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Well-known to be effective for dealing with skin complications, glycolic acid products are very favored these days. These products come in a range of formulations, including skin creams and moisturizers, skin exfoliators, soaps, anti-aging lotions, and facial cleansers.Now, what is glycolic acid? It belonging to the group of chemicals labeled alpha-hydroxy acids, or fruit acids, [...]
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Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the newly constructed Muhsin Ertu?rul Theater in ?stanbul over the weekend, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an complained about the resistance of some circles against his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government’s efforts for the well-being of the country. He recalled how some circles reacted to the ?stanbul Municipality’s [...]
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“The tenant owns a thousand houses” is a popular Turkish expression. This must have been made only to make tenants feel better, I would say. I received an e-mail about an unscrupulous landlord and his house, plagued by a humidity problem. I will comment at the end of each paragraph to make it easier for [...]
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A tornado hit the popular Mediterranean resort town of Alanya on Monday, damaging many houses and greenhouses in the Konakl?, Payallar and Emi?beleni villages. The tornado hit a 100-meter-wide, 5-kilometer-long area on Konakl? beach. The tornado lasted for only 10 minutes, but caused damage to more than 50 greenhouses, even knocking down some of them. [...]
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News reports yesterday morning claiming that a plane had crashed into the sea just off the shore of Antalya’s Alanya district are false according to all preliminary investigations, officials say. According to the Anatolia news agency, all the fuss began when computer programmer Tuna Akar (37) called the emergency 112 and 156 hotlines, claiming that [...]
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It’s hard to know when one nation’s property market has fallen out of favour these days as the global financial crisis envelopes country after country and apparently leaves no nation’s economy untarnished. So is property in Turkey still popular or has the market boomed and gone bust? This question is being asked by Brits, Russians, [...]
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The pound has been the real victim of Britain’s recession. It has been hammered by other currencies, chipped away at by currency traders and basically totally undermined by the grim state of the UK’s economy. No one, internationally speaking, has any faith in the pound and so it has reached an all time low next [...]
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