Italy and France try to curb EU reforms from FT.com – World, Europe Italy and France are making headway in a campaign to soften the potential impact of the most ambitious reforms of the eurozone’s budget rules since the euro’s creation in 1999, according to European diplomats and policymakers MAIN FOCUS: Merkel steps up integration … Read more
update: no releases today Defense in Kurdish marks first day of KCK trial Today’s Zaman Security experts say he is responsible for the close ties between the KCK and the Ergenekon terrorist organization, a clandestine gang that had planned to Alleged members of KCK, Urban wing of PKK, are on trial today. Many elected mayors … Read more
“Worship site” Young CHP members did not like the above piece of art and attacked the exhibition, destroyed the artifact… Young CHP members raid exhibition Today’s Zaman A group of young men, allegedly members of the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) youth branches, raided an art exhibition in İstanbul’s Beşiktaş Square on Lonely imam singular worshipper … Read more
photo via By being elected as Saadet Party’s leader again at 84, Necmettin Erbakan demolishes his own political heritage. If he is healthy it may be all right, but he is having difficulties in walking, talking and even breathing and he is now into active politics. A few years ago, the President pardoned him for … Read more
What currency wars mean for the eurozone by Centre for European Reform By Simon Tilford The dollar has now fallen to $1.40 against the euro. This is still below the low of almost $1.60 that it reached in the middle in July 2008, but it represents a steep decline from under $1.20 in early June. … Read more
From(L-R) Turkey’s Industry and Trade Minister Nihat Ergun, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek, State Minister Zafer Caglayan, Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Ali Babacan, State Minister Cevdet Yilmaz and Labour Minister Omer Dincer attend a news conference in Ankara October 11, 2010. Babacan said the government would adhere to fiscal discipline and would not overspend … Read more
Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-10-17 1- A video: Turkish Porn Star Şahin K?s comedy film trailer 2- Elif: Aşk-ı Memnu: Forbidden love killed a woman and injured the rest 3- A video: ?UBRIVO ? PORNO STAR 4- Noam Chomsky in Istanbul 5- Turkish TV series, a threat to conservative imaginations 6- Semih Kaplanoğlu, … Read more
… with a supposedly radical content, with new columnists, new size…. I am not sure if the daily will provide more radical and provocative content than Taraf daily already brings. However, based on the new columnist list, there might be more academic substance in the content… here is an ad of new Radikal http://vimeo.com/15851724 and … Read more
Eurasia Marathon to close roads in Istanbul on Sunday Hurriyet Daily News With some 100000 people expected to run from Asia to Europe and through central parts of Istanbul on Sunday, the city will see a variety of road closures Beyoglu: A Soho in the Heart of Istanbul Intelligent Travel from National Geographic Traveler Magazine … Read more
Turkey wants Israeli apology for fatal raid from Yahoo news TURKEY’S prime minister has again accused Israel of “state terrorism” and called on the Jewish state to apologise and compensate victims of a raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. The Canadian Press: Turkish PM describes Israel flotilla raid “state terrorism,” demands apology ABDULLAH BOZKURT – … Read more
Irkçılığa ve Milliyetçiliğie DurDe [No to racism and nationalism] initiative continues to select the racist of the month in Turkey. August winner is the bureucrats that prepared the State’s defense for the Hrant Dink Trial at ECHR. September winner is the script writers of Valley of the Wolves. [The initiative has only pages in Turkish…]
The Original Pirate: See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/41138 Next leak, next week, from Wikileaks? What’s expected: 400,000 US Army docs from Iraq from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Reports are circulating that WikiLeaks will release close to 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War next week. Once again, this would become the … Read more
Mesut Özil and Angela Merkel via Last Friday, Turkey played against Germany which had gained the third place in the latest World Cup in South Africa. Under normal circumstances, Turkey was expected to play offensive and harsh, however things did not go that way. The squad on the pitch was not efficient enough to surpass … Read more
Istanbul gets a new and ambitious reserch university project. A few weeks ago Istanbul Şehir University was officially opened. Several of my friends with great academic credentials begin to teach there. In some respects, this new university reminds me the early years of Bilgi U as it hired so many free spirited academicians. However, we … Read more