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Sinema şöleni başlıyor
Sinemaseverlerin her yıl merakla beklediği İstanbul Film Festivali için geri sayım başladı. 29. kez düzenlenecek festival 3 Nisan'da başlayacak ve 15 gün boyunca 2009 ve 2010’un yeni yapımlarının yanı sıra sinemanın unutulmaz klasikleri ve usta yönetmenlerinin başyapıtlarından seçmeler içeren 22 bölümde 57 ülkeden 243 yönetmenin 200’ün üzerinde filminden oluşan benzersiz bir program sunacak.
Jackson memorial a somber, spiritual celebration
LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson's fans and family bid him farewell at the Staples Center on Tuesday in a somber, spiritual ceremony, watched by millions around the world as they celebrated a man whose immense talents almost drowned beneath the spectacle of his life and fame
Placard of equality
Last weekend, while I was watching the Gazi Koşusu, the horserace dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, at the Istanbul Hippodrome, I felt both happy and sad. I was happy because I felt that we owe a word of appreciation to the Turkish Jockey Club, which has been organizing the show for 85 years, and to all the horse-breeders and employees of the club.
Miracle rescue from Yemen crash
MORONI, Comoros - A Yemeni teenage girl clings to debris, barely able to swim, after being thrown from the Yemeni jet that crashed into the Indian Ocean, officials say, hailing the only survivor from the grave disaster. As a desperate hunt for other survivors of the crash resumes, one of the plane's black boxes is found, French officials say
Reflecting on man in the mirror
ISTANBUL - News of the death of Michael Jackson, the self-proclaimed "King of Pop," caused shock and sadness in Turkey, where fans voiced their grief online and arranged a mourning parade in Istanbul’s Eminönü district. MJTurkFan, a Web-based group for diehard Turkish Jackson fans, was home to many condolence messages.
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.
Director Nuri Kino: What was done to me created me
MARDİN - A Syriac man, whose life story is like a film, is a part of this year's Sinemardin Film Festival in the southeastern Mardin. Well-known journalist and director Nuri Kino, who was born in Midyat but raised in Sweden, says, 'I have seen many red carpets in my life, but I have never been this emotional and happy to participate in a film festival.'
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
Multicultural director leads multilingual teaching school
ISTANBUL - Born in Palestine and since making a home in Beirut, St. Louis, Denmark and now Istanbul, an international preschool director is most at home as a foreigner abroad and holds a special affinity for Turkey. Christina Heath extends the lessons of her own multilingual upbringing to the children at Eden’s Garden Preschool, where she is the director and a teacher.
Istanbul craft tour: It’s reigning women
ISTANBUL - On the Behind the Bazaar tour next month meet women designers who whip antique pieces into forward-fashion shape. As the few female merchants among the some 4,000 Grand Bazaar shops can attest, males have ruled the sales roost. But women are shaping their own paths in the art market, traditions intact
A peace-instilling Ottoman yard returns: the Valide-i Atik Complex
ISTANBUL - The Valide-i Atik Complex is one of the last works of Mimar Sinan, the renowned chief architect of the Ottoman Empire during the period when it was at its height. Valide-i Atik means ’the old mother of a sultan’ and refers to one of the more famous - or, perhaps, infamous - mothers to ever inhabit the imperial harem, Nurbanu Sultan
Tasmanian take on transgender issues
ISTANBUL -They are often in the media when they are arrested for prostitution, beaten by a client or police, or worst of all when they are victims of a hate crime. But this time transgender people living in Istanbul are on camera to talk about themselves and their lives to an independent filmmaker from Australia’s Tasmania.
Turning to humor to endure deadly flu
MEXICO CITY - As Mexicans lock themselves inside in fear of the deadly swine flu virus, they can't help but have a little fun with it. The country’s newspapers offer smiley cutouts for people to paste to their masks, and some drivers have fashioned masks for their cars
Doctor, children’s advocate and a suspect
ISTANBUL - Perhaps you wouldn’t have associated the woman talking with people below from her window of her wooden house in Arnavutköy with the Türkan Saylan known for her extensive work as a doctor and the leader of a number of philanthropic organizations such as the Leprosy Relief Association and Foundation, or CSDV, and the Association for Supporting Contemporary Life, or ÇYDD.
Running for her life with nothing to lose
ISTANBUL - Rock singer Aylin Aslım has a new album and little tolerance for nonsense. She says she’s ’still not in that accept-everything stage. I hope I never get there.’ With a concert this Wednesday in Istanbul premiering her third album in stores next month, Aslim’s songs have earned acceptance from some 200,000 listeners online
Directors illuminate film fest with whimsy in the dark
ISTANBUL - Set in the aftermath of sectarian fighting in India in 2002, Firaaq is the directorial debut of well-known actress Nandita Das, who presents her film at the festival in Istanbul this week. Das is one of many female directors from outside Turkey with films in the festival, 14 of which are given the spotlight here by the festival director and the Daily News
Hungarian FM Göncz: New concept in visa regimes
ISTANBUL - A new concept was introduced in Turkey’s diplomatic world this week; a visa center set up by the Hungarian government will have the authority to represent other countries in the granting of European Union visas, starting with Slovenia and Estonia.
Federer’s big dreams may be stifled by baby
ISTANBUL - Roger Federer eagerly awaits the arrival of his first child, but the baby may intervene as the Swiss tennis star tries to equal and break Pete Sampras’s record of 14 Grand Slam titles. History shows that fathers have won only 10 of the last 115 Grand Slam titles and some fellow tennis stars suggest that it will be hard for him
St Paul Cultural Center welcomes expats in Antalya
ANTALYA - Saint Paul Cultural Center is a multi-faceted community center that serves both foreigners and Turkish residents living in the city. Besides offering religious services to all those who want to participate, the center also holds English conversation groups, which offer the chance to practice one's English with native speakers and has a library of 2.500 books. "Whether Catholic or Orthodox, everyone from all nationalities and backgrounds is welcome to our center," says one founder