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Kurdish violence spills over to Istanbul, 3 people dead
Three people were killed in Istanbul when a bus driver reversed his bus onto a pavement. The crowded passenger bus was under attack by a group of men who hurled petrol bombs at it, while shouting PKK slogans according to eye-witness reports. The blazing bus ran over a group of pedestrians when it reversed onto the pavement in the Istanbul suburb of Bagcilar on Sunday. These deaths are the latest in the violence that is sweeping the southeast of Turkey - a total of 12 people have died.
Fitness centers tailor to women’s self-confidence
ISTANBUL - With her trailblazing company run by women for women, Bedriye Hülya was named one of the most successful entrepreneurs by the New York-based group Endeavor in May. Going from 0 to 60 franchises across Turkey in three years, B-fit fitness chain’s 20,000 members have lost 10 tons.
Fitness centers tailor to women’s self-confidence
ISTANBUL - With her trailblazing company run by women for women, Bedriye Hülya was named one of the most successful entrepreneurs by the New York-based group Endeavor in May. Going from 0 to 60 franchises across Turkey in three years, B-fit fitness chain’s 20,000 members have lost 10 tons.
Imported nannies join black market
ISTANBUL -Whether to watch over a child or care for an elderly person, black market nannies, who are mostly women from former Soviet republics, are coming to Turkey in search of work and offering bargain wages. ’We earn a fortune here,’ says one nanny. Turkish caretaker agencies are decrying the women’s negative impact on their business and the risk to family security
Women raise voice for equal division of labor
ISTANBUL - One of the areas where the difference between men and women in Turkey is strikingly apparent is the division of housework. Women from around the world gather in Istanbul this week to tell their experience of how more of them went to business from household activities
Women elevating the Int’l Istanbul Film Festival
ISTANBUL -Among the female directors in the national competition of the Int’l Istanbul Film Festival, Aslı Özge and Pelin Esmer tell of Istanbulus tied to each other’s fates while San Sebastian winner Yeşim Ustaoğlu looks at isolation through a family’s broken relations
Expatriate’s guide to local elections in Turkey
FETHİYE - For foreigners living in Turkey election time can be confusing, but it is possible to gather information on the parties dreaming of victory on March 29. Despite their differences, all parties are the same when it comes to their future projections:Fethiye will be an utopia, whoever wins!
Abuse suspect gets hit at court
BURSA - Several women’s groups staged protests in front of a Bursa court house yesterday, as an elderly columnist accused of sexual assault of a minor faced the judge for the fourth time. The police took two protestors into custody after they hit the columnist with umbrellas.
A new kind of ’Islamic rooted’ candidate
ISTANBUL - People know him as an out-of-the-ordinary Islamic scholar, as he does not hesitate to speak the truth in many TV programs on Islam. Zekeriya Beyaz, however, is now in the world of politics as part of a social-democratic party, the Democratic Left Party, or DSP, and will run for Istanbul’s Esenler district.
UN counts war damage in Gaza Strip
GAZA CITY - The U.N. urged Israel to reopen Gaza crossings as senior officials assessed war damage yesterday and Israel warned it would strike again if Hamas rearms through smuggling tunnels. "If you want to have reconstruction, you have to have cement and construction materials and pipes and spare parts," said U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes at a U.N.-run school hit by an Israeli missile in the northern town of Beit Lahiya.
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.