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Heavyweight trio hunts for Confederations Cup
JOHANNESBURG - Brazil, Spain and Italy bring mostly full-strength squads to South Africa for the Confederations Cup that kicks off this weekend. As well as being a football carnival, the tournament will be a crucial test of South Africa's readiness for next year’s World Cup, with how infrastructure and security works being closely watched.
Brokers broken by tech advance
ISTANBUL - As advanced technology starts to dominate the Turkish financial markets, brokers, who lived through a golden age during the ’stock rush’ era of the 1990s, are not in charge anymore. With slashed incomes and worsening work conditions, brokers see a real danger of an empty, symbolic trading floor at the Istanbul Stock Exchange
Ex-governor lashes out at tax practices
ISTANBUL - Criticizing the government tax practices was only a part of former Central Bank Governor Süreyya Serdengeçti’s agenda. Tax inspections have been politicized, according to Serdengeçti, who also blasts the government for being late in implementing necessary precautions
Running for her life with nothing to lose
ISTANBUL - Rock singer Aylin Aslım has a new album and little tolerance for nonsense. She says she’s ’still not in that accept-everything stage. I hope I never get there.’ With a concert this Wednesday in Istanbul premiering her third album in stores next month, Aslim’s songs have earned acceptance from some 200,000 listeners online
Obama aces test by local students
ISTANBUL-One word: Approachable. US President Barack Obama speaks with Turkish university students and answers their questions in an intimate town hall-style meeting during his second day in Istanbul. ’This attitude is something a Turk is not used to,’ one student says
NATO chief says Roj TV could be shut down if links to PKK proved
ISTANBUL - Newly appointed NATO chief, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Monday that Denmark-based Roj TV station could be closed down if it is proved that it has connections with the terrorist organization PKK. (UPDATED)
Turkey’s Greeks take to stage: ’A Thorn in My Bed’
ISTANBUL -The Rum minority of Istanbul has a very active cultural group, the Feriköy Art and Culture Lovers Association that was officially established in 1989. Before that, it was an amateur theatrical group that produced many plays. There are a number of theories about the Rum community’s Bakla Horani, meaning ’I ate bakla,’ festival in Istanbul, with some believing that it only began in the 1830s although others suggest it dates back to the rather sybaritic rites of ancient Greek city-states and Rome
Virtuoso turns over a new beat
ISTANBUL - By turns classical and popular-folk, harpist Şirin Pancaroğlu’s new album with Israeli percussionist Yinon Muallem feels like a tide rising and falling between continents and musical styles. On the Anatolian song "Kervan," her lyric harp rises like Sandro Botticelli’s "The Birth of Venus," accompanied by foreboding sea drums.
Turkey to donate $50 million additional assistance to Gaza: FM
Turkey plans to donate $50 million additional assistance to Gaza, Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan told Monday at an international conference in Egypt.International donors' meeting pledged more than $3 billion dollars help rebuild war-battered Gaza. (UPDATED)
Speaking Kurdish in the Turkish Parliament
The leader of the Democratic Society Party, or DTP, Ahmet Türk, shocked the country the other day, by speaking Kurdish in the Turkish Parliament. At a session with his parliamentary group, he reminded that Feb. 21 is celebrated as "International Mother Tongue Day," and then uttered words in his own mother tongue.
’Moral leadership’ of Turkey in the Middle East, ’inactive US policy’
Alarm bells are ringing. No one expected of Israel to be delighted with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s performance at Davos anyway. So disturbance signals sent by Israel cannot be surprising. But irrespective of angles here, Israel has an extremely large "margin of pragmatism" for seeing itself facing an issue of existentialism.
Conrad Istanbul's Kling-up through the traditional route
ISTANBUL - The Conrad Istanbul is not uniquely shaped for Istanbul, a city that architecturally is mostly populated with sharp pointed squares and rectangles. Its shape recalls the wavy roofs on fountains and over portals like those at Topkapı Palace and the Sultan Ahmet Fountain.
Business group slams gov’t policy
ISTANBUL - Criticizing the government on ’forming a relationship with the global crisis by ignoring it,’ Mustafa Koç of Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association, or TÜSİAD, says the political leadership is delaying an accord with the IMF. TÜSİAD members re-elect Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ
Turkey’s new EU chief negotiator Bingöl man claimed by Siirt
ISTANBUL - Egemen Bağış was born in 1970 in Bingöl and we might consider him to have come from there but his family lived in Siirt where his father Abdullah Bağış served as mayor. The people of Siirt claim Egemen Bağış as one of their own just as they claim Emine Erdoğan, the wife of Turkey’s prime minister.
