The Veil

Haluk Bilginer, Elisabeth Moss ile aynı dizide

Altın Küre ödüllü Amerikalı oyuncu Elisabeth Moss’un hem yapımcılığını üstlendiği hem de başrolünde yer aldığı “The Veil” (Peçe) adlı dizinin çekimleri Türkiye’de yapıldı. Çekimleri İstanbul ve Niğde’de gerçekleşen dizide usta oyuncu Haluk Bilginer de rol aldı.

Reunion in Cappadocia

If you look at the map today, you can see quite a big distance between the Macedonian region in Greece and Cappadocia in Turkey.

You’ve got mail, your excellency! (I)

"Foreign ministers are not, as a rule, the principal architects of foreign policy but they are, frequently, the principal foreign policy advisers in relation to the governmental decision process, hence strategically placed for exercising influence over that process."

Ottowoman’s veil lifted in portraits

ANKARA -Painter Reyyan Somuncuoğlu's collection 'Ottowoman' lifts the veil off the Ottoman harem in an exhibition and reveals the strong and self-confident women of the age. Ankara's Erenus Art Gallery is hosting 16 new harem portraits from Somuncuoğlu.

Paris set to compensate victims of its nuke tests

PARIS - Following years of denial, Paris decides to compensate those who suffered due to its nuclear testing in various locations. France carried out 17 nuclear tests in Algeria in February 1966 including four atmospheric trials in the Sahara of southern Algeria, while more than 193 tests took place near the French Polynesian islands of Mururoa

Unveiling a simple matter, or hidden in cultural codes

ISTANBUL - How do the religious and secular communities regard women in public who remove their veils? A few public examples prompt the question about what it is like for a woman to remove her veil, especially those without support to do so at home. The Daily News canvassed female sociologists and columnists on all sides of the debate.

Unveiling a simple matter, or hidden in codes

ISTANBUL - How do the religious and secular communities regard women in public who remove their veils?

Unveiling a simple matter, or hidden in codes

ISTANBUL - How do the religious and secular communities regard women in public who remove their veils?

PM supports CHP’s initiative on headscarf

ANKARA - The realization that different beliefs and dress styles exist in Turkey is a good development, says Erdoğan, before praising the opposition CHP’s leader Baykal. There could be some negative reactions to Baykal’s initiative, but he should remain firm, notes PM Erdoğan

Veiled democracy!

In history, headgear was a "tradition" enforced by other monotheistic religions as well as Islamic culture, although in our time covering the head with a piece of cloth, its shape, type and form may vary, in Jewish and Christian cultures has become rather exceptional.

CHP and the veil

Main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, leader Deniz Baykal is engaged nowadays in some extraordinary practices. He is enlisting women in black chadors as members of the CHP, personally fixing the pin of the CHP onto their chadors and delivering statements that if delivered by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, he would lambasted as confessing the secret agenda of the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP.

Lehman files for bankruptcy, plans to sell units

Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, after trying to finance too many risky assets with too little capital, making it the largest and highest-profile casualty of the global credit crisis.

French minister says burqa is a prison

Women who wear burqas live in a prison, a French minister said in an interview Wednesday, after a Moroccan woman who wears the head-to-toe Islamic veil was denied French citizenship.

Greek Cypriot press hails relaunch of reunification talks

The Greek Cypriot press gave a broad welcome on Saturday to the relaunch of efforts to reunify the divided island although Turkish Cypriot newspapers warned against raising hopes too high after past disappointments.

Greek Cypriot press hails relaunch of reunification talks

The Greek Cypriot press gave a broad welcome on Saturday to the relaunch of efforts to reunify the divided island although Turkish Cypriot newspapers warned against raising hopes too high after past disappointments.

Is wearing the veil a ‘mission’?

A recent column in the Islamic press saying that covered-up women are charged with a mission and therefore should not hold hands with a member of the opposite sex, chew gum or smoke in public places has added fuel to the fire of an ongoing debate about the meaning of the burqa.

Hollywood'da bir Türk

Oktay Eksi: Intention Should Also Be Right

Seyahat belki beni de derviş kılar

Kanada'dan ABD'ye göç eden Türk yazar

Game Of Thrones oyuncusu Diana Rigg Young hayatını kaybetti! Diana Rigg Young kimdir?

Game Of Thrones dizisinde Olenna Tyrell karakteri ile yer alan ünlü aktrist Diana Rigg Young, 83 yaşında hayatını kaybetti. James Bond gibi önemli yapımlarda boy gösteren Diana Rigg Young kariyeri boyunca birçok ödüle layık görülmüştü. Peki, Diana Rigg Young kimdir ve dizilerde ve filmlerde oynadı? İşte, o detaylar

Kaosa devam: Into the Badlands

AMC kanın ve kaosun tadını aldı, ne kadar kanlı ve kaos ortamında geçen dizi varsa peş peşe ekrana sürüyor. Furya “Walking Dead” ile başladı, peşinden “Hell on Wheels” geldi, “Fear the Walking Dead” bu akımın yenilerinden biri olurken “Into the Badlands” serinin son halkası oldu. Şimdilik…

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Oh la la! İşte Paris’te moda

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Kanada’nın kültür potası Toronto

Yaz gelip de günler uzayınca Toronto’nun güzellikleri ortaya çıkıyor. Farklı kültürlerin özelliklerini koruyarak yan yana yaşadığı bu şehirdeki 18’inci yüzyıl binaları fabrikasından, evine özenle korunmuş. Müzeleri, konser salonları kültürel etkinliklerde iddialı. Çevresindeki doğal güzellikler ise görülmeye değer.