The Vodafone 150 handset will be aimed at developing regions like Turkey and Africa, the firm said, where it will retail for around £10.
But don’t be expecting anything fancy for your tenner. The 150 has a monochrome screen, looks more like a cheap TV remote than a modern mobile, and won’t do much more than [...]
Washington supports Ankara in its effort to tackle Kurdish PKK , but military action is not the only solution available, the U.S. defense secretary said. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with Turkish officials in Ankara during the weekend, saying he would propose a supporting role for the military effort against supporters with the Kurdistan [...]
Turkey’s flag carrier Turkish Airlines, or THY, has been one of the three European airlines that posted increases in passenger boardings in 2009.
THY stood out with a 12.3 percent growth and moved from seventh to fourth place among members of the Association of European Airlines ranked by passengers carried, according to the recently-finalized AEA 2010 [...]
A seminar on the cultural and literary relations between Iran and Turkey was held at the Topkapi Palace Museum auditorium on February 5. The event was held as part of the closing ceremonies of Iran’s millennia-old history and civilization exhibition entitled “10,000 Years of Iran’s Civilization and 2,000 Years of Joint Heritage”.
The seminar was held [...]
Turkish police have arrested a Plymouth businessman who was on the run after sexually abusing teenage boys. The hunt for Alfred John Palmer, now 52, began when he fled the UK sometime after May 2006 following the halting of a trial where he faced five counts of indecent assault. His long-term partner, Daniel Tapper, now [...]
FBI director Robert Mueller met with Turkish officials here Wednesday to discuss joint efforts in combating separatist Kurdish rebels, the US embassy said. Mueller’s agenda focused on “our ongoing and important cooperation on counter-terrorism and law enforcement matters,” the statement said, asserting US support for Turkey’s struggle against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as [...]
Turkish accession to the European Union will be a tremendous benefit to Ankara and to the region, said British Foreign Secretary David Miliband. Turkey embarked on its accession negotiations with the European Union in 2005. Ankara has moved on a series of concessions meant to meet the policy requirements to join Europe but faces obstacles [...]
First-time buyers of Turkish property are now more likely to require finance than before the credit-crunch. Many existing owners of Turkish property could also benefit from releasing the equity in their Turkish property and getting up to 70% of the current value back in cash! That’s where a professional Mortgage broker plays an important part.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy only promised to enforce bilateral relations with Turkey, but still refused to support the Islamic country to win the European Union membership, the presidential palace Elysee said Friday.
Sarkozy and his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul held a discussion during lunch in Elysee after attending the inauguration of a Turkish culture exhibition in [...]
Turkey’s Turtle Rescuers By Gary Lachman This summer I had the privilege of meeting a living icon of Turkey and her knight in shining armor. Well… Perhaps not shining armor; more like tortoise shell. I am referring to Kaptan June Haimoff of Iztuyu Beach in Dalyan and Professor Dr. Yakup Kaska of Pamukkale University in [...]
A north-east couple have survived a white-water rafting accident which left one man dead. Martin Farquhar, 35, and his partner Mary were part of a group rafting on the Dalaman River in Turkey when the raft overturned, killing a Welsh man.
Press and Journal reported today the couple, believed to be from Laurencekirk, had been on [...]
A Turkish state television series showing an Israeli soldier shooting dead a Palestinian baby is just fiction and was not meant to cause a diplomatic incident between Israel and Turkey, a Turkish minister said.
“Separations”, in which actors playing Israeli soldiers and Palestinians fight street battles in Jerusalem in Israel, has strained already tense relations between [...]
While Spain has long been seen as the primary holiday destination for Britons looking for sun and beaches, a recent study indicates that Turkey is now well in the process of overtaking Spanish resorts when it comes to attracting visitors from the United Kingdom. This change, however, has a lot to do with concerns about [...]
A British man is feared to have been kidnapped while enjoying a walk in Turkey. John Kirkham and his wife Sandra were staying in a hotel in Ovacik and John, 67, went walking on Monday along the Lycian Way. His wife describes him as an experienced walker and the family is considering the fact that [...]
The Co Londonderry man’s trial was set to get under way last month but is now expected to start within the next fortnight. Said Mr O’Kane: “I have been meeting with the court officials this week, but we still haven’t heard anything. “I hope the trial can get under way as soon as possible, because [...]
Parliament approved a law Thursday extending a smoking ban in this tobacco-growing nation to all bars, restaurants and coffeehouses by mid 2009. The new law backed by the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will prohibit smoking in all enclosed public areas next year.
Turkey already bans smoking on buses, airplanes and large offices, [...]
This month of Ramadan (Ramazan) in Turkey and on Saturday for Muslims in America. Practicing Muslims make sacrifices during Ramadan by fasting from all food, smoking and sex from sun up to sundown every day during the month. Although the fasting practice is the same everywhere, how one celebrates this holy season may differ from [...]
Turkey is restoring access to YouTube after the video-sharing website removed the videos that prompted the officials to block access in the first place.
The website said that it has removed the videos a prosecutor deemed insulting to Turkey’s founding father, who established the country after collapse of the Ottoman Empire Turkey has blocked access to [...]
Paris Hilton took part in an impromptu belly dance during the Miss Turkey 2008 contest in Istanbul yesterday. The heiress was a judge at the beauty pageant – but she clearly didn’t want to be left out of the limelight.
Paris, 27, took to the stage to join a professional belly dancer and was seen twirling [...]
Are you in dilemma about whether to return ? If so ITV1 are making a do*****entary series about expats who are weighing up the merits of returning home. It is the great British dream to find a place in the sun which offers tranquility and a better quality of life. It is no surprise then [...]
