http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:14:58 +0200 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/images/elements/turkishdailynews.gif http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108866 Landmines laid along the Turkish-Syrian border are being removed for the construction of a new border checkpoint. Heated work is continuing on the 200-acre area between Mohris Hill in the http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108965 EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has proposed Turkey host an international conference to help http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108990 The United States' second highest ranking military officer yesterday held meetings with Turkish military officials at the General Staff and discussed a number of issues including the fight against the http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108995 With 10 days to go to the Union for the Mediterranean summit in Paris, Turkey has not yet decided on its level of participation, a concrete indicator of the European Union-candidate's http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109004 Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, is in Turkey for extensive talks with Turkish politicians, seeking to keep up-to-date with both the government and opposition, and http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108862 Turkey's eastern and southeastern provinces do not have sufficient numbers of female imams to deliver religious speeches to the locals; therefore, the Religious Affairs Directorate will begin to http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108927 Globalization means the world is getting smaller, with global developments increasingly taking effect on a wide scale. Today's young generation will be affected the most by global issues such as climate http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108987 The president of Socialist International, or SI, Wednesday described the latest developments in Turkey as “disturbing.” Georges Papandreou, who is also president of the Pan http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108996 Health authorities say hospitals in northeastern Greece have been put on alert after a woman died of a form of insect-carried fever.A Health Ministry statement says tests showed the Greek woman http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109009 The Justice and Development Party, or AKP, yesterday in its verbal defense to the Constitutional Court in the closure case against it on charges of seeking to undermine the secular http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109011 The founder and widow of a former leader of the Democratic Left Party, or DSP, argued yesterday that current DSP leader Zeki Sezer is unable to run the party and that should resign. Sezer responded, http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109015 Workers' shelters in the Tuzla shipyards are in a seriously unhealthy condition, according to the head official of Istanbul's Tuzla district, reported the Anatolia news agency yesterday. Although http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109017 A four-stage plan including mass protests, clashes between police and the populace, and other means to stage a coup against the Islamist government was reportedly found in the office of a retired http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109018 The National Judiciary Network Project, or UYAP, was launched in 2000 in order to create a “paperless office environment.” The system involves digitalizing documents of lawsuits as soon http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109019 The National Judiciary Network Project, or UYAP, was launched in 2000 in order to create a “paperless office environment.” The system involves digitalizing documents of lawsuits as soon http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108882 Exhibit celebrates peace The painting exhibition titled “Visions of Peace from the Hands of Children” by Maureen Kushner kicked off yesterday at the Foreign Ministry's Suna Çokgür Ilıcak Art Gallery in http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108917 British comic Sacha Baron Cohen is to play detective Sherlock Holmes in a spoof movie based on Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary supersleuth, Daily Variety reported Wednesday.Baron Cohen -- http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108524 A team of eight students hopes to unearth the remains of an ancient city on the Black Sea coast, regarded by many as the “Ephesus of the Black Sea.” Excavations will be made July 15, aiming to http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108918 After 16 years directing Hollywood movies, John Woo is returning to Chinese film with an ambitious two-part historical epic that he hopes will also appeal to Western audiences."Red Cliff," whose http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108924 UNESCO's World Heritage Committee began deliberations Wednesday in Quebec City, one of the oldest of Canadian cities, over which of the globe's architectural and natural wonders to add to http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108931 Young Norwegian chef Geir Skeie won top spot in the new Bocuse d'Or European gastronomy competition following a 5.5-hour cook-off and exams in the Norwegian city of Stavanger, http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108935 Different from other waffle cafes, DuBle Crepes and Waffles is a place where one can taste original Brussels waffles, French crepes and Italian gelato ice cream. DuBle, opened in January 2008 by http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108946 The Bordeaux region's St. Emilion wines have been stripped of their top classification by a French court, which ruled Tuesday that "Grand Cru" labels should be taken off this year's bottles. "Just as we http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108950 The owner of Bruce Lee's family mansion in Hong Kong has abandoned his plan to sell the property and will consider turning it into a museum celebrating the kung fu film legend, a report said http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108953 Visiting places famous for death is nothing new. You can tour the Nazi concentration camps of Dachau in Germany and Auschwitz in Poland, or the killing fields of Choeung Ek in Cambodia. http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108957 Busts of 17 prominent Turkish figures located in Democracy Park in the Maçka neighborhood in Istanbul have been removed for repair. Erected in the park 10 years ago, the sculptures have been http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108959 Pioneering “musicman” Herbie Hancock may not play the bagpipes or The Dam Busters like the dictates of the cheese classic, but his sensitivity and instinct for the caprices of pulsating music http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108991 Hey Group, Turkey's largest company manufacturing knitted ready-wear, has reached export volumes of $200 million with the foreign trade firm it founded a year ago. The group's http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108994 A telegram to Vladimir Lenin announcing the execution of Russia's last tsar and the bayonets used to finish off the victims are among items going on display in Moscow Wednesday, almost 90 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108886 GMR Infrastructure, an Indian firm that is part of the consortium that acquired the management rights to Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is interested in Turkey's energy sector, the http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108926 Oil soared to a record above $144 a barrel yesterday in Asia, fueled by concerns over a larger-than-expected http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108929 General Motors, battered by the slowest U.S. sales market in 15 years, faces the possibility of bankruptcy and may need to raise as much as $15 billion, a Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst said. The http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108937 Real estate companies are searching for new investment areas amid increasing prices and land shortage in Istanbul. Against this backdrop, Şişli's Bomonti district, Istanbul's first industrial region, http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108942 The Turkish government will limit imports of energy-inefficient household appliances to meet European Union http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108945 Kumuşoğlu İnşaat, which operates under the body of Tokal Group of Companies, is undertaking the construction of Agena Esenyurt Evleri, in Istanbul's Esenyurt district. The project, which sits on a plot http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108954 Banks have started offering credit with low interest rates for environment-friendly housing projects in the aftermath of the successive initiation of these projects by real estate companies. The http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108962 Kozken İnşaat, a partnership of Tahincioğlu Real Estate, Gençoğlu Holding A.