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Kadıköy mural brightens church wall and community
ISTANBUL - Last week foreign and local artists put their brushes together to give a church wall and its neighborhood a facelift. Where graffiti once adorned the 27-meter stretch, now a collage of Kadıköy monuments remind passersby to slow down and enjoy all Kadiköy has to offer
Kadıköy mural brightens church wall and community
ISTANBUL - Last week foreign and local artists put their brushes together to give a church wall and its neighborhood a facelift. Where graffiti once adorned the 27-meter stretch, now a collage of Kadıköy monuments remind passersby to slow down and enjoy all Kadiköy has to offer
Atıl Kutoğlu - Fashion designer extraordinaire Keeping residents of city chic
ISTANBUL - Atıl Kutoğlu went to Vienna to study business administration and has found himself atop the world of fashion design. Blending art, culture and a range of textiles, Kutoğlu has made a name for himself and his flagship Istanbul store.
The unclosed Iran dossier and us
The "Iran dossier" is not closed. Protests shaking the fundamentals of the oppression regime are on hold, for now. The Iranian Constitutional Court, half of its 12 members were appointed by Ayatollah Khamenei, ruled the recount of 10 percent of total votes cast. And the June 12 election results were approved once again. The case is closed but not the "Iran dossier".
An opportunity that comes once a millennium
Newsflash: Turkey has a pivotal opportunity in its battle against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, the kind that only occurs once every thousand years. Since the PKK’s establishment in the 1970s, it has focused its operational strategy on Turkey, utilizing foreign countries and state sponsors of terror along the way. However, an integral node of the PKK’s success is about to fail, as the outfit is about to lose all of its foreign sanctuaries. If Ankara acts to alleviate the Kurdish problem at home through domestic social and political reforms, then Turkey has a historic opportunity to turn the PKK into a marginal group.
Returning to horror with ’Drag Me to Hell’
LOS ANGELES - Sam Raimi, who had previously earned acclaim for his cult horror series ’The Evil Dead,’ and brother Ivan Raimi have written a rather old-fashioned terror tale, full of curses and creaks, bumps and shrieks, but they've added a heavy splattering of their trademark dark humor. The result is 'Drag Me To Hell,' a cartoony but clever movie
Foreign, local artists’ display at Beylerbeyi
ISTANBUL - Twenty local and international artists, brought together by Filipino curator and artist Rowena Martinez Ulayan, are showing their work at Beylerbeyi Palace on Istanbul’s Asian shoreline. Hailing from Cuba, Mauritius, Russia, South Africa and the United States, as well as Turkey, all the artists brought together by Ulayan have made Istanbul their home. The exhibition, ’Creative Euphoria,’ is on view until June 4
Istanbul craft tour: It’s reigning women
ISTANBUL - On the Behind the Bazaar tour next month meet women designers who whip antique pieces into forward-fashion shape. As the few female merchants among the some 4,000 Grand Bazaar shops can attest, males have ruled the sales roost. But women are shaping their own paths in the art market, traditions intact
Did I say a land of lunacy? I was too sanguine
When I wrote last week "The rough guide to Turkey: A land of history, sunshine and lunacy" (Daily News, May 1), I did not know I was underestimating the Crescent and Star. Only a few days after that article appeared in this column, what became "international breaking news" informed us about the massacre in a Kurdish village. Did I say lunacy? I did, not realizing the limits it could reach in these lands.
Turning to humor to endure deadly flu
MEXICO CITY - As Mexicans lock themselves inside in fear of the deadly swine flu virus, they can't help but have a little fun with it. The country’s newspapers offer smiley cutouts for people to paste to their masks, and some drivers have fashioned masks for their cars
Beşiktaş fails to take over top spot
ISTANBUL - An extraordinarily passionate performance by Fenerbahçe hands Beşiktaş a 2-1 defeat in the Turkcell Super League, preventing the Black Eagles from taking the top spot. Beşiktaş trails leader Sivasspor from a one-point distance again, with four weeks left in the campaign.
Time for sharing, not competing, say futurists
ISTANBUL - The Futurist Association organizes its second summit. The summit that will take place at Istanbul’s İş Art Culture Center on June 25 is organized under the slogan ’Nanotechnology will come and everything will change.’ The aim of the futurists is to catch the latest technologies
Martyrs of democracy
The power-obsessed prime minister of 1950s Turkey was telling his deputies that national will was above all other powers and since the ruling party received the highest vote in the election and was given the duty and privilege of administering the country on its own, if the ruling party majority in Parliament wanted to reintroduce caliphate, since they have the required majority in Parliament, thus the legislative power, they could do it. The nation was polarized at the time.
Simitis adresses Turkish audience on EU
Costas Simitis, who is the guest speaker this evening at a public lecture organized by the European Institute of Istanbul Bilgi University, has linked his record term as a prime minister of Greece (eight years and two months from January 1996 until March 2004), with an almost obsessive allegiance to the European Union ideal.
The heyday of gilding in the Ottoman Empire
ISTANBUL - The illustrious years of tezhip (gilding) in the Ottoman Empire lasted from Fatih Sultan Mehmed to Kanuni Sultan Süleyman, approximately 100 years. Then in tandem with the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire, the quality of education and training, standards and materials underwent a similar deterioration
Ex envoy: Armenians in US stronger than before
ISTANBUL - The Armenian lobby is fully mobilized and highly motivated yet that does not mean BarackObama’s administration will recognize Armenians claims of "genocide" despite pledges made during election campaigns, says former US ambassador to Ankara, Marc Parris
Ex-envoy warns Armenian issue could be "defining" in Turkey-US ties
ISTANBUL - The Armenian lobby in Washington is fully mobilized and highly motivated to re-launch its attempts to have recognized the Armenian claims regarding the 1915 incidents, but that does not mean their allegations would be recognized by the White House, a former ambassador of the U.S. to Ankara said.
A holiday commercialized with St Valentine’s myth
The fully history of St. Valentine's Day is blurry and nobody really knows who the real St. Valentine was. There are many stories and myths and there were three different Valentines who were martyred. One was a priest who lived in Rome and was supposedly martyred in 269 A.D. The second, a bishop, lived in Interamna (modern-day Treni) in Italy. There was a very obscure third Valentine who met his fate in Africa. The first Valentine, from Rome, is generally considered the right person and is associated with a charming but also gruesome story.
Creative pens
Disinformation is often more widespread in Cyprus reporting than the actual news. This might be a product of the consolidated positions of the two sides on the island and their attempt to use tools of public diplomacy, headed by the media, to win either public support for the policies they pursue at the Cyprus talks process or to land the other side in some serious difficulties.
An autocratic party
Turkey’s oldest political party that defines itself as "social democrat," although many in the country and abroad have difficulty in deciding where to place it on the Turkish or global political spectrum, held Sunday an extraordinary convention at a luxurious five-star Ankara Hotel.