ISTANBUL - Among many international contributions to the Washington Monument, a gilded marble tablet from Sultan Abdülmecid was placed on the Washington Monument in 1855, a gift referenced by the US president during his address in Parliament on Monday. An inscription on it says ’So as to strengthen the friendship between the two countries’.
I don’t recognize Erdoğan anymore. I don’t consider myself a real "Erdoğan expert." He was never a person I knew well in the past. But as a political observer I encountered a totally different Erdoğan during the first term of the administration. He used to be a leader who listened to people and looked them in the eye when they said something different or took notes when he heard something interesting.
General Electric said on Thursday it will look to spin off to shareholders its entire consumer and industrial unit, signaling it is ready to part with a much larger slice of its portfolio than just the 7 billion dollars appliance arm it has been seeking to sell.
Main opposition leader Deniz Baykal, of the Republican People's (CHP) Party, has announced that he will be sending a cadre of MPs from the CHP to the home in Thessaloniki where Ataturk was born. The announcement from Baykal comes in the wake of this week's controversy after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on a visit to Ataturk's birth home in northern Greece, ripped a page of writing out of the guest book on display there for visitors to sign. Prime Minister Erdogan defended his actions, saying that the writing had been marked by heavy insults and profanity, and that it had no place in a guest book at Ataturk's home in Thessaloniki.