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Standard & Poor’s cut the outlook on Turkey’s ‘BB’ sovereign credit rating to stable from positive on Tuesday, saying risks to its creditworthiness had risen as a result of its high debt and worsening terms of trade as demand for its exports weakens. Reuters news agency said, data on Tuesday showed Turkey’s exports fell 2.9 [...]
In a recent play in Turkey, two actors wore trench coats in their role as assassins posing as perverts planning to flash girls near a school. The scene and its themes of nudity and sexual depravity are at the center of a debate over freedom of expression in Turkish arts, where the Islamic-rooted ruling party [...]
Turkish authorities have confirmed that an ancient bible thought to be 1,500 years old is being kept safe after being seized from a gang of smugglers. The document is in Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ, written in gold Syriac characters on leather pages loosely bound together with string. It was part of a haul [...]
The Duchess of York faces 22 years in jail after a Turkish court pressed charges against her for secretly filming in an orphanage. The charges relate to an undercover documentary Sarah Ferguson made with ITV in 2008 to expose ‘appalling’ conditions in state run institutions. Her younger daughter, Princess Eugenie, controversially accompanied her mother on [...]
In a world of economic uncertainty and fluctuating markets, investor decisions have become increasingly fragile particularly in the property sector. Now we are in 2012, it is important to look upon current trends and utilise market knowledge to assess this year’s global property market. In this exclusive video, co-founders of Property Frontiers David Cox and [...]
Turkey’s prime minister on Sunday welcomed efforts toward reconciliation between the rival Palestinian factions during a meeting with the Hamas premier of the Gaza Strip, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported. Ismail Haniyeh is on an official tour of the Muslim world, his first trip outside the blockaded territory since the Islamist group took over Gaza [...]
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Turkish warplanes killed at least 35 people in an air strike in southeastern Turkey near the Iraqi border overnight, apparently mistaking smugglers for Kurdish militants, a pro-Kurdish party and local officials said on Thursday. Turkish warplanes strike militant targets regularly in the region in their battle against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas, and have stepped [...]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey’s ambassador to France Tahsin Burcuoglu has been recalled after the acceptance by the French parliament of a bill criminalizing the denial of a so-called Armenian genocide in the years leading to the downfall of the Ottoman Empire. Erdo?an told a press conference after his meeting with [...]
Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, or simply “Santa”, is a figure with legendary, historical, and folkloric aspects who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24. The modern figure [...]
World’s first triple limb transplant
A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday performed the world’s first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said. At the same time, a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, transplanted the face of the same donor onto another [...]
One of the fat-soluble vitamins, vitamin D constitutes two major forms which are vitamin D2 or ergocalciferol and vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol. Vitamin D2 is synthesised by plants whilst vitamin D3 is synthesised by the body. Vitamin D is naturally present in a number of food sources and dietary supplements, and is also manufactured with [...]
If you love eggs and omlette style lunch or quick meals this is for you because its love calorie and tasty and good for you. You can cut calories by using only egg whites (17 calories each) instead of whole eggs (about 70 calories each). We actually prefer the taste of using only egg whites. [...]
Kebab ( or kabab, kabob, kebap) is a wide variety of meat dishes originating in Persia and later on adopted by the Middle East, Turkey and Asia Minor, and now found worldwide. In North American English, kebab with no qualification generally refers more specifically to shish kebab served on the skewer. In the Middle East, [...]