ISTANBUL - Doğan Hosal, a cunning and humanistic architect, has achieved much success in his career. Hasol is the chairman of the Building Information Center, or YEM, and runs his company with his wife and daughter. He is now the creator of İzmir’s renewed symbolic Efes Hotel
ISTANBUL- The Annual World Jewelry Congress will be held in Istanbul this year with the aim to bring people from the jewelery industry together to establish strategies to combat the financial crisis. Organizers of the event believe it will be extremely rewarding for its host city
With its economic dynamism, Kayseri is one of the cities that inspired the term "Anatolian Tiger" used for cities where economies have been growing. Despite all it’s dynamism and economic growth, Kayseri is afraid of the economic crisis and says it cannot see into it’s future
ISTANBUL - The Grand Mabeyn within the Yıldız Palace complex has been undergoing careful renovations for 20 years and the restoration is finally complete. All that remains to be done is assembling the furniture and interior decor within the old building, which used to host heads of state during the latter years of the Ottoman Empire
ISTANBUL- Under a new project, housewives in Istanbul’s Eyüp district are becoming toy makers. The project, launched with the cooperation of the Turkish Work Association and European Union, is bringing back historic Eyüp toys and also creating job opportunities for women
BEIJING - Being home to some of the most unforgettable moments of the Beijing Olympics, the iconic Bird's Nest just serves as a museum while searching for a new purpose. It draws about 10,000 tourists daily who pay to walk on the stadium floor, recalling Olympic glory moments.
ISTANBUL - T-shirts, home decorations, cosmetics, vegetables go on sale for the last time Tuesday at Salı pazarı (Tuesday bazaar) in its traditional location, Istanbul’s Kadıköy district. While the new location is ready to host hundreds of customers, the market’s present area will be turned into a shopping complex.
Benim bu “dingiltürkçe” kelimelere illet olduğumu bildikleri için damarıma basıyorlar. Komple yapıyorlar bana komple... Önce, Yeşilköy’den bir arkadaşım arıyor beni, “Serdar, buralarda bir berber dükkanı var, adını tahmin et bakalım!” Ne bileyim ya ben, bu dallamalar giderek daha yaratıcı oluyor, mesela Khyrick Tarach Aly olabilir mi?