Ş. and Nora A.Ş., has started delivering homes in its Palladium project located in Kozyatağı Yenisahra district. The http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108976 Consumption of vodka has increased dramatically in Turkey, which is consistent with trends in the world's alcoholic drink markets. Although rakı, the anise-flavored traditional Turkish drink, continues http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108978 Edison, Italy's second-biggest power generator, and Greece's Hellenic Petroleum signed a final agreement to create a joint company on power generation and trading in Greece.“With this http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108992 The European Central Bank raised interest rates to a seven-year high to fight inflation even as economic growth cools.The ECB's Governing Council, meeting in Frankfurt, increased the http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109014 Turkcell Technology, a Turkcell subsidiary in research and development, or R&D, is starting to operate its new Turkcell Technology Center, which is located at the Scientific and Technological http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109024 Turkish inflation has unexpectedly slowed for the first time in five months in June, easing pressure on the Central Bank to raise interest rates.Inflation fell to 10.6 percent from 10.7 percent the month http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108941 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday ordered the evacuation of about 200 homes in the http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108964 Colombian troops tricked rebels into freeing politician Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans in a bold but bloodless jungle rescue that dealt a severe blow to Latin America's oldest left-wing http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108969 Colombian spies tricked leftist rebels into handing over kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors in a daring helicopter rescue so successful that not a http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108972 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to lock up rights to ship natural gas from three Caspian Sea nations that control 3.3 percent of the world's reserves as competition for the fuel from Europe http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108975 Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President George W. Bush promised to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year's end. He conceded that June http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108983 Hezbollah's leader has confirmed for the first time his group will hand over two captured Israeli soldiers and http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108997 A deadly rampage in a bulldozer by a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem left Israel grappling yesterday with the dilemma of how to maintain security in the city along with the premise it is http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109003 Arguments between Poland's president and government over issues ranging from the EU's reform treaty to anti-missile defense may herald the early start of a long and arduous presidential http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109016 Mongolian officials cleared away debris left by a night of deadly riots as the General Election Committee declared yesterday that the ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party has won http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108934 Burak BEKDİL http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108948 Mithat MELEN http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108980 Semih İDİZ http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108986 Cengiz ÇANDAR http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109008 Former Chief of General Staff retired Gen. Hilmi Özkök made a rather strange call. The retired general, much accused during his tenure for not being tough enough on the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, was saying that an “official power” should take the support of the nation and intervene to stop the current escalation of polarization and “put the house in order.”Özkök, in an interview with eminent journalist Fikret Bila of Milliyet, was complaining that developments in the country have taken on a very worrisome dimension and which were perceived by the Turkish nation as an indication of the disruption of the atmosphere of confidence between constitutional institutions of the co http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109013 Mehmet Ali Birand http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108951 TAKVİM General Directorate of Highways directors in custody The Ministry of Transportation has filed a case against directors of the 17th Division of the General Directorate of Highways in Yalova, based on claims of land usurpation, reported daily Takvim yesterday. The managers have been placed in custody and Regional Director Yakup Dost was sent to the capital Ankara for temporary duty. The directors have been accused of purchasing plots of lands at low prices while carrying out a bridge project between Istanbul and Yalova, with the expectation that the prices of the land they purchased were likely to increase in the future. The bridge project, which was first brought to the ag http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109010 Final curtain in ErgenekonNURAY MERT, RadikalEvaluating the latest developments in Turkey as democratic progress is being extremely optimistic. In this country there are many coup http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108961 When it comes to medals, a bronze will not be good enough this time for Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James and his teammates on the United States Olympic squad of NBA stars. The Americans http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108967 The NBA's SuperSonics franchise will move to Oklahoma City for the 2008-09 season as part of a settlement announced Wednesday with the city of Seattle. The agreement ends a contentious http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108970 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday called for controversial Olympic facilities planned for Sochi to be relocated, saying ecological concerns were more important than expense, Russian news http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108998 Former world No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo said yesterday she will not compete in the Olympic Games in Beijing next month. Mauresmo, who won silver in singles at the 2004 Olympics, was selected http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108999 Raymond Domenech will stay on as France coach despite a humiliating first-round exit at last month's European Championship, the French federation said yesterday. The decision - taken at http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109002 Departing Spain coach Luis Aragones welcomes Fenerbahçe challenge but is scared that he will be misunderstood in Turkey."I'm scared that they will not understand the way I express myself,” http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109006 http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109023 Champion Venus Williams powered through to her seventh Wimbledon final yesterday with a matter-of-fact 6-1, 7-6 victory over Russian Elena Dementieva. Williams, aiming for her fifth