BBC Music'in lansmanı için sayamadığımız kadar çok sanatçı bir araya gelip The Beach Boys'un God Only Knows parçasını yorumladılar. Ünlü sanatçılar arasında Stevie Wonder, Lorde, David Grohl, Elton John, Kylie Minogue, Florence Welch, Pharrell, One Direction, Chrissy Hynde, Sam Smith yer alıyor.
#God Only KnowsISTANBUL - Through her camera lens Italian native Delizia Flaccavento explores the plight of Iraqi immigrants who have fled to Turkey. In a project this winter the photojournalist took over 6,000 photos of the Chaldean Christian Iraqi community in Turkey raising awareness on the 'other victims' of the Iraqi War.
Politization of a criminal case may produce some awkward results, could turn into a character assassination and definitely cannot serve to the cause of justice. If and when people implicated in a criminal investigation are subjected to summary execution on the front pages of newspapers or on TV screens, it becomes all the more difficult to talk about respect to the supremacy of law in that country.
ISTANBUL - A highly prominent 12-day road trip ends for Beşiktaş, which takes confident steps toward a trophy double. Days after getting a famous win over fierce rival Fenerbahçe in the Turkish Cup, Denizli’s boys beat Ankaragücü to maintain their position as the Turkish league leader
In all probability, the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, will win in three days’ time its third consecutive national confidence vote since it became to power in 2002. This time, the critical thresholds are 40 and 50 percent of the national vote, i.e., less than 40 percent would not be alarming yet indicative of a saturation point, and more than 50 percent will illustrate a seal on the AKP’s grip on power. I would bet for the latter rather than the former possibility.
If you want to get a sense of what has been going on in the Turkish political scene lately, you should take a look at the case of Mustafa Balbay. Balbay is the Ankara correspondent of daily Cumhuriyet, the beacon of Kemalist (i.e., secularist and nationalist) ideology.
Israeli officials said Monday the Jewish state hopes to pull all troops out of the Gaza Strip before Tuesday's inauguration of Barack Obama as the new U.S. president, following a tentative truce with Hamas that allowed Palestinians to take stock of the devastating three-week war.
Yesterday, for the first time in five years, Turkey’s Grand National Assembly did not break for Friday prayer. A group of AKP MPs left the room once it became clear that TBMM Vice President Güldal Mumcu (CHP-Izmir), who was chairing a budget meeting, meant to continue without breaking for Friday prayer. Only 12 AKP representatives, including seven women, remained in their seats.