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Turk unions vow to take action for May Day abuse
Turkey's leading unions vowed on Monday to take legal action against statesmen it claims are liable for the police's disproportional use of force during May 1 celebrations. The main opposition party will submit on Wednesday a motion of censure against the PM.
Turk unions vow to take action for May Day abuse
Turkey's leading unions vowed on Monday to take legal action against statesmen it claims are liable for the police's disproportional use of force during May 1 celebrations. The main opposition party will submit on Wednesday a motion of censure against the PM.
’Smoking ban in cafes risking jobs’
ADANA - Around 1 million people employed in the coffeehouse business in Turkey fear losing their jobs after a blanket ban on smoking in public places is implemented July 19, says the president of the Turkey coffeehouses and cafes federation. They cater to 20 million customers, he says
Istanbul’s green space disappearing
ISTANBUL - Istanbul, Turkey’s window to Europe, has witnessed so much unplanned urbanization that one might actually be able to count the number of trees in the city. According to environmental experts, the ratio of green spaces to population is well below European standards.
Iran election body rules out annulment, ready for partial recount
ISTANBUL - Iran's top legislative body on Tuesday ruled out annulling a disputed presidential poll that has prompted the biggest street protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution but said it was prepared for a partial recount. (UPDATED)
Constructors talk energy, new stimulus
ISTANBUL - The development of energy efficient construction materials will be one of the future trends of the local construction industry, Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ, chairwoman of the Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association, or TÜSİAD, said on Tuesday.
8 patients perish in hospital blaze
ANKARA -A blaze that is believed to have started in the radiology department of a state hospital in Bursa kills eight people in the intensive care unit. More than a dozen children and other patients are transferred to other hospitals to be treated for smoke inhalation as the Health Ministry investigates whether the fire was caused by a technical glitch
Tasmanian take on transgender issues
ISTANBUL -They are often in the media when they are arrested for prostitution, beaten by a client or police, or worst of all when they are victims of a hate crime. But this time transgender people living in Istanbul are on camera to talk about themselves and their lives to an independent filmmaker from Australia’s Tasmania.
Symbol of struggle for labor: Taksim Square
ISTANBUL -Celebrating Labor Day in Turkey began in 1909 but not especially among the Turks. The first workers to demonstrate were predominately Bulgarians and Serbs and a few Turks in Skopje. The first demonstration in Istanbul took place in 1912 and these first meetings served as a means of handing out pamphlets rather than demonstrations for labor movement solidarity
’May 1 venue deserves consideration’
ANKARA - President Abdullah Gül said requests from workers’ unions to stage May 1 demonstrations in Istanbul’s Taksim Square should be considered, reported the chairman of the Confederation of Revolutionary Workers' Unions, or DİSK, Süleyman Çelebi, who visited the president yesterday.
’Architecture: Turkey’s recognized art branch’
ISTANBUL - Doğan Hosal, a cunning and humanistic architect, has achieved much success in his career. Hasol is the chairman of the Building Information Center, or YEM, and runs his company with his wife and daughter. He is now the creator of İzmir’s renewed symbolic Efes Hotel
The never ending story of Halki Theological Seminary reopening
ISTANBUL - Since 1971 there have been attempts to reopen the Halki Theological Seminary on Istanbul’s Heybeliada and while the appeals have not fallen on deaf ears, various reasons have been put forward as to why it should not be reopened. Successive Turkish governments have argued that reopening Halki would lead the way to applications for Muslim universities, even though Muslim seminaries were never opened before. However, the current education minister has said he can see no reason why it cannot be reopened
Military destroys half of its landmine stocks
KIRIKKALE - The military introduces its Munitions Disposal Facility near the central Anatolian province of Kırıkkale, considered the world’s first integrated military plant, was established under an agreement reached by the Turkish Defense Ministry and the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency, or NAMSA.
