Globe and Mail | Turkey angry at S&P for lowering rating outlook The Seattle Times Turkey's prime minister on Thursday accused ratings agency Standard & Poor's of bias for lowering the country's long-term credit outlook on the same day it upgraded Greece's credit grade. By SELCAN HACAOGLU Associated Press No comments have been posted ... Turkish PM lashes out at S&P for lowering his country's credit outlook while ... |
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com | Turkey and the Raters: The Love Story Continues Wall Street Journal (blog) By Joe Parkinson It's no secret that there's little love lost between Turkey's policy makers and ratings firms. Turkish cabinet ministers and central-bank officials have long bemoaned raters' stance on Europe's fastest-growing economy, stressing that ... Turkey angry at S&P for lowering rating outlook Ratings Companies Consistently Get Turkey Wrong, RBS's Ash Says Turkey arts under pressure from conservative gov't |
Kansas City Star | Turkey's artistic freedoms under pressure from Islamist government seeking to ... Winnipeg Free Press ANKARA, Turkey - In a recent play in Turkey, two actors wore trench coats in their role as assassins posing as perverts planning to flash girls near a school. The scene and its themes of nudity and sexual depravity are at the centre of a debate over ... Turkey arts under pressure from conservative gov't |
Turkish Novelist Unveils New Museum Wall Street Journal (blog) By Ayla Albayrak Istanbul's cultural circles have been abuzz in recent days after Turkey's most famous novelist, Orhan Pamuk, unveiled his latest cultural contribution: a peculiar little museum touted as being the first of its kind. |
DAWN.com | Turkey annual CPI highest since October 2008 MarketWatch By Yeliz Candemir and Joe Parkinson ISTANBUL (MarketWatch)—Energy price hikes and soaring food and clothing costs sent Turkey's annual inflation rate to its highest level for three and a half years in April, pushing the lira higher on market ... Turkish Inflation Accelerates More Than Expected In April Turkish official inflation rises to 11.1% in April |
Press TV | Politics and Policies: Dealing With Ankara No Turkey Trot for Damascus Huffington Post Since the young Bashar Assad took control of the country upon his father's death, relations between Syria and some of its neighbors have also changed, including those with one very powerful neighbor, Turkey. This comes at an inopportune time, ... Turkey supporting armed Syrian rebels: Turkish official |
Flooding out terror? Turkey's Ilisu dam project CNN (blog) Turkey's proposed Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River would satisfy just that end. When Ankara completes the proposed construction on the dam in 2013, a large artificial reservoir would flood canyons across the rugged terrain of southeastern Turkey, ... |
Orinda couple visit underwater city in Turkey San Jose Mercury News By Nancy D. Brown It wasn't the melting of polar ice caps that caused the flooding of Kekova, Turkey, as was the basis of Kevin Costner's "Waterwold" movie. It was a volcano eruption that caused the sea level to rise, flooding the city. |
Sideline Chatter: calling a turkey turns up a coyote Bellingham Herald By DWIGHT PERRY - The Seattle Times Bill Robinson, hunting wild turkey in Maine, sent out an obviously authentic-sounding gobbler call from behind a tree - and got bitten by a stealthy coyote for his trouble. Good thing he had on four layers of clothes ... Hunter Attacked by Coyote He Fooled with His Turkey Call |
Adweek | Wild Turkey lands on TV: 'Give 'em the Bird' campaign spreads Indianapolis Star AP Wild Turkey's first US television advertising campaign offers a new twist to giving someone the bird. The 157-year-old brand is the latest Kentucky bourbon making a splash on television, showing the once-stodgy category has a sense of humor in ... Wild Turkey Gives TV Viewers 'The Bird' Ad of the Day: Wild Turkey Kentucky bourbon gets edgy with new advertising |