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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.
Let’s accept it: Our mentality is different than EU’s
Yesterday, I wrote about a field study titled "Radicalism and Extremism Research" by Professor Yılmaz Esmer and shared my opinion on the results. According to the findings, Turkish people do not want neighbors who do not believe in God (75 percent), who drink (72 percent), who live out of wedlock (67 percent), who are Jews (64 percent), who are Christians (52 percent) and who are an American family (43 percent).
PM Erdoğan has to be consistent to be credible
Prime Minister Erdoğan has a peculiar habit. He sets high targets with his various initiatives, outbursts or statements and then fails to meet those targets himself. We have seen this in Ankara’s efforts at rapprochement with Armenia, as well as his angry remarks against Israeli President Shimon Peres at Davos.
’Erdoğan’s words are important step’
ATHENS -Despite negative reactions from opposition parties, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s definition of the expulsion of ethnic identities from Turkey as a "fascist approach" was found to be positive by some. Many Greeks who were born in Turkey but moved to Greece found Erdoğan’s words a "very important step."
’Poetry is like a surgical procedure: Brief, precise’
ISTANBUL-’I'm afraid of words,’ says Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, one of the guests at this year's International Istanbul Poetry Festival. The event, taking place at various locations, features poetry readings, including one by Barghouti tonight
Tough times for the Turkish people working in US
ISTANBUL - People who have working permits to work in the United States are pushed aside, as the federal government is urging companies to prioritize US citizens when seeking to hire new employees. Some 300,000 Turkish citizens who are working in the US are feeling the pain of joblessness as the gap between citizens and non-citizens continues to grow further
Women beat the odds in crisis in Turkey
ISTANBUL - Gender and education differences have emerged from Turkey's record unemployment figures, according to a report by the Center for Economic and Social Research. It shows more women are finding jobs while men with low education have borne the brunt of record-high job losses
Identities forged on battleground
ISTANBUL - While April 25 will see thousands of Australians and New Zealanders once more descend on Gallipoli to be present at this year’s Anzac Day ceremony, the real memory of this horrific campaign lies forever silently entrenched along the ridges and shores of this significant peninsula.
