Turkey‘s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during the Global Alcohol Policy Symposium in Istanbul April 26, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
For a healthy generation, grandfather suggested me to drink ayran: Erdoğan
from Hurriyet Daily News
Turkish PM Erdoğan explained why he branded the salty beverage as the national drink.
Turkish PM vows harsh action against alcohol
from Hurriyet Daily News
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed today to introduce new measures in the fight against
Turkey’s leader hits a nerve over country’s “national drink”
from Yahoo news
By Jonathon Burch ANKARA (Reuters) – If you are looking for one sure way to split public opinion in Turkey, just bring up the word alcohol. That is what Turkey’s often divisive prime minister did late on Friday when he pronounced that the national drink was not beer, nor the aniseed spirit raki – choice tipple of Turkey’s founding father – but the non-alcoholic yoghurt drink ayran
Rakı to become ?national drink? if European body accepts it
from Hurriyet Daily News
Turkey?s Traditional Alcoholic Beverage Producers Association (GİSDER) applied to European
Ayran vs. Beer: A Photo That Erdogan Wouldn’t Like to See
from The Istanbulian by Emre Kızılkaya
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan started yet another polemic by saying that “Turkey’s national drink is ayran, not beer.”
His critics are forming the anti-ayran front now.
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A Workers? Lunchtime Paradise Lost
from Istanbul Eats by admin
In the realm of Turkey?s small businesses, the esnaf lokantası (tradesmen?s restaurant) hovers above everything like a uniting holy spirit. A good one certainly is divine in nature. Take just about any old esnaf lokantası, and you?re sure to encounter a community that only exists at that particular spot on earth.
End of Empire: The New Ottoman Archive
from Kamil Pasha by Jenny White
Main gate of the old Ottoman Archive, 11 March 2013. Photo by Michael Christopher Low. From jadaliyya.com.
Three graduate students in Ottoman history have written an impassioned review of the new Ottoman archive that has just opened its doors in Istanbul?s Kağıthane neighborhood on April 22.
Photos reveal child heroes of Turkey in times of war
from Hurriyet Daily News
The Atatürk Research Center (ATAM) in Ankara opened the doors of its photo archive to mark April 23, Children?s Day
Posters promote Turkish tourism abroad
from Hurriyet Daily News
Visual materials used by the Culture and Tourism Ministry to promote Turkey
17 percent of Turkish population obese, report shows
from Hurriyet Daily News
Seventeen percent of the Turkish population aged 15 and older is obese..
Turkey?s kid population to drop significantly, data show
from Hurriyet Daily News
The proportion of children in respect to the total population of Turkey will fall in next four decades.
Religious Affairs Directorate to meet lighting costs of churches and synagogues
from Hurriyet Daily News
Turkey?s Directorate of Religious Affairs has kicked off a plan to meet the lighting costs of churches and synagogues
Turkish sites shortlisted for Europa Nostra program
from Hurriyet Daily News
Mardin?s St George Armenian Church and the historic city of Hasankeyf are two places from Turkey
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