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Is Ergenekon a real threat or imagined ploy?

ISTANBUL - The alleged Ergenekon gang and its accompanying theories are making news everyday. Everyone has an opinion about Ergenekon, including a majority of Turks who believe the alleged gang is real, according to a new survey.

Dar ve sexy mi yoksa rahat ve sağlıklı mı?

Slip iç çamaşırı modeli kullanılmaya başlanalı yaklaşık 80 yıl oldu ve satış rakamlarına göre hala erkekler için birinci sırada olmayı sürdürüyor. Uzmanlar ise slip iç çamaşırların o kadar da "seksi" olmadığını ve dar iç çamaşırı giyen erkeklerin çocuk sahibi olmakta sıkıntı yaşayabileceklerini söylüyor.

Women’s role on the Internet

ISTANBUL - Women in Turkey use the net more interactively than men, as the majority use Web sites for shopping and social utility networks, according to a survey carried out by the BBDO advertising agency.

Kaş and Meis meet to mark peace, friendship

KAŞ - People of Turkey’s coastal town of Kaş and the Greek island of Meis, two sister towns, come together once again to mark the friendship and brotherhood between them. The three-day Lycian-Kaş Culture and Art Festival raises hopes for peace and the high spirit of the event will live longer in the memories of the people.

Earthquake proof work causes chaos on bridges

ANKARA - Earthquake proofing work that is being carried out on Istanbul’s Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge over a 40-day period causes chaos to the city’s already congested traffic flow. The aftermath of hours of gridlock on the first days left the public fleeing to alternative routes causing even more congestion at peak times on first bridge and on ferry boats.

Hi-tech investment launched in Gebze

GEBZE - Tusaş, a Turkish defense company and General Electric Aviation launch a technology base near Istanbul. The center will focus on design, research and development of jet engines, gas tribune systems and sub-systems components.

Turkish musical play Broadway blockbuster

NEWYORK - 'Hisseli Harikalar Kumpanyası' (The Joint Venture Company of Wonders), which is the first Turkish musical to be staged on Broadway, drew plenty of interest from Turks as well as Americans at its weekend performance. The playwright of the play, famous Turkish theater actor Haldun Dormen was among the audience.

Actress aims to build a bridge between Turkey and Chile

ISTANBUL - Chile is a long way from Turkey but exchange programs of various sorts can help bridge some of that geographical gap. One of those programs culminates in two prominent Chilean films, Machuca and B-Happy, which are showing at the Pera Museum. Starting with Pera was very useful and from there it will grow, according to young and attractive Chilean actress Manuela Martelli, who stars in one of the films.

The saga of an unusual record: A Turkish history album for piano

ISTANBUL - It’s not everyday there’s a compact disc recording with a timeless quality about it that can be played many times with pleasure. Not only that, but clearly a great amount of research was invested in finding copies of the relevant music. All the tracks on the CD are marches composed for the Turks in the 19th and 20th centuries. Reşit Mehmet Erol is the man behind this idea of putting history onto a music recording.

Obama makes high court pick

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama reportedly nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court yesterday, making her the first Hispanic in history picked to wear the robes of a justice.

Not enough services for Turkey’s disabled

ISTANBUL - Out of 50,000 blind people in Turkey only 2,600 receive an education, announced the general president of the Six Dots Foundation for the Blind yesterday.

Europeans rally on May Day amid economic worries

MOSCOW - Workers rallied Friday in European cities to mark May Day, with tens of thousands of demonstrators across Russia supporting or slamming the government amid growing unemployment and economic troubles.

Opera stages pushing young singers abroad

ISTANBUL -For some of Turkey’s young opera singers, a lack of jobs at home and higher standards abroad mean singing on foreign stages is both a professional dream and a necessity. ’Just going to class is not enough. To have a chance abroad, you must be well outfitted,’ they say

Meows and woofs translate to votes

ADANA - The ’I give my word covenant’ is a public campaign demanding promises from mayoral candidates to care for the rights of animals and take their well being into consideration. Animal rights foundations say they will not vote for candidates who do not sign their pledge. Roughly 200 candidates have signed on to the pledge

Trabzon’s mayor faces gov’t power

ISTANBUL - The main opposition party, the CHP’s Trabzon candidate and current mayor, Volkan Canalioğlu, or ’Volkan Abi’ to many city residents competes with the ruling AKP’s Orhan Fevzi Gümrükçüoğlu, who looks to have strong government backing that might persuade voters to support him

Showing no signs of slowing down after 45 years

ISTANBUL - In 45 years on the job, veteran Turkish journalist, TV producer, columnist and writer Mehmet Ali Birand has interviewed some of the world’s leading personalities. In person, he is a calm gentleman, who loves writing books and being a news reporter

Baking political ’Utopia’ in Turkey

ISTANBUL - Seventy people from every religion and culture in support of universal brotherhood and the craving for an ideal country come together to found the ’Bread Party,’ inspired by the well-known novel ’Utopia’ of Thomas More defining an ideal country

Death brings Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders together

Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat on Saturday attended the funeral of Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias's father-in-law in the southern side of the divided island.

Birinci from Emirates-Area manager par excellence

ISTANBUL - Airlines and businesses were first affected by the Gulf War, the Iraqi War, fuel price increases over the past three to four years and then the economic crisis.

'Intimidation by means of the state'

ANKARA – The imposing tax fine on Dogan Media Group, or DMG, is a testimony to the danger democracy faces in Turkey, parliamentarians said yesterday, adding that government has geared up its campaign to suppress odd voices in the run up to local elections March 29.

MPs charge fine an ’act of politics’

ANKARA - The monumental tax fine imposed on the Doğan Media Group is a danger to democracy, according to opposition deputies in Parliament. International advocates for press freedom chime in to lament the threatening menace to media independence represented by the fine.

The opportunity lost 10 years ago

I’m sure you’ll remember. 10 years ago, we woke up and saw Prime Minister Ecevit announcing "Abdullah Öcalan has been caught and brought to Turkey."

Pandora’s Box: All about their mother

Director Yeşim Ustaoğlu dissects middle-class sensibilities and decaying city life in her heartbreaking tale of a mother with no memory, three children on the verge of breakdowns and a confused grandson in ’Pandora’nın Kutusu’ (Pandora’s Box).

Change to be promoted at the Istanbul Biennal

ISTANBUL - The conceptual framework of the 11th Istanbul International Biennial seeks 'to find a way out from the double deadlock of global neo-liberalism and local nationalism,’ and is inspired by Bertolt Brecht's 1928 song 'What keeps mankind alive?' The four female Croation curators of the biennial say the topic and its questions require urgent attention from today’s society.

Forget political agenda, says Egypt ambassador

ANKARA - ’I am optimistic that we will reach a cease-fire soon, but not overly optimistic, cautiously optimistic,’ underlines Egyptian Ambassador to Ankara Alaa El Hadidi, adding political agenda should be taken out of the equation

Gardening the new holiday eden xyxyxyx

ISTANBUL - Hobby gardening has become popular in recent years due to the boom in compound properties with large communal gardens. Over the past year Botanika has hosted gardening workshops to encourage people to take up the hobby. The workshops are open to anyone interested in growing their own plants and vegetables at home

A Bird’s Eye View: Ministerial media-mania

We do not want to appear as if we are repeating ourselves, but we will try once more to appeal to politicians of this planet to restrict their public relations appearances and their constant presence on TV or elsewhere. Why? Simply because humanity does not care today and does not watch or listen to them. We shall be more specific.