If you are a long-time follower of the Turkish blogosphere you will have undoubtedly heard about the Turkish ban on WordPress….and the periodic bans on YouTube, and on the social-networking widget site Slide, oh..and now on Dailymotion as well. I think that is all.. Isn’t it? It is hard to keep track now-a-days and frustrating. […]
Three Arrested in Connection with Turkish Girls’ Dormitory Collapse
Posted by Anne Szustek to findingDulcinea.com Three administrators of a girls’ dormitory near the central Turkish city of Konya are being held for “causing death through negligence” after the building’s collapse killed 18 residents. School headmaster Hüseyin Çömlek, deputy headmaster Mehmet Semerci, and Mehmet Göktas, the head of the foundation that built the dormitory, the Balcilar […]
Al-Qaida Drawing Foreign Fighters into Afghanistan
Posted by Anne Szustek to findingDulcinea.com According to militants and foreign policy experts, the Islamist terrorist group is building up its forces with dissidents from historically secular Turkey and the countries of Central Asia. The religious traditions of the Turkic peoples are steeped in Sufi mysticism based in the Hanafi school of Islam. Today, press […]
Armenia: April 24 – Genocide Memorial Day
– by Onnik Krikorian Yesterday marked the 93rd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocideand the deaths of approximately 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. Often described as the first Genocide of the 20th Century, the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin invented the term in the 1940s with the Armenian and Jewish Holocausts in mind. Every year on 24 April, a date marking […]
Japan Sings Turkish National Anthem to Celebrate Pangea Day
Leading film-makers are seeking to change the way we think about other countries. This is one of a powerful series of films to be shown on Pangea Day, May 10, "the day the world comes together through film". See all four anthems. Then visit http://www.pangeaday.org and register your screening for May 10. It’s time to […]
Seven Losing Short-listed Sites in the Choice of the 7 ‘New’ Wonders of the World
The Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Lisbon, Portugal recently reported on the selection of the 7 ‘new’ world wonders during a celebrity-studded ceremony held at Lisbon’s Stadium of Light on July 7, 2007. The AFP-Lisbon report mentions the names of the 7 ‘new’ world wonders, as follows: (1) the Great Wall of China, (2) the Colosseum […]
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