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Turkish retailers launch training tour
ISTANBUL - The Turkish Retailers Federation, or TPF, and the Career Development Training Center, or Kargem, are organizing an eight-city training tour for retailers over the coming months, aimed at training company managers on business development, management skills and professional training.
New DP leader to unite center-right
ANKARA - The Democrat Party, or DP, elects 76-year old politician Hüsamettin Cindoruk as its new leader. Cindoruk says his aim is to unite the center-right factions under one roof. He reputed claims that he is a coup supporter, saying he is a victim of military coups instead
Eurasian nations introduced to Turkish Islamic traditions
ISTANBUL - As part of Turkey’s attempts to extend its influence in Eurasia, it calls together a council where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan emphasizes the importance given to knowledge and wisdom in the Islamic tradition, while expressing his regrets that ’this virtuous religion has, unfortunately, recently been associated with violence.’ To change this tragic misconception, he says, the Islamic world needs wise leaders
Kurdish language courses a first at Bilgi
ISTANBUL - While the heated subject of Kurdish language lessons continues to be debated among universities, Istanbul’s Bilgi University made the first step forward by becoming the first university in Turkey to offer Kurdish language and literature as a part of its curriculum.
Sopot
We are in Sopot to attend the first Europe-Turkey Forum organized jointly by the Instytut Wschodni and The Center for Turkish-Asian Strategic Studies, or TASAM. Sopot is a small holiday resort on the shores of the Baltic Sea. You may remember that years ago, before the demise of the Soviet Union, the Warszam Pact launched a music festival to undermine the popularity of the Eurovision Music Festival. It was called the Sopot Music Festival. Even a young Turkish singer won a gold medal there.
Isareli PM Olmert says no promises made to Syria yet
Israeli PM Ehud Olmert on Monday said he has made no promises to Syria about a future peace agreement as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for closer defense ties with Syria, a few days after Israel urged Damascus to distance itself from Tehran. (UPDATED)
Isareli PM Olmert says no promises made to Syria yet
Israeli PM Ehud Olmert on Monday said he has made no promises to Syria about a future peace agreement as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for closer defense ties with Syria, a few days after Israel urged Damascus to distance itself from Tehran. (UPDATED)
IMF and World Bank raise alarm over food prices, warn on further rises
Further gains in food prices would be “terrible” for the world’s poor and throw hundreds of thousands of them into starvation, the International Monetary Fund has warned. Governments throughout Asia and the Middle East are seeking to combat food inflation and avoid social unrest by curbing exports or lifting import duties on basic food staples such as rice. (UPDATED)
