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The never ending story of Halki Theological Seminary reopening
ISTANBUL - Since 1971 there have been attempts to reopen the Halki Theological Seminary on Istanbul’s Heybeliada and while the appeals have not fallen on deaf ears, various reasons have been put forward as to why it should not be reopened. Successive Turkish governments have argued that reopening Halki would lead the way to applications for Muslim universities, even though Muslim seminaries were never opened before. However, the current education minister has said he can see no reason why it cannot be reopened
The failure of cannonballs and the father of canon law
This weekend, as Turkey prepares to host U.S. President Barack Obama, I find myself thinking about cannonballs and canon law. This is a moment when we should all be focused on U.S.-Turkish ties. I have been. And my mind consistently returns to these two subjects, which, I believe, can tell something about this critical relationship Ğ or, really, about the lack of it.
One of Beyoğlu’s earliest foreign embassies - Palais de Hollande
ISTANBUL - The first Dutch envoy, Cornelius Haga, reached Istanbul in 1612 to negotiate the terms of trade, fiscal and legal provisions between Holland and the Ottoman Empire. The Palais de Hollande is a charming example of the elegant buildings designed in Istanbul’s Pera by foreign architects.
Monaco’s Ali Baba wine treasure trove
MONTE CARLO - Monaco’s Hotel de Paris is home to the world's largest hotel cellar with some 450,000 bottles of top vintages. Wines are stored in the cellar, or ’laid down’ as they say in the trade, several decades before being drunk. The most precious one is an 1850 Chateau Bel Air-Marquis d’Aligre