Turkey day and night: music, arts, books, gastronomy, movies. An enjoyable account of social and everyday life and culture of Turkey, from music and arts festivals to gastronomy, archaeology and books.
Abuse of a child in a Directorate of Religious Affairs’ Qur’an Course; a party’s vice-president receiving the Metropolitan Municipality tender; a cocaine trial related to a former president of a major association; investigation of...
A few days ago, I wrote about the danger that olive groves face. While the press was still covering the importance of the situation, we are now facing a different threat. Sensitive areas, i.e....
Early this month, I attended the meeting of Turkish IT NGOs. It is a group that gets together every month for more than a decade to maintain “solidarity in the IT sector” In the...
You may be wondering why on February 17 Turkish-speaking internet freaked out about a word that has no official translation in the English-Turkish dictionary: Geççek. That is because Turkey’s mega-pop music-star Tarkan released his...
Maybe we are not aware of it, but Turkey is a very rich country when we consider lakes and wetlands. Besides, it used to be even richer in terms of wetlands. So what happened?...
2021 Turkish export figures indicate that the share of high technology products in exports has dropped from 4 percent to 3 percent. We export more kilograms of goods but we earn less in dollars...
The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) is a non-profit cultural institution that began its activity precisely 50 years ago, in 1972. During his student years in Germany, Nejat Eczacıbaşı had attended city...
Already struggling with energy cuts and soaring prices, winter has come with snow storm and freezing conditions for Turkish public. Much of Turkey was placed under a snow storm alert by forecasters amid chaos...
Suicide of a student, murder of a women, assault to an immigrant. Turkey read these news one after another on January 11. Medical student Enes Kara committed suicide in a dormitory in Elazig, where...
One of my friends from business circles shared an interesting analysis with us yesterday. The KONDA research company complied the data they have collected in the last ten years while doing their public surveys...
