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Remembering an Ottoman grand vizier who was far ahead of his times
ISTANBUL - Grand Vizier Ali Paşa is known to have called Ahmet Vefik Paşa a 'living library' and someone who would have made a good grand vizier under Sultan Süleyman. Ahmet Vefik Paşa is remembered more for his interest and contribution to the arts than his work as a politician and sultan’s grand vizier
Court orders the arrest of colonel, tensions up
ISTANBUL - The arrest of the navy colonel for membership in an illegal organization days after military prosecutors decided there was no evidence to prove the same officer was guilty of any crime. The arrest came as top military officers were meeting with senior government ministers to discuss recent developments over army-government relations
All eyes on Gül in political standoff
ANKARA - The arrest early Wednesday of a Navy colonel is the most recent incident among many that have divided Turkey’s governing bodies and renewed tension between the AKP and the military. In the middle of it all is President Gül, whose next step might very well determine the future balance between the military and the civilian authorities
Extraordinary meetings
Turkey’s top general met yesterday morning with Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan. It was the second "extraordinary" meeting in two weeks between Erdoğan and Chief of General Staff Gen. İlker Başbuğ. According to a "tradition" established in the last months in office of former Chief of Staff Yaşar Büyükanıt, the prime minister and the top general of the country meet "regularly" on Thursdays before or after, depending on the president’s schedule, a weekly routine presidential reception of the prime minister.
Past, present, future become one in Greece
KATHIMERINI - The New Acropolis Museum opened in Athens on Sunday to visitors eager to explore its vast collection of sculptures and museum holds more than 4,000 ancient works, including the best surviving classical sculptures that once adorned the Acropolis.
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.
Bonus
Not only us, but everybody in this world has new contradictory positions regarding the global crisis. For years we were insisting on the importance of productivity. But by introducing economic encouragement packets all of us seemed to forget the meaning of productivity regarding human resources. During the last half-century radical changes have been made in education and the methodology of education for using our human resources more productively and having a brilliant, well-educated new generation. But today these brilliant people have become scapegoats of the global crisis.
Stirring the cauldron is child’s play in Turkey
Turkey’s "post-modern civil war" continues unabated. This time a document allegedly signed by a military officer has stirred the cauldron, pitting the military against the government again. The document Ğ whose authenticity is still being questioned - was published in daily Taraf, a newspaper that is building a reputation for sensational political revelations that keep the public occupied for weeks on end.
Export concepts, says OYAK chief
MARDIN - OYAK, Turkey’s leading pension fund which is active in automotive, steel, cement and energy, may ’export’the formula that made it a success over the past nine years, according to Chairman Coşkun Ulusoy. ’Imagine the name of any major private equity fund or pension fund worldwide, and I can guarantee you we are talking to them,’Ulusoy says.
All eyes on Sarıyer Attorney General’s Office on phone tapping
Doğan Media Group, or DMG, Vice President Soner Gedik paid a visit to Minister of Finance Kemal Unakıtan in his office in Ankara on January 28. The purpose of his visit was to state his objections to a portion of the report filed by a revenue officer from the Ministry of Finance on DMG accounts for the year 2002.
Slum turned into ’mega city’ awaits inhabitants
ISTANBUL - It's hard to recognize the neighborhood of Esenyurt. Having become known as the most wrecked and impoverished areas of Istanbul, the district has been turned into a city. Mayor Necmi Kadıoğlu says there are many projects on the way but they have already achieved what seemed like an impossible task as recently as five years ago