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’Civilian oversight over security forces is weaker’
ISTANBUL - ’Almanac Turkey 2006-2008: Security Sector and Democratic Oversight’ focuses on information about the security sector as a whole in Turkey and aims to accumulate information for civilian surveillance of the sector. Funded partially by the European Commission, the almanac includes an extensive scan of documents and legislation.
Ofer Ailesi, New York’un ‘en pahalı daire’ rekorunu kırdı
Galataport projesi olarak bilinen Karaköy Limanı’nın yeniden yapım ve işletmesine ilişkin ihaleyi kazanan konsorsiyumdaki Royal Caribbean Cruises’in sahibi olan Ofer Grubu’nun New York Manhattan’da yaptırdığı binada çatı katı bir daire, tam 45 milyon (61.6 trilyon lira) dolar rekor fiyatla satıldı. Bundan önce bir lüks daire için ödenen rekor fiyat 44 milyon dolar ile Avustralyalı medya devi Robert Murdoch’a aitti.
Bilimin Işığı Köy Okullarında
Sabancı Vakfı’nın toplumsal gelişmeye katkıda bulunan “sıra dışı kişilerin olağanüstü öykülerini” anlattığı “Fark Yaratanlar” programı altıncı sezonunda da devam ediyor. Altıncı sezonun beşinci Fark Yaratan’ı ‘Bilimin Işığı Sarsın Okulları’ projesi ile Fen Bilimleri öğretmeni Şenol Yıldız oldu.
No breakthrough from Obama’s Russia summit
MOSCOW - While the US president ends his keynote visit to Moscow and arrives in Italy for the G-8 summit, his two-day meeting yields no stunning progress as the two ex-Cold War enemies remain at odds on various disputed issues. After the Russia trip, he joins fellow world leaders for the G-8 meet where the global crisis, climate change and world hunger top agenda.
Turk banks’ profit rally to slow down
ISTANBUL - As the Central Bank hints that the latest interest rate cut in June may be the last one, banking sector’s profitability may be negatively impacted. With 5 billion liras in profits in the first quarter, banks are expected to obtain less revenue from Treasury securities they hold in the second quarter.
Needed: medium-term economic leadership
If there was any lingering belief in the “bypass” school of Turkish economics, Wednesday’s news should put an end to it. Contrary to the prime minister’s optimism, the official statistics from the first quarter of the year are in. Turkey’s GDP slid almost 14 percent, the biggest quarterly slump in at least 60 years, a number dwarfing the government’s official forecast of a 3.6 percent contraction this year.
Sisters plan to meet at the Wimbledon final
WIMBLEDON, England - Sisters Venus and Serena may be planning to stage an all-Williams final at Wimbledon, but they need to prevail as winners in their semifinal clashes against solid Russian players in Dinara Safina and Elena Dementieva, who are both eyeing their first Grand Slam victories. Titleholder Venus is the slight favorite of the final four, and says she feels invincible
Duman sets the stage on fire, Bosphorus up in smoke
ISTANBUL - As part of a series of events organized in support of the band’s latest dual album, Turkish rock band Duman (Smoke) performs a concert Saturday night at Turkcell Kuruçeşme Arena. Following a couple of songs from the new albums, lead singer Kaan Tangöze’s voice begins to crack and takes the form of his much loved arabesque tone.
To scrap or not to scrap health plan for the poor
ANKARA - More than 30 percent of the poorest people of working age do not have any kind of health coverage and nearly 20 percent of the entire population has no coverage. The future of a program that provides access to health care for the poorest strata of society is being pondered.