Flights to Alanya is very easy to find because many airlines this days offers flights to popular holiday resort in Turkey and you might be able to get some good bargain deals over the internet. Make your vacation a never before experience by seizing your cheap flights to the destination of your choice and that [...]
Both Turkey and the world are still trying to recover from the shock of Israel’s brutal attack on civilians who were on board an international convoy carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. The vicious attack left nine peace activists dead and dozens of others injured. Although it is common for Israel to carry out attacks without [...]
Istanbul’s western suburbs are set to receive a further boost with the announcement of plans to build a new marina worth $16 million. Dati Investment Holding, one of Turkey’s leading development consortiums which also owns the high end Galleria shopping mall, the Crown Plaza and Istanbul’s latest 5* hotel, the Sheraton Istanbul Ataköy Hotel, intends [...]
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on the international community to punish Israel for storming a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza in an attack that left nine dead. Israel has detained or deported hundreds of activists who were on the ships which were seized en route to the Palestinian enclave which has been [...]
Republican People’s Party (CHP) Istanbul deputy Kemal Kilicdaroglu finally revealed his intentions yesterday to run for party leadership in the CHP’s upcoming general assembly. Ever since Deniz Baykal resigned in the wake of a sex scandal, there has been constant debate on the possible candidates for his post and whether Baykal could return. Many who [...]
Every 19 May in Alanya and all over the Turkey celebrates the historic arrival of Ataturk at Samsun, marking the beginning of the 1919 War of Independence. Athletes carry the Turkish flag ashore at the Samsun harbour, while memorial wreaths are laid in Anitkabir. This gets celebrated in Ankara Istanbul and Izmir Adana Turkey. Rousing ceremonies [...]
Should Deniz Baykal back to CHP? Former Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal, who resigned from party leadership after the emergence of a video that revealed his alleged affair with a CHP deputy, left many questions behind after his departure from the party. Baykal’s resignation came less than two weeks before a CHP general [...]
The talks on the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government’s constitutional reform package in Parliament are going on in a very tense environment as the deputies of the opposition and ruling parties exchange harsh words over the package’s articles. The government stands alone, as the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) [...]
As you may already know, new legislation has been passed changing the Turkish Citizenship Law. I wrote several articles earlier, and it is possible to find all articles in the online archive of Today’s Zaman. I have an interesting question which stands for a summary of several inquiries in respect to the same topic: acquisition [...]
André Greipel (HTC-Columbia) won for the third time at the Tour of Turkey today, besting Mattia Gavazzi (Colnago – CSF Inox) and Kenny Van Hummel (Skil-Shimano) in the wild field sprint deciding stage five. Despite being challenged by Colnago-CSF Inox and Skil-Shimano in the final kilometres, the German’s HTC-Columbia teammates remained unfazed and provided a [...]
The Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) reform package, which aims to raise democratic and judicial standards in Turkey to the level of those of Europe, has mostly received criticism from the opposition parties, which are supposedly in favor of Turkey’s democratization. Analysts who examine the parties’ approach to the package point to the risks, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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