Şarkıları dünyada milyonlarca dinlemeye ulaşan Belçikalı şarkıcı Konoba yeni albümünü çıkarmasının hemen ardından üç konser vermek için Türkiye’ye geliyor: “Her bir kıtadan, birbirinden tamamıyla farklı insanların aynı anda şarkılarımı dinlemesi müthiş bir duygu. Çünkü müziğim aracılığıyla birbirlerinden haberleri olmadan aralarında bir bağ oluşuyor.”
#Raphael Esterhazy‘On Our Knees’ şarkısıyla dünyada büyük bir başarıya imza atan ve ülkemizde de çok sevilen R.O & Konoba, Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir, Eskişehir ve Antalya konserleri için Mart ayında Türkiye turunda. ‘Electro-pop’ ve ‘downtempo’ türleri ile enstrümantal vokal öğelerini sound’unda birlikte kullanan R.O & Konoba konser sonrası seyircisiyle zaman geçirmeyi de seviyor. Konser bittikten sonra bile mekanın salonunda seyircilerine akustik şarkılar çalmaya devam ediyor yani eğlence hiç bitmiyor.
#On Our Knees"Canakkale Naval Victory granted an enormous trust to Turkish people", said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who attended the celebration ceremony of 92th anniversary of Canakkale Naval Victory, on Sunday. Erdogan who delivered a speech at the ceremony said, Canakkale victory showed that if parties join forces for the country, they can overcome every hardship.
Debates yesterday over an upcoming Ombudsmanship Bill before the Turkish Parliament set the stage for some fierce arguments between MPs and government ministers over Turkey's EU aspirations. Standing to address his counterparts in the parliament's main chambers, CHP MP from Istanbul, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, said "We must stand honorably before the EU.
The political tension between Russia and neighboring countries Georgia and Moldavia has had a new element added to it: wine trouble. Last week, the head of Russia's Agricultural Products Testing board, Genadiy Onishencko, made a sharp announcement to the press that "We have discovered foreign elements in Georgian and Moldavian wines on the level that could cause harm to humans who consume them. Therefore, import of these wines into our country is going to be forbidden."
Though still pending in its details, a potential visit to Turkey by Pope Benedict XVI has stirred up controversy in Ankara as well as Vatican City circles. At the center of concern for some Turkish officials is what would happen if the Pope were to visit, and then pray, at Istanbul's Hagia Sophia. Their trepidation is that if the Pope prays at the Hagia Sophia, he would, however unwittingly, be undermining the historical structure's current status as a museum.