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Marka yolculuğu eşiyle başladı, 30’u Rusya’da 148 mağazayı yakaladı
Manifaturacı bir babanın oğlu olarak Kocamustafapaşa’da büyüyen Adil Işık, hazır giyim imalatına yöneldi ve ‘toptan markası’ olarak atölyelere fason üretim yaptırırken tasarımcı Zehra Hanım ile tanışıp evlendi. 2000 yılından itibaren mağazalaşmaya başlayan Adil Işık’ın markaları için yılda 6 milyon parça giysi üretiliyor ve yurtiçinde 103, yurtdışında 45 mağaza bu ürünleri satıyor.
’Turkey got more than it wanted on Nabucco’
ISTANBUL - The Nabucco pipeline, which will carry Caspian andMiddle Eastern gas to Europe via Turkey, will be designed to operate in the opposite direction in order to provide for the energy needs of Turkey in times of crisis. Turkey was right to be concerned about its own energy security, says EUCommissioner Piebalgs, adding Ankara got what it wanted
’Turkey got more than it wanted on Nabucco’
ISTANBUL - The Nabucco pipeline, which will carry Caspian andMiddle Eastern gas to Europe via Turkey, will be designed to operate in the opposite direction in order to provide for the energy needs of Turkey in times of crisis. Turkey was right to be concerned about its own energy security, says EUCommissioner Piebalgs, adding Ankara got what it wanted
PKK the one to fear oil development
An extremely important development took place Monday in northern Iraq. You can certainly read about it in yesterday’s papers. For the first time, the Regional Kurdish Administration in northern Iraq allowed a private group, one partnered with Çukurova’s Genel Enerji, to extract its own petroleum and export it through Turkey.
Landmines in fields, landmines in minds
With the start of debates over the landmines along the Syrian border, we have learned what a "minefield" Turkey is. They are not in the land but also in minds, too. Clearing landmines is a difficult task, but I am afraid eliminating mines in the mind will take time enough to bury us all.
Turkey's foreign policy shift confuses Western allies, report says
ISTANBUL - Turkey’s allies are confused by the shift in its foreign policy and its pronounced Eurasian and/or Middle Eastern bent, an independent Finnish research agency finds. Although some believe the country is turning its back on the West; others say Ankara’s foreign policy is well balanced in all directions, while yet others find Turkey’s conduct to be essentially ‘directionless’.
The battle for Turkey’s soul: Elites vs. the West
Turkey is an elite project; historically, large elite groups, i.e., mega elites constituting sizeable portions of the society, have led Turkey toward their own societal values and foreign policy choices. This was the case during the Ottoman Empire, the Republican era, and, today, with the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP.
Erotic Arab magazine sets a new Body Politic on fire
JOUNIEH, Lebanon -A new high-brow literary journal looks through the eyes of voyeurs, clerics and foot fetish experts. This mix of gonzo reporting, scholarly study and old-school Playboy is fueling the ire of religious and women’s groups, but its editor doesn’t flinch: ’We have to stop condescending to the Arab reader’
Death toll rises to 207 in central Italian quake; 15 people still missing
L'AQUILA - The death toll in Italy's earthquake has risen to 207, with 15 still missing and 178 injured, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday. The quake in central Italy has left tens of thousands homeless. (UPDATED)
Women elevating the Int’l Istanbul Film Festival
ISTANBUL -Among the female directors in the national competition of the Int’l Istanbul Film Festival, Aslı Özge and Pelin Esmer tell of Istanbulus tied to each other’s fates while San Sebastian winner Yeşim Ustaoğlu looks at isolation through a family’s broken relations
Pakistani army ends siege at police academy
LAHORE - Pakistan security forces overpower a group of gunmen who storm a police academy and unleash fierce gun battles in a commando-style raid that leaves at least 11 officers dead. The attack is reminiscent of the militant siege in the Indian city of Mumbai in November and the attack on Sri Lanka's cricketers earlier this month in Lahore
Municipal investments carry on at full throttle
ISTANBUL - Those living in or visiting Istanbul now have the chance to download a new guidebook for the city on their mobile phones. ’Pocket Book City Guide Ğ IstanBUL’ includes information about 200,000 landmarks and points of interest in the financial and cultural capital of the country
’Lycycle’ your way along the Aegean
FETHİYE - Thousands walk the Lycian Way every year and an increasing number of trekkers are starting to notice traces of bicycle treads alongside the footprints. After Seyran Sucu cycled the path to draw attention to environmental issues, the route has been rendered more accessible
’Moral leadership’ of Turkey in the Middle East, ’inactive US policy’
Alarm bells are ringing. No one expected of Israel to be delighted with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s performance at Davos anyway. So disturbance signals sent by Israel cannot be surprising. But irrespective of angles here, Israel has an extremely large "margin of pragmatism" for seeing itself facing an issue of existentialism.
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.
