under 40. Dr Melike Külahçi is founder and medical director of Transmed, a clinic based in Turkey specialising in hair transplant technology. In Dubai recently, Külahçi offers some tops tips for home prevention of hair loss
More:Turkish Hair Specialist Visits Dubai: Hair Loss Tips for Women | Al Bawaba
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| For Turkish Journalists, Arrest Is A Real Danger : NPR |
For Turkish Journalists, Arrest Is A Real Danger
by Peter Kenyon
January 26, 2012
In the wake of the Arab Spring, some Muslims in North Africa are looking across the Mediterranean to Turkey as a potential model of a state that can be modern, Islamic and democratic.
But some analysts in the region say that model is flawed, and they are questioning Turkey's human-rights record and its dealings with the press.
More:For Turkish Journalists, Arrest Is A Real Danger : NPR
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| Turkey compensates airstrike victims |
Turkey compensates airstrike victims
Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:16AM
Families of airstrike victims mourn their loss. (file photo)
Turkey has allocated a compensation of about USD 67,000 to the families of the victims of a Turkish airstrike on a Kurdish village in the southeast of the country last month, Press TV reports.
More:PressTV - Turkey compensates airstrike victims
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