Zorlu Enerji Grubu Başkanı Murat Sungur Bursa, İsrail’de yüzde 25 paya sahip oldukları Dorad Doğalgaz Çevrim Santralı’nın yapımını ABD’li Wood Group’a devrettiklerini açıkladı ve “İsrail’in sivil topluma yönelik girişimlerinin Türk kamuoyunda oluşturduğu hassasiyet günlerinde ‘gözümüzü kâğıt bürümüş’ tavrı vermekten endişe ettik” dedi.
ISTANBUL - Eating pizza on the Bosphorus is not considered traditional or noble in Istanbul. Yet the Doors Restaurant Group is changing this notion by introducing their new restaurant chain called Pizzeria Mama, which opened one month ago in the heart of the Rumeli Hisarı district
ISTANBUL - Grand Vizier Ali Paşa is known to have called Ahmet Vefik Paşa a 'living library' and someone who would have made a good grand vizier under Sultan Süleyman. Ahmet Vefik Paşa is remembered more for his interest and contribution to the arts than his work as a politician and sultan’s grand vizier
FETHİYE - Kumluova, a small municipality on the main road between Fethiye and Kalkan, appears to have taken over the regional lead in tomato production. A festival is held in town celebrating the tomato crop, hoping to raise money for the unfinished building of a school.
ISTANBUL - Competing at the Eurovision Song Contest since 1975, Turkey has brought up the rear with an operetta, taken the stage with a song dedicated to petrol during an oil crisis and won by singing in English. This year the voting system has been changed and the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review takes a closer look at this continent-wide event through interviews with former jury members, Turkish Radio and Television Association, or TRT, officials and diehard fans
President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan must be fuming over remarks by a top judge who reminded them that in democracies being elected or having an outstanding parliamentary majority cannot give absolute power to a political personality or group to change everything the way that person or group likes, in any fashion they prefer because in democracies all powers are restricted.
GENEVA - New boycotts by Western nations raise concerns over the credibility of a UN conference in Geneva as Australia and the Netherlands also declare that they will boycott the meeting like the United States, Canada, and Israel amid fears that it will serve as a platform against Israel.
ANKARA - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s anger lately has been focused on Hürriyet columnist Bekir Coşkun, who is known as Turkey’s greatest opposition writer. Not surprisingly, Coşkun has not been intimidated and has been criticizing what he sees as the government's wrongdoings . Through humor and his skill with words, Coşkun has held his ground firmly and has provided his readers with many fun-to-read articles.