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The cracked glass
I was mistaken. I had calculated that with the arrival of summer and the start of school holidays, traffic jams would ease in big cities, especially in Istanbul and Ankara. It has turned out otherwise. For some reason or other, or maybe due to economic difficulties, people didn't rush to holiday resorts, preferring to stay both in Istanbul and Ankara. On top of all, due to road repair work traffic jams have become worse than in the winter months.
Ayşe Hatun konser ver
Harbi harbi olmuş. Bu kadın artık olmuş. Çakması makması değil, bizatihi kendisi olmuş. Ayşe Hatun Önal’dan bahsediyorum elbette. Yeni albümünü dinliyor musunuz? Satar mı bilemem, ama kendimi geçtim, müzik zevkine güvendiğim kim varsa 10 üzerinden 10 puan veriyor. Üstelik düzenlemeler hariç her şeyini kendisi yapmış Sustuysam’ın.
2013’ten 2014’e; ‘Türk modeli’
Geride bıraktığımız 2013 yılına, ‘islam ve demokrasinin bir arada yaşayabileceğinin en güçlü örneği’ olarak tanımlanan ‘Türk modeli’nin yaşadığı sarsıntısı damgasını vurdu. “Stratejik Derinlik” kitabıyla daha bakan olmadan ünü buralara kadar yayılan Ahmet Davutoğlu’nun Dışişleri Bakanlığı ile başlayan diplomasi baharı umutlandırmıştı. Ancak birbiri ardına tekrar edilen hatalar zinciri, 2014’te diplomasideki umutları hayli zayıflattı.
Turkey’s ’multi-centered’ foreign policy
Some columnists such as Erdal Şafak and Taha Akyol see the new Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu as an extraordinary minister and praise him every chance they have. So do I see Davutoğlu as an important academic, a humble but principled personality and a man of patience, and I remember his always-smiling eyes.
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.
A new slogan: Oil for peace
That the search for commodities and the sharing of derived wealth is a source of war, conflict and misery is hardly a new story. The "Punic Wars" launched by Carthage in antiquity, the conquest of the Americas after 1500 and the misery of much of the Middle East today are ample examples to prove the point.
The many eras of Eurovision
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
America’s difficult export commodity: democracy
President George W. Bush tried to sell it by a strategy of aggression. Unsurprisingly, he failed. Now there is a new man at the helm who wants to sell the same commodity to far away markets of Arabia, not by force, but by what pundits call the "mellow doctrine."