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Tembel miçolar içintekneyle dünya turu
4 okyanus, 5 kıta, 38 bin deniz mili ve dünyanın etrafında yelkenle 9 aylık bir maraton. Sizi geçen hafta İspanya’nın Alicante Limanı’ndan başlayan dünyanın en uzun soluklu yarışına davet ediyoruz. Uygulamayı indirin, teknenizi seçin ve salondaki kanepenizden açık denizlerde mücadeleyle dolu bu maceraya katılın.
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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.
A ’hand’ reaches from Torah, Bible and Koran
ISTANBUL - Piano virtuoso and composer Tayfun Erdem examined the verses of the Torah, Bible and Koran for 16 years with the accuracy of a theologian and composed music for the verses he selected for 'El.' ’An inside voice guided me. I chose the verses offering rhythm and feeling to my soul,’ said Erdem.
Youth tackles caste system and socializes self-interest
ISTANBUL - Istanbul tenth grader Sid Shekhar wraps up a global leadership week at Harvard University where he is taking a yearlong project to the next level: He hopes to contribute to a movement to abolish the caste system in India. If world citizenship is revealed through one's plans to help people who benefit the least from the globalization, then Shekhar is surely a leader among citizens.
No to right wing parties in Europe, says the Turkish right
"Nazis came out of the elections in Europe!" That was the headline in an Islamic newspaper in the wake of center- and right-wing parties making visible gains in the European Parliament in last week’s election. Ironically, it was the same newspaper whose Islamist clientele had held out the infamous placard that read "Now I understand Hitler!"
Residents prepare for Obama traffic chaos
ISTANBUL-While US President Barack Obama is getting ready to set foot in Istanbul today, local residents are also preparing for two days of traffic nightmares. Presidential visits in the past like Iranian Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last summer, as well as Thursday’s rehearsals to meet Obama, have blocked off roads in the city for hours.
First ladies of pop unite to support survivors of abuse
ISTANBUL - For the first time in Turkish history top female vocalists assemble to perform on the same stage, some together, some in Kurdish Ğ all singing each other’s songs. Their cause is united behind a campaign against domestic violence in Turkey and a hotline that has had close to 12,000 callers in a year and a half, 2,500 of whom required emergency services.
There is a God. So stop worrying and enjoy your life
My column neighbor Burak Bekdil, with whom I often disagree, had an interesting piece last month titled "I give up... No Panama hats or alcohol!" By using sharp examples and witty stories, he was basically questioning the level of acceptance that religious-freedom-seeking Turks are ready to grant to those who seek freedom from religion
A brave man of state: Bulent Ecevit
One of the legends of our political world died yesterday, November 5. Bulent Ecevit spent the last 49 years of his 81 year life on active politics, and on serving his country. He leaves behind him a squeaky clean political name. In his life, Ecevit put before the country the most incredible example of what it means to fight, without straying from your principles, in even the most hopeless of conditions.