Daily Beast | Turkeys Violent Homophobia Daily Beast Hate crimes against LGBT individuals are higher in Turkey than in any other member of the Council of Europe, advocacy groups say. Gay men and transgender women are at particular risk. At least 30 transgender individuals in Turkey were murdered ... Protests Squelched, Gay Rights March Brings Many in Turkey Back to the Streets Turkey's Political Fallout on Iraqi Kurdish Crude Solidarity breaks out in Turkey |
Turkey's Erdogan: His own worst enemy? USA TODAY The refusal by protesters across Turkey to go home after weeks of demonstrations has posed the biggest threat to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan since he took office more than a decade ago. His violent crackdown against them has damaged ... |
Gold turkey The Economist (blog) HIGH inflation has wreaked havoc in India over the past five years. Unable to get a decent real return from bank accounts given relatively low interest rates, savers have taken their money out of the formal financial system. Household savings directed ... |
Ephesus & Kusadasi, Turkey USA TODAY The major reason for visiting Kusadasi: eyeballing the vast ruins of Ephesus, the ancient Greek city. Kusadasi became a major port -- claiming 250,000 residents during the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. -- in the Roman Empire. About 27-square-miles of ... |
INTERNATIONAL > Turkey rebuffs HRW's Syria refugee report Hurriyet Daily News “Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey have either closed numerous border crossings entirely or allowed only limited numbers of Syrians to cross, leaving tens of thousands stranded in dangerous conditions in Syria's conflict-ridden border regions. Only Lebanon has ... |
ECONOMICS > Turkey's exports slightly up in June Hurriyet Daily News Turkey's exports rose slightly to $11.8 billion in June, a 0.6 percent increase from the same month a year earlier, according to figures revealed by the Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TİM) today. The export volume reached $74.6 billion in the last six ... |
The Daily Star | Jordan, Iraq, Turkey turn away refugees The Daily Star BEIRUT: Syria's neighbors have closed or tightened restrictions at several border crossings, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded within Syria's dangerous frontier regions, Human Rights Watch said Monday. It said Iraq, Jordan and Turkey had all ... Jordan, Turkey, Iraq 'risk turning Syria into an open-air prison' |
SEMİH İDİZ > Egypt and Turkey Hurriyet Daily News There is a difference between Turkey and Egypt. To start off with no one can imagine the kind of gay pride parade that we had in Istanbul over the weekend taking place in Cairo, or anywhere else in the Islamic world, for that matter. This is clearly ... |
Turkey 2013 - Flying Eagles to Play Uruguay in Second Round AllAfrica.com Nigeria will take on Uruguay in a FIFA Under-20 World Cup Round of 16 match on Tuesdaynight in Istanbul. Uruguay finished second in Group F on six points after they smashed four unreplied goals past erstwhile group leaders Uzbekistan in their final ... |
Vehicle clips pole, crashes into North Turkey Creek Denver Post A vehicle clipped a utility pole on a winding, mountain road and careened into North Turkey Creek. The crash happened about 8:45 a.m. Monday in the 20,000 block of North Turkey Creek Road in Jefferson County, said Dan Hatlestad, an Inter-Canyon Fire ... |