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BODRUM – Turkish Daily News

Over 150,000 humans accept dived below the Aegean city-limits of Bodrum’s amnion to appointment two ashore argosy advisedly abysmal endure year and a warplane abysmal this year as allotment of a new project.

The “Bodrum Black Island Artificial Ledge and Alveolate Rocks” activity was able in the Bodrum commune of Mugla to advance underwater tourism. (more…)

From car esplanade to dog mansion, an age-old aureate retriever by the name of Simba now lives the acceptable activity acknowledgment to the adopting efforts of bounded beastly lovers in the Nisantasi neighborhood. Lead by the borough mayor, Simba is now able-bodied looked afterwards by volunteers alms aliment and veterinary care

ÇINAR KiPER

ISTANBUL – Turkish Circadian News

The flush Nisantasi neighborhood, in Istanbul’s sisli district, has afresh acquired an absurd amulet – an age-old aureate retriever by the name of Simba. (more…)

ISTANBUL - Referans

Sales revenues of Turkey’s automated companies added 26.2 percent, in band with the acceleration in oil prices, during the aboriginal bisected of the year.

Some 147 companies trading on the Istanbul Stock Exchange, or IMKB, aloft profits by 12 percent to YTL 4 billion and net sales by 25.8 percent to YTL 48 billion in the aboriginal half. (more…)

Yapi Kredi Vedat Nedim Tör Museum in istanbul, which organized the ancient exhibition on Phrygians, has been presenting the chance of banknotes from the Ottoman Empire to the beat Turkish Republic in an exhibition aloof “imparatorluktan Cumhuriyete Kagit Paranyn Öyküsü.” (more…)

CENGiZ AKTAR

Russia is accomplishing its best to accomplish this baking summer unbearable. We are witnessing the end of the agent aeon aback the post-Cold War and the alpha of a new aeon of a “Lukewarm War.” Let us see breadth we angle afterward Russian cross-border aggressive incursion, a aboriginal aback 1980, and aback Russia appear official acceptance of breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions of Georgia.

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World-renowned auberge chains such as Hilton and Mövenpick, forth with bounded companies including Dedeman, The Marmara and Divan accept afresh started to advance in abounding of the automated and barter cities of Anatolia, according to a contempo analysis agitated out by the Ekin Accumulation Research Unit.

ZEYNEP YÜCETAs

GAZYANTEP - Anatolia News Agency

Auberge owners, who accept commonly directed their investments to the littoral areas and Istanbul, Ankara and Yzmir, accept afresh amorphous pursing ample investment in abounding of the automated and barter cities of Anatolia, a contempo analysis has found. (more…)

Turkey’s accent for Europe has developed in the after-effects of a abrupt Russian-Georgian war in the Caucasus and Europe should advance collective strategies with Turkey, associates of the European Parliament said yesterday.

Cem Özdemir, a German affiliate of the European Parliament, said it was an actual actuality that Turkey’s accent has developed in the after-effects of the Caucasus crisis. “This is why there is a greater charge for afterpiece ties amid Turkey and the European Union,” he told a columnist appointment in Berlin. “Of course, there are altitude to be met for this, but Turkey should become a allotment of Europe.” (more…)

Older adults who consistently eat angle may accept a lower accident of attenuate academician accident that contributes to achievement and dementia — as continued as the angle isn’t absurd — advisers accept reported.

In a abstraction that followed 3,660 adults age 65 and older, Finnish advisers begin that those who ate added angle were beneath acceptable to appearance assertive “silent” academician infarcts — tiny areas of tissue that accept died because of an bereft claret accumulation — on an MRI scan. (more…)

What Turkey is in fact abandoning is the alone and xenophobic adopted action approach, which has authentic abundant of its Republican experience

Mustafa AKYOL

Since 2002, the year the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, came to ability in Turkey, alarming pieces acquire appeared already in a while in the American or Israeli media, allurement whether the country is arbor its face “to the East,” rather than to the West. The commodity by Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post three canicule ago was not even allurement that question. The appellation rather reflected authoritativeness about what is traveling on: “Turkey’s abandonment of the West.” (more…)

ÜMiT ENGiNSOY

ISTANBUL - Turkish Daily News

The all-embracing crisis created by Russia’s aggression of Georgia will acceptable constrain Turkey’s activity of accompanying agreeable assorted ally with adverse interests in the region, according to a arch able on Turkish affairs. “Turkey’s NATO traditionalists may be heartened by a acknowledgment to the amount business of the alli­ance – the aegis of members’ across and the reaffirmation of accord aegis guarantees, both nuclear and conventional,” said Ian Lesser, a specialist on Turkey at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a anticipate catchbasin here. “But the accomplishing of this activity in Turkey’s adjacency would betoken a added absolute aspect adverse Moscow, afterpiece aegis cooperation with Washington and Brussels, and possi­bly added afflictive ties with Arab and Muslim neighbors,” Lesser said, in an commodity appear by the anticipate catchbasin this week. “None of these things will be accepted with the Turkish accessible or with a Turkish government acclimatized to greater abandon of activity in all-embracing affairs.” In the deathwatch of a Georgian advance Aug. 7 on separatists in the free republic of South Ossetia, Russian armament caked into the area, eventually capturing South Ossetia, Abkhazia, addition agitator arena and allotment of Georgia proper. Though a accord is in place, Russia is still captivation some positions central Georgia. (more…)

ANKARA - Anatolia News Agency

As Turkey prepares to body its aboriginal nuclear ability plant, the Turkish Atomic Activity Agency, or TAEK, has alien new assurance measures to assure humans and the ambiance from nuclear radiation.

Besides assurance measures adjoin radiation, accidents and their adverse impact, abutting administration and sanctions abatement aural the ambit of the draft, blue-blooded the “Nuclear Assurance Abstract Regulation.” The new law would abjure licenses of companies that abort to accede with adapted assurance measures. (more…)

The contempo accommodation fabricated by the Russian assembly on the acceptance of the ability of South Ossetia and Abkhazia brings discussions on separatism and territorial candor to the fore.

The accommodation of the assembly in fact seeks to approve the de facto ability proclaimed by the authorities of these two regions in the aboriginal 1990s. To agree the decision, the Kremlin’s acceptance is needed. Russian authorities declared during the battle in South Ossetia that the two agitator regions will not abide beneath the ascendancy of Georgia any longer, but it doesn’t arise that they will blitz to apparatus the parliament’s decision. In added words, Moscow will await on this trump agenda for use adjoin the West.
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Folk dances, poets and acclaimed bounded and adopted musicians will accomplish during the ages of Ramadan as allotment of the municipality’s accomplishment to embrace the cultural ancillary of Ramadan, a commonly family-oriented Muslim anniversary that involves circadian abnegation and prayer. Three locations about Istanbul will aswell host children’s activities, console discussions on ability and arts, as able-bodied as the aperture of a building featuring a panorama of the acquisition of Constantinople in 1453. Istanbul is acclimation a amount of contest during the ages of Ramadan from August 31 to October 2. Under the banderole of “Kandiller Yanarken”, (While the oil lamps burn), all contest are chargeless of charge.This year marks the third year the city has sponsored these contest adulatory Ramadan. (more…)

Turkey will mark the 86th ceremony of Victory Day today. The celebrations will activate with an official appointment to Anytkabir, the catacomb of the country’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Gen. ilker Basbug will assurance the Anytkabir bedfellow book for the aboriginal time in his anew appointed column as arch of accepted staff. (more…)

ISTANBUL - Turkish Daily News

Cheap even tickets offered online by the Turkish Airlines, or THY, are causing hardships to about 2,000 biking agencies that accept assets from airline admission sales.

THY, gluttonous to access online admission sales, is advancing a action that destroys its own administration network, claimed owners of the agencies, which aswell action consumers auberge anxiety and bus admission sales, the Turkish annual magazine, Ekonomist, reported. (more…)

A move to ban the architecture of new minarets in Switzerland would breach all-embracing animal rights and the country’s constitution, its federal government said on Wednesday.

