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IHT Rendezvous: Alcohol, Islam and Turkey's Founding Fathers
İstanbul :: Turkey | 13 days ago
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Associated Press Diners raised a toast with beer and raki at a restaurant in Istanbul. Abdullah Gul, Turkey's president, was reported to be wavering over implementation of a controversial law restricting alcohol use, a measure seen by some as the
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Despite Peaceful Withdrawal, PKK-Turkey Peace Remains Uncertain
Ankara :: Turkey | 1 month ago
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The peaceful withdrawal from Turkey of combatants from the Kurdistan's Workers Party (PKK) began last Wednesday but is already at risk of being compromised following a twin car bomb explosion on Saturday afternoon. The terrorist attack in Rayhanli in
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Push for maternity leave in Turkey may backfire
İstanbul :: Turkey | 4 months ago
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Textiles and the chair of the Turkish Industry and Business Association's gender equality working group. "There is a tendency among employers to avoid hiring pregnant women since they will need to take their [maternity] leave soon," she said. The
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Turkish Communists: Still Waging A Cold War That No Longer Exists
Ankara :: Turkey | 5 months ago
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Reuters/Ihlas News Agency/IHA) Security officials inspect the site after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. embassy in Ankara on February 1, 2013. C) said the attack represented a "act of self-sacrifice" designed to target the U.S., which they
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Turkey wages 'cultural war' in pursuit of its archaeological treasures
Ankara :: Turkey | 5 months ago
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Istanbul and in Berlin The Sidamara sarcophagus from Konya in the Archaeological Museum at the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. A 5,000-year-old burial ground in Konya was recently covered in concrete and transformed into a recreational area. Photograph:
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Democratic reform in Turkey: constitutional ‘moment' or constitutional process?
Ankara :: Turkey | 5 months ago
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Constitutions are highly entrenched laws that express the common identity of the nation...Yet in Turkey, the details of the reform process have not been fully disclosed, and it is being rushed through. Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Turkey: Television Drama Generates Official Angst
İstanbul :: Turkey | 5 months ago
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In most countries, it's unusual for the looming death of a television character to become a source of official anxiety. In Turkey, however, a hit television series chronicling the 16th century reign of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent has
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European Court Of Human Rights Reinforces Right To Access Online Content
İstanbul :: Turkey | 6 months ago
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Mostly these were YouTube videos it took exception to, but other services were banned too ...The case was brought by a Turkish PhD student named Ahmet Yildirim, who complained that he had faced "collateral censorship" when his Web pages hosted on
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The empire strikes back
İstanbul :: Turkey | 9 months ago
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What appears as a new fact on the ground is that the Ottoman Empire's spirit has been revived in the body of modern Turkey. Umit Bektas September 12 marked the anniversary of one of the most important milestones in Turkish history: the 1980 military
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Syrian refugee crisis worsens in Turkey
Ankara :: Turkey | 10 months ago
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The swelling numbers of refugees on Turkish soil are putting an enormous strain on Ankara which is pushing for safe zones inside Syria to shelter them as it confronts security-related problems at home. More than 9,000 Syrians were waiting near the
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