A very suspicious fire broke at the historical Haydarpaşa Train Station… Fire breaks out in Istanbul’s historical train station from Hurriyet Dailynews Fire broke out Sunday in the historical Haydarpaşa train station on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, private channel NTV reported. http://twitter.com/ozuckan/statuses/8888922897653760 http://twitter.com/atilganbayar/statuses/8910252992897024 http://twitter.com/atilganbayar/statuses/8894377921351680 http://twitter.com/atilganbayar/statuses/8894094025687040 http://twitter.com/atilganbayar/statuses/8892427637100544 ODATV'de az sonra Haydarpaşa yangınını AKP ile ilişkilendiren … Read more
Intentional or not, earlier explosion saved lives. Taksim Square is always a crowded place in most of the hours of the day. Sunday early morning hours were probably the least crowded time. Most of Turkish media quickly blamed PKK and a group inside that organization may really be responsible but we do not know yet. … 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
In this Aug 18, 2010 file photo a cat lays on top of a table in a cafe in Istanbul, Turkey. Many a visitor to Turkey has noted the abundance of stray cats in the old imperial capital of Istanbul. They amble and lounge around some mosques and have the run of a couple of … Read more
The hot and humid air does not leave Istanbul. It did sink onto us. When I go out of my office and walk to the parking long, I smell something very similar. Sort of nostalgia emerges. I remember my days in Houston, TX. This is the same smell, same weather and that’s the only good thing about the weather….
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Time shows us, we are getting crowded and bigger in social media more than our real life. But also we have to convince others who are not aware of us and cyberculture about being real. Starbucks can make everyone mayor in these days So many social bookmarking websites, platforms and forums are organizing meetups. They … Read more
UNESCO denied a report by the semi-official Anatolian Agency that Istanbul will be kept on the World Heritage List.
Historical Galata Tower is seen in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Turkey is facing the constant threat of a killer quake but even after the deaths of over 18,000 people in western Turkey in 1999 it has focused on rescuing people in the aftermath of an earthquake rather than implementing stricter building codes and punishing those who infringe them, a parliamentary report concludes. Experts predict that Turkey, crissed crossed by active fault lines, could be hit by a major earthquake in the next 30 years that could devastate Istanbul and cause thousands of deaths.? Read more » (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
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President Gül shares a cup of tea with İstanbul locals
Today’s Zaman
President Abdullah Gül spent some time with locals in İstanbul’s Tarabya neighborhood yesterday and chatted with them while drinking tea. …
will probably be updated;) Güneş, Ali and Burak are my concert buddies. A fine moment: Video: Manowar’s Joey Demaio speaks Turkish Video: an 8 minute high quality Metallica video can be found here. Radikal’s review of Rammstein… Happy Erkan. I have finally watched Slayer, Manowar, Megadeth and Anthrax live for the first time. I have … Read more
Thrash Metal on Wikipedia Today is the very big day. Sonisphere festival the 3rd day brings us the 4 big thrash metal bands (Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth) together on the stage. Anthrax begins at 16.15 and I will leave home soon to start the last day. Well, I am quite with the first two days … Read more
[I would advise my readers to check back this post frequently] update: 3 May 2010- 13:00 Famous actors Halil Ergün, Cem Özer, Tarık Akan had also attended the event. Habervesaire has published a good photo galery here. Another gallery here. Turkish Anarchists’ photos here. Linux users were there, too: “Free Software for a Free World” … Read more
The Brazilian death metal giants, Sepultura, is performing tomorrow night in Istanbul. I don’t particularly like death metal but this band deserves a special place in the history of heavy metal. This will be the first time I will be watching them live.
Most ‘desired’ Turkish woman: AskMen Turkey chose Tuba Büyüküstün, a recently famed actress, as the most desired woman… Hürriyet has her huge photo album here. the Pacific. We have a problem. Turks are a bit annoyed with the new TV series’ reference to İzmir Fires where Turks are accused of starting the fire… Metin Şentürk, … Read more
Our dean, Prof. Nezih Erdoğan directed a short documentary.It will be shown in santralistanbul on 17 February. Facebook event site here. Info in Turkish: Tarih: 17 Şubat 2010 Çarşamba Saat: 17:00 Yer: Santral Kampüsü, E1-301 Yapımını ve yönetimini İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dekanı Prof. Dr. Nezih Erdoğan?ın üstlendiği İstanbul Do/Redo/Undo: Sular, Sokaklar, Suratlar videosunun … Read more
Started the day with brunch at La Mekan (I will definitely post about this place) with Can. It is just in walking distance to our apartment. To start the day there always makes me happy. It satisfies my quest for a good diner like I used to have in Houston. Then I moved to santralistanbul to my office and spent the day until evening there. Youth Studies Unit was having a hip hop workshop with high school kids, otherwise I haven’t seen any colleagues and I did hang out in my office alone. No one would complain of loud music. How nice. I got tired of longer hair and had an haircut in our campus hairdresser, now I am as if I have just come from the Service, then I had more coffee and did some more work and when it was around 8 pm as no body was left in the building, I began to feel self-pity and it was time to leave.
Then the second and more colorful part of my day began: Thanks to Çiğdem Buğdaycı, I first stopped by a small art galery in Cihangir: Çukurcumart. Not always but on some Saturdays there are Jam sessions there. We attended one yesterday. We were offered super quality wine, warm, cinnamon, juicy..
Here a few drawings exhibited in the gallery (more can be found in the Facebook page:
