It is a cliché to say “a photo tells a thousand words” but it is true most of the time. Does this photo taken when the doors opened after talks between Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian host Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin tell anything positive and promising to you? A face-to-face or “restricted
Have you ever heard of the word “netiquette”? If you haven’t, hear me out. Learn it. Because, especially these days, we need to learn it and play by its rules… “Netiquette” is the “net” version of etiquette — it’s good manners for the internet. Yes, there’s an etiquette to the virtual world too. As our
Only a mere 21.7 percent of the Turkish population is satisfied with their living standards, according to recent survey by MetroPOLL, which also highlighted a correlation between satisfaction and political choices. Responds to the survey’s key question, “Are you satisfied with your life standard?”, vastly varied among voters of different political parties, with some 41
Murat Yetkin President Tayyip Erdoğan is scheduled to discuss the Syria and Idlib crisis with Russian President Vladimir Putin on 5 March in Moscow. Before this contact, there is more news that the forces affiliated with the Bashar Assad regime were attacking Turkish troops around Idlib, and that a U.S. delegation including the U.N. Permanent
Nuri Çolakoğlu I’ve been watching the news and debates on TV, reading reports and comments on the internet for weeks. Of course, the agenda is invariably Idlib. But when I try to understand the issue and solve the equation, I see that the most crucial point is overlooked: an undying longing of 200 years. I’ll
My Dining Inspection Rules In this first article I want to describe some of my rules: The restaurant has been never informed about our presence or about the article. Standard service has been received like any other person. There is no preliminary preparation. Otherwise the article would not be fair. The food eaten is always
Murat Yetkin As tension in the Middle East escalated further after Turkish F-16s downed two Syrian Su-24 jets on the Syrian territory on March 1, President Donald Trump sends a key figure of his administration to Turkey ahead of Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on March 5. Kelly
Utku Perktaş The World Health Organization (WHO) released a “Disease-X ” warning some time ago. Disease-X: The name sounds like it’s come straight out horror scenarios in sci-fi movies but it real. It’s classified within the same category as other respiratory diseases such as Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever disease, Ebola, MERS, and SARS. According to
Selva Demiralp Turkish growth figures that were released on Feb. 28 indicate that the fourth quarter growth was 6 percent while the annual growth rate for 2019 as a whole was 0.9 percent. When we take a look at the components of growth, we note that the driving forces were consumption and public spending. The