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Köln Üniversitesi’nde ‘Irkçılığa Karşı Öz Örgütlenme’ sergisi
Hamburgu’da yaşayan ve uzun yıllardır ırkçılık karşıtı etkinliklerin içinde yer alan sosyolog Gürsel Yıldırım’ın hazırladığı ‘Hamburg’da ‘Irkçılığa Karşı Göçmenlerin Öz Örgütlü direnişi’ konulu sergi, Köln Üniversitesi’nin ‘Diversity Week’ (Çeşitlilik Haftası) kapsamındaki etkinlikler çerçevesinde açıldı.
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Time to focus on homework for EU
ISTANBUL -’The best investment Turkey can make is to do its homework well. There are, of course, many opinions on Turkey’s European Union membership in the union of 27 states,’ Finnish President Tarja Halonen tells the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review in Istanbul last week.
Obama aces test by local students
ISTANBUL-One word: Approachable. US President Barack Obama speaks with Turkish university students and answers their questions in an intimate town hall-style meeting during his second day in Istanbul. ’This attitude is something a Turk is not used to,’ one student says
Danish Premier to come to Istanbul
ANKARA - Danish prime minister Rasmussen will participate in the meeting of the Alliance of Civilizations summit in Istanbul. Turkey objects to Rasmussen’s candidacy for next secretary-general of NATO due to his role in the cartoon crisis of 2006, sparking anger in the Muslim world.
Youngsters want better education all around world
ISTANBUL - World Water Youth Forum, organized for the 4th time within the 5th World Water Forum, brought together hundreds of youngsters from around the world. They discussed the same themes as the participants of the Forum but they already have a concrete solution to world's water problem: They want better education all around the world
EU constitutional gondola beckons
ANKARA - The government is preparing to introduce a new constitutional amendment package to make party closures more difficult in both substantive and procedural ways. The proposition, yet to be finalized by the ruling party, draws upon a Venice Commission report released last week that says Turkey’s closure procedures do not meet EU standards
Protestors and world leaders all together at the 5th water forum
ISTANBUL - The 5th World Water Forum, being held at the Sütlüce Culture and Conference Center on the Golden Horn, is not all calm seas. The forum kicked off with two protests, one near the conference center and one in Beyoğlu. Some protestors were detained.
CHP office adds voice to Brussels: Bureau chief
BRUSSELS - As Europeans barely understand what is happening in Turkey where the political agenda changes on a daily basis, Turkey’s main opposition party's representative to the EU says the CHP presence in Brussels will contribute to pluralism in Europe and to better understand Turkey
Global paths cross freely with meet-up site
ISTANBUL - In a year and a half, the online community Internations has attracted some 90,000 people in 230 countries. Through its local Web page, more than 800 people have already found each other in Istanbul. The group’s next gathering is this Thursday in Beyoğlu
DTP speaks Kurdish in parliament, speaker says constitutional breach
The leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) gave a Kurdish speech in his address during the party's parliamentary group meeting. State TV, TRT, cut the live broadcast, while the parliament speaker said the move was a breach of constitution. (UPDATED)
Welcome to Kurdistan (not north Iraq)
The Abant Platform, which holds frequent conferences at which Turkish intellectuals convene to discuss timely issues, was in northern Iraq last week. I was among the nearly one hundred names that were supposed to fly from Istanbul to Arbil for this significant meeting, but a last minute change of plans destined me rather to Washington. Yet I have been carefully reading what Abant participants have been writing about their experience in Iraqi Kurdistan Ñ a country whose very name is a big bone of contention in Turkey.
Turkey’s museum shops up for grabs
AYDIN - Gift shops attached to museums in 58 top tourism spots around the country are up for rent, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced yesterday. The aim is to create uniform and quality gift shops at top tourist destinations, such as the Hagia Sofia, Topkapı Palace and Efes Open Air museums.
Shedding light on living history
ISTANBUL - French native and historian Sebastien de Courtois' relationship with Turkey runs deep in his family of diplomatic ancestors working in this land during Ottoman times. He now writes about the living history of the country's Syriac Orthodox community in the hope that Turkey can make peace with its own past.
They argue, they bicker and they challenge one another
From time to time, most if not all professionals are sure to lament the passing of the "way it was" in their chosen discipline. Diplomats will recall when everyone had to speak at least two foreign languages, engineers will extol the virtues of slide rules, the senior pilot or mariner will chat all night about the tricks of navigation before the Global Positioning System.
Happy Hanukkah
Today marks the first day of the Jewish Hanukkah Ğ well more specifically the first candle was lit last night at sunset but this doesn’t detract from our narrative Ğ and as we at the Daily News have dedicated column inches to this month’s Islamic and Christian celebrations here in Turkey, it is only fitting we pay mention to Turkey’s significant, yet often under-reported Jewish community, which over the next eight days will honor the consecration of the Second Temple of Jerusalem.
First Hatay Meeting of Civilizations comes to a close
Today brings the end to a week long meeting which has demonstrated the diversity of religion within Turkey. The First Hatay Meeting of Civilizations, held this week in the religiously and ethnically diverse southern city of Hatay was attended by Turkey's Chief Rabbi Isak Haleva who joined a call to banish violence from all religions and to work toward peace in society. Speaking to the press Haleva said, "civilizations were spending $100 million every hour for tanks, rifles and bullets... If this is civilization, then I am not a part of it. Is this what our creator expects of us?"