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Adalet sinemanın temelidir!
İstanbul’un artık klasikleşen sinemasal buluşmalarından ‘Uluslararası Suç ve Ceza Festivali’, 12’nci kez huzurlarımızda. 24 Kasım’a kadar sürecek etkinlik boyunca birçok uzun ve kısa metraj yapım seyirci karşısına çıkacak. Doyurucu bir program sunan organizasyon dahilinde paneller ve atölye çalışmaları da düzenlenecek.
#Uğur VardanJackson memorial a somber, spiritual celebration
LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson's fans and family bid him farewell at the Staples Center on Tuesday in a somber, spiritual ceremony, watched by millions around the world as they celebrated a man whose immense talents almost drowned beneath the spectacle of his life and fame
Kaş and Meis meet to mark peace, friendship
KAŞ - People of Turkey’s coastal town of Kaş and the Greek island of Meis, two sister towns, come together once again to mark the friendship and brotherhood between them. The three-day Lycian-Kaş Culture and Art Festival raises hopes for peace and the high spirit of the event will live longer in the memories of the people.
Turkey and the US unites through love of countries
ISTANBUL - Even when looking over her shoulder at the Bosphorus from the Ritz Carlton, it isn’t farfetched for Mona Tekin Diamond to talk about connecting with housewives in Anatolian villages. ’I’m not talking about upsetting husbands or women’s ways of doing things,’but we can help make more of their skills through development,’ she says.
Erotic Arab magazine sets a new Body Politic on fire
JOUNIEH, Lebanon -A new high-brow literary journal looks through the eyes of voyeurs, clerics and foot fetish experts. This mix of gonzo reporting, scholarly study and old-school Playboy is fueling the ire of religious and women’s groups, but its editor doesn’t flinch: ’We have to stop condescending to the Arab reader’
Jobs, crisis hurt ruling party in elections: Poll
ISTANBUL - A&G polling company, which enjoys a sturdy reputation in the country and was the firm that predicted local election results most accurately, says the ruling AKP suffered its first drop in percentage of votes in the March 29 elections due to rising unemployment and the effects of the economic crisis, citing results from its latest poll.
Martyrs of democracy
The power-obsessed prime minister of 1950s Turkey was telling his deputies that national will was above all other powers and since the ruling party received the highest vote in the election and was given the duty and privilege of administering the country on its own, if the ruling party majority in Parliament wanted to reintroduce caliphate, since they have the required majority in Parliament, thus the legislative power, they could do it. The nation was polarized at the time.
Obama's Turkey trip upsets Greek political circles
The visit of Barack Obama, a few days after the critical municipal elections in Turkey, has been a hotly debated issue. Especially after the "short and sharp" visit of Secretary Hillary Clinton to Ankara, the discussion on the probable changes that the new American administration bring upon its relations with Turkey, has divided Turkish analysts.
’Slumdog’ celebrations fill the slum of Bandra
MUMBAI - After the Oscar success of 'Slumdog Millionaire,' hordes of journalists descended on Bandra neighborhood of Mumbai on Monday. TV tripods straddled the thin stream of sewage outside Rubina's home while satellite trucks idled outside a sleepy tea stall
Conrad Istanbul's Kling-up through the traditional route
ISTANBUL - The Conrad Istanbul is not uniquely shaped for Istanbul, a city that architecturally is mostly populated with sharp pointed squares and rectangles. Its shape recalls the wavy roofs on fountains and over portals like those at Topkapı Palace and the Sultan Ahmet Fountain.
’Button’ dazzles visually, emotionally
LOS ANGELES - 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man who ages in reverse, is rambling and gorgeous -- perhaps a bit overlong and gooey in the midsection -- but one that leaves you with a lingering wistfulness.
Venue for high-powered meals: Cikare
ISTANBUL - Just one table, no waiters and no one to eavesdrop ... The entrance to this venue resembles a textile workshop. The venue is in Küçükarmutlu, considered a stronghold for leftists, just a bridge away from Istanbul’s posh area of Etiler. When one enters, the atmosphere is not as expected.
Turkish people characterize new lure of the East
Born and raised in Atlanta, where I still live, some of my travels have taken me along the Nile to Abu Simbel, on horseback to the temples of Petra and on foot to a monastery atop Patmos in Greece. In 2006 I joined my daughter, then an AP journalist, in Jerusalem. She shared Israel’s vast landscape with me.
Iraqi refugees sing with voice of hope
ISTANBUL - Recent violence targeting an indigenous Catholic community in Iraq has led thousands to find refuge in Turkey, not even a generation after being uprooted by Ba’athists. Nearly 500 parents and children gather in Istanbul this week to sing and rejoice with a visiting church group from Texas
Iraqi refugees sing with voice of hope
ISTANBUL - Recent violence targeting an indigenous Catholic community in Iraq has led thousands to find refuge in Turkey, not even a generation after being uprooted by Ba'athists. Nearly 500 parents and children gather in Istanbul this week to sing and rejoice with a visiting church group from Texas
Young architects shape landscape, city & space
ISTANBUL - The Archiprix Turkey 2008 competition, where students strive to unify the three guiding principles of architecture: Durability, utility and beauty, is organized for the 13th time this year. Ali Dur, an Istanbul Technical University student, is the winner with a project called Urban Station.
Inquest by Ministry of Health
The wearing of a headscarf by head physician, Fatma Nur Bozok and others working at the Mother and Infant health and Family Planning Clinic in the district of Fatih in Uşak during working hours, has caused an uproar. A formal inquiry will be launched about Fatma Nur Bozok, head physician at a hospital in Uşak, over the matter. Officials at the Ministry are of the conviction that the photographs of Bozok wearing a headscarf and smoking a cigarette, were taken outside her working environment. However, photographs taken of Bozok on different occasions suggest that she wears a headscarf at all times whilst at work.
Oktay Eksi: The spreading of "credit card disasters" in Turkey
Every concept and every organization which sets even one foot within the borders of our country winds up, in the end, going through a process of degeneration. I won't stretch out this explanation; I am referring in this instance to the "credit card disasters" which you are hearing about, reading about, and which now dominate the pages of all the newspapers.