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Director Nuri Kino: What was done to me created me
MARDİN - A Syriac man, whose life story is like a film, is a part of this year's Sinemardin Film Festival in the southeastern Mardin. Well-known journalist and director Nuri Kino, who was born in Midyat but raised in Sweden, says, 'I have seen many red carpets in my life, but I have never been this emotional and happy to participate in a film festival.'
Antalya’s ’high IQ school’ a dumb idea?
We salute the southern city of Antalya for its new initiative to open a primary school for gifted students, specifically those with IQs over 130. As a small newspaper with an outsized percentage of our own "brainiacs," many of us have benefited from the special treatment such status bestows. We can only endorse this expansion of educational opportunity as reported in our "South" section yesterday by reporter Betül Çal. We do so, however, with some hesitation.
Film telling of struggle between two languages gains appreciation
ISTANBUL - 'İki Dil Bir Bavul' (On the Way to School) was one of the most admired films at the Adana Golden Boll International Film Festival. The two directors have shot many documentaries over the years but they say this was their most successful. The documentary-like film's characters are from the real world. A young teacher who comes from Denizli tries to teach Turkish, instead of primary school classes, to Kurdish children who do not even speak a word of Turkish.
School to educate high-IQ kids only
ANTALYA - Working in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, the Antalya Provincial Directorate of Education plans to put children with an IQ level over 130 through an intensive academic program that will include education in both the natural sciences and the social sciences.
CONSULTANT’S CORNER: The Social Fabric of Turkey
Turkey, Istanbul in particular, has long been known as a crossroads of religions and cultures. However, this article will not be a historical essay. Rather, I will focus on today’s climate of tolerance and the threats to its continuance that may or may not exist.
Entry exams place more strain on high schoolers
ANKARA - The university entrance exams have become tougher thus placing even more strain on already stressed students, many of whom view these exams as potential life-defining moments. A survey conducted by unions involved in the field of education reveals that most students are unhappy with the present examination system
Friendship trip to Muş in rented van
ISTANBUL - Kevork Galosian, a 22-year-old from Armenia, studied Turkish at Yerevan University as a reaction against his family and now has founded a civil society organization to support the Turkish-Armenian dialog process and promote relations between the two countries
Multicultural director leads multilingual teaching school
ISTANBUL - Born in Palestine and since making a home in Beirut, St. Louis, Denmark and now Istanbul, an international preschool director is most at home as a foreigner abroad and holds a special affinity for Turkey. Christina Heath extends the lessons of her own multilingual upbringing to the children at Eden’s Garden Preschool, where she is the director and a teacher.
First lady jokes new puppy ’kind of crazy’
The first lady is spending a lot of time walking and training the 6-month-old Portuguese water dog who became a member of President Barack Obama's family. 'He loves to chew on people's feet,' Mrs. Obama divulged to more than 100 children invited to a program marking the annual Take Your Child to Work Day
Discovering a culture to dissipate prejudices
ANKARA - In a survey carried out to determine the attitudes of university students toward Armenians, it is found that for 44 percent of 3,095 students surveyed the word ’Armenian’ has negative connotations. However, the majority would prefer opportunities to interact more with them
How much will the US change under Obama?
U.S. President Barack Obama’s pre-election promise for change has galvanized public opinion around the world, including in Turkey. To what extent will he transform the United States domestically and revolutionize American foreign policy? And, what does Obama’s promise of change hold for Turkey?
Italy lays to rest its quake victims
L’AQUILA, ITALY - Quake-hit Italy mourns as thousands bade an emotional farewell on Good Friday to some 200 people killed in the earthquake that devastated the town of L'Aquila. ’This is the time to work together,’ says Pope Benedict XVI, urging survivors to keep up hope, as the death toll from Italy’s worst quake in three decades rises to 289 people
Rewiring the way we raise children in the hi-tech age
ISTANBUL - Brain researcher and education expert Dr. Donna Walker Tileston discusses with 200 of Istanbul's expatriate parents the latest on children learning in the hi-tech era. Speaking at the Istanbul International Community School speaker series, she says digital natives have grown up with a mouse in their hands while adults are learning fresh. ’We’re digital immigrants’
In one man’s commitments the bridges are transcended
ISTANBUL - A ’remixed’ international citizen, Harald Aumier has spent much of his life working with Turks at the homes, schools and football fields of Berlin. His level of commitment allows his multiple roles to be more than a bridge between two countries still steeped in frequent disagreement
PKK surrenders on the increase, indicates army
ANKARA - The military says the separatist PKK is failing to convince its recruits to stay and credits its own increased air operations since it carried out a large scale ground offensive and the provisions for surrender in the Penal Code for this success