ISTANBUL - With no woman to pass her the torch, Yetka Kara says people are admired for the work they make happen. Her success has been well-planned. At the age of 5 she began a path toward the opera. “As soon as I wake up I begin planning my day and my life,” said the general director and art director of the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet
ISTANBUL - Last week foreign and local artists put their brushes together to give a church wall and its neighborhood a facelift. Where graffiti once adorned the 27-meter stretch, now a collage of Kadıköy monuments remind passersby to slow down and enjoy all Kadiköy has to offer
HAKKARİ - The Hakkari deputy of the Justice and Development Party, Rüstem Zeydan, asks Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to grant members of the Democratic Society Party, or DTP, an audience. Meanwhile DTP mayors have also requested a meeting with President Abdullah Gül to discuss proposals for a possible solution to the Kurdish problem
ISTANBUL - Last week foreign and local artists put their brushes together to give a church wall and its neighborhood a facelift. Where graffiti once adorned the 27-meter stretch, now a collage of Kadıköy monuments remind passersby to slow down and enjoy all Kadiköy has to offer
HAKKARİ - The Hakkari deputy of the Justice and Development Party, Rüstem Zeydan, asks Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to grant members of the Democratic Society Party, or DTP, an audience. Meanwhile DTP mayors have also requested a meeting with President Abdullah Gül to discuss proposals for a possible solution to the Kurdish problem
Only days after the tension in Iran began to abate following mass street rallies where tens of demonstrators were killed by the security forces, now the world is witnessing another tragedy in China’s Xinjiang region, home to 8 million Uighur Turks.
İZMİR - Economic conditions and examples of foreigners renting out villas in Turkey are having a strong positive affect on Turkish villa owners, experts say. The villas once bought for investment purposes in Turkey are now ready for rent. Turkish villa owners are very quick to follow the trend with more and more Turkish people investing in rental villas.
The suggestion of the main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, for the annulment of the Provisional Article 15 of the 1982 Constitution providing an efficient judicial immunity for the leaders of the 1980 coup, as well as members of the government and the Consultative Assembly that served during the coup period would perhaps serve no meaningful purpose if the ruling Justice and Development Party, or the AKP, parliamentary majority help to legislate it. Kenan Evren and his "comrades in coup" could not be brought in front of court even if the Provisional Article 15 was annulled.