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Maaşından artırdı 30 ülke gezdi (Dünya turu)
Aydan Ayarcılar (37) özel bir şirkette sistem analisti olarak çalışıyor. Yorucu iş temposundan artırdığı zamanlarda tek düşüncesi seyahat... Yeni kültürleri tanımak onun için öyle büyük bir tutku ki, maaşının neredeyse tamamını gezmek için harcıyor. Bugüne kadar üç kıtada toplam 30 ülkeye ayak bastı. Güney Amerika’da beş haftal gezdi, Peru’da kamp kurdu, Amazonlar’da pembe yunuslarla yüzdü, Bolivya’da bisikletle ölüm yolundan geçti. Sıradaki rotası ise pirinç tarlaları, tapınakları ve savaş tünelleriyle ünlü Vietnam...
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Kurdish cinema brings new breath to world film sector
ISTANBUL - Kurdish filmmakers living in various parts of the world have produced and recently released the first Kurdish cinema resource book. ’Kurdish cinema draws interest to its different themes during a period when Hollywood is reaching a dead end. There is an interest in an unknown society and culture,’ says documentary maker Müjde Aslan.
No verdict, only tribulations in 30-year trial
ISTANBUL - Abba topped the music charts, the two superpowers’ leaders were named Carter and Brezhnev and the mobile phone had yet to be invented when 24-year-old leftist Cahit Akçam was arrested in 1980 for membership in an alleged terrorist organization.
Bird sanctuary as price for peace?
KARS - As debate continues about opening the border between Turkey and Armenia, which would be a great step toward normalizing relations between the two countries, scientists are concerned about the area's untouched wildlife. Increased traffic across the border opening may bring more danger for this major migratory bird habitat and its globally endangered bird species
Last turn in the genocide issue
Let’s not get upset with others or blame them. We are the ones responsible for this. We have ignored the Armenian genocide for 94 years. They have worked like bees, created a honeycomb and established an enormous beehive. And we only watched them. We buried our heads in the sand and wasted our time talking.
Identities forged on battleground
ISTANBUL - While April 25 will see thousands of Australians and New Zealanders once more descend on Gallipoli to be present at this year’s Anzac Day ceremony, the real memory of this horrific campaign lies forever silently entrenched along the ridges and shores of this significant peninsula.
Seal found dead on Bodrum coast
MUĞLA - Questions of animal rights arise again after a Mediterranean seal is found dead in Bodrum and it is suspected that the seal was killed for its fur. Member of a local environmental group rues the bad conditions around theseals habitat and says they are on the brink of extinction
Six films in fresh styles by innovative Turkish directors
ISTANBUL - With its 'New Turkish Cinema' division, the 28th edition of the Istanbul International Film Festival that continues through April 19 will bring subtitled versions of a rich selection of movies by newcomers and some of Turkey's most innovative directors to English-speaking audiences.
Turkish films run for film festival’s Golden Tulip
ISTANBUL - Turkey’s biggest film festival, the Istanbul International Film Festival, opens with 14 Turkish films running for the Golden Tulip in the national competition. Here’s a look at some of this year’s runners, which are already known to Turkish audiences