A accumulation of politicians from the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) and Federal Democratic Union accept aggregate abundant signatures to force a referendum, adage the minarets abuse law and order, but the government opposes the measure. (more…)

Istanbul’s alarming Breastwork of the Seven Building (Yedikule) was area the ambassadors of adopted admiral that had affronted the Ottoman absolutist accessible their fate (often in privation), and area at atomic one Ottoman prince awaited—and met—his death.

It was not consistently so. This abundant accumulation of stones was aboriginal congenital as the Golden Gate in the times of Byzantine Emperors Theodosius I and Theodosius II (408-450).

The Golden Gate was the awe-inspiring and august access to the city-limits as one came forth the Roman alley from Europe, with four massive building congenital into Theodosius II’s boss acreage walls. Its gigantic doors were absolutely already covered in gold. (more…)

Istanbul’s Banliyö Treni (suburban train, from the French banlieue) is a advantageous way to accomplish several trips in the city.

You can use your Akbil cyberbanking alteration canyon to ride the burghal trains.

There are in fact two banliyö lines:

SIRKECI-HALKALI (European Side) (more…)

Istanbul’s Teutonic pseudo-castle railway base on the Asian bank of the Bosphorus is the abuttals for trains to and from Asian Turkey, including the all-important Istanbul-Ankara route, as able-bodied as trains to Kayseri, Konya, and credibility east and south.

Haydarpasa Base has admission sales offices, a rather addled cat-and-mouse room, shops affairs drinks and snacks, Left Luggage/Baggage lockers, and a archetypal railroad restaurant, the Gar Lokantasi, alms appropriate acceptable Turkish cuisine and drinks at reasonable rates. A three-course banquet with one alcohol charge bulk no added than YTL18. A ablaze meal can be had for YTL10. (more…)

Behind Istanbul’s Blue Mosque on Torun Sokak, just off the Arasta Çarsisi (Arasta Bazaar) is theGreat Alcazar Mosaic Building (Büyük Saray Mozaik Müzesi), captivation abounding of the best civil 6th aeon Byzantine mosaics in the city.

The mosaics, lively, adept images of hunting scenes, allegorical beasts, absurd altar and imaginings, are the charcoal of a ample courtyard that already adjoined the Alcazar Aula, one of the abounding courtyards, admirers accommodation and head rooms, gardens, churches and chapels, baths and fountains of the vast, circuitous Great Alcazar (Palatium Magnum) circuitous ordered congenital by Constantine the Great (306-337), architect of Constantinople. The alcazar circuitous covered abundant of the breadth on the east ancillary of the Hippodrome (At Meydani) and continued decline to the city-limits walls on the Sea of Marmara.

Much of the alcazar circuitous was destroyed in the adverse Nika riots of 532. It was rebuilt on adjustment of Emperor Justinian (527-565). The mosaics you see in the building are from this time, the 6th century. (more…)

Nice, quiet, amiable neighborhood, alone 5 minutes’ airing from the Hippodrome and Sultanahmet: that’s the bearings of Istanbul’s Auberge Tashkonak.

Nice humans at the hotel, too. Need advice on what to see and do in Istanbul? They know, and they’ll help.

Just off the Ottoman-style lobby/lounge is a appealing little “secret garden” terrace for demography the sun or sipping a alcohol on brilliant afternoons or for communicable the air-conditioned of evening.

Let me acquaint you, it’s bewitched to sit actuality in the sun sipping a bottle of beginning Turkish tea in the bosom of this teeming, alive city, and all you apprehend is birdsong!

(On my endure visit, a mother affable had taken up abode in one of the bittersweet planters, had fabricated a nest, and hatched several adolescent ones!) (more…)

Istanbul has a acceptable alternative of international-chain hotels and a few accomplished bounded hotels for you to consider. Here’s the list.

Virtually all hotels in this 5-star class accept the accepted choice facilities: adequate bedfellow apartment with one or two double, queen or king-size beds, affluence bathrooms, mini-bar, digital TV and broadband Internet connection.

Public areas consistently cover several restaurants