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Sacha Baron Cohen’in Arap Baharı
Hitler’in yükselişine dikkat çeken 1940 tarihli Büyük Diktatör filminden uzun yıllar sonra şimdi de Sasha Baron Cohen, Arap diktatörlerini ti’ye alıyor. Borat ve Bruno’nun yaratıcıları, bir diktatörün yönettiği Wadiya Cumhuriyeti adlı hayali bir ülkede karşımıza çıkıyorlar.
What does Bashir know too well?
Last month, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the prime minister, reminded us "what the Jews know too well." And just last week, crowds in Khartoum’s Martyrs Square were shouting loud to Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, and the Jews: "We’ve been trained to confront people like you!" A simple twist of fate? Yes Ğ if one believes in fairy tales.
Value of political links, a la Turca
The Treasury’s record tax levy against the Doğan Media Group, or DMG, managed to bypass even the Central Bank’s 1.5 percent rate cut as the shocker of last week. It is true that given the past surprises, the real surprise would have been if the Bank had cut the policy rate in line with expectations, but the Treasury still deserves some credit for stealing the show.
Mehmet Y. Yilmaz: Glimpses from Aleppo: was it love I witnessed, or something else?
I returned from Aleppo in Syria, where I had gone to watch the "friendship match" between Fenerbahce and the Syrian team "El-Ittihat," with pessimistic feelings about the future of the Middle East. My experiences in Aleppo destroyed my beliefs that the future of dictatorships in the Middle East was not very long. While I had not thought that the nearly 70,000 people shoved into a stadium in Aleppo in inhumane conditions would really "boo" the very people who had made them wait, I truly had not counted on such a show of love for those who had made them wait either.
Gülelim, güzelleşelim…
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Babam bir daha Amerika’ya dönmek istemedi
Charlie Chaplin’in büyük oğlu Michael, yıllar süren çabasının karşılığını aldı. Michael Chaplin, İsviçreli yetkililerle yaptığı uzun görüşmeler sonucunda, babasının Manoir de Ban’de bulunan ve hayatının son yıllarını geçirdiği evi müzeye dönüştürdü. Daphne Barak, 70 yaşındaki ikinci kuşak Chaplin’le o evi dolaşarak anılarda bir yolculuğa daldı.
#Charlie ChaplinBOĞAZ'DA JAMES BOND GİBİ HİSSEDİYORUM
Yarattığı Şarlo karakteriyle akıllara kazınan, sessiz sinemanın efsane ismi Charlie Chaplin’in torunu Kiera Chaplin, Çırağan Sarayı’nda düzenlenen Mango defilesinin özel konuğu olarak İstanbul’a geldi. Daha önce de pek çok kez ülkemizi ziyaret eden Chaplin, “Boğaz’dayken kendimi James Bond gibi hissediyorum” dedi.
Indonesian president poised to win second term in office
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was poised to win his second term in office on the back of recent economic and political stability, according to early returns Wednesday in the country's presidential election. An unofficial quick count of ballots sampled from 2,000 polling stations gave Yudhoyono 60 percent of the vote, which would be enough to avoid a runoff in September. He needs 50 percent of cast ballots to win in one round.
Americans high on Obama: survey
WASHINGTON - Approaching his 100th day in the White House at a time of crisis, Obama has transformed the yes-we-can spirit of his candidacy into a tool of governance, an opinion poll shows. The percentage of Americans saying the nation is headed in right direction rises to 48 percent, says the AP-GfK survey
’We’ll support you but request the PKK in return’
Baghdad- The visit of the president of the Republic of Turkey is being perceived by the Iraqis as very important. The plan for the withdrawal of the Americans has been put into effect, new elections have taken place and the new administration has begun its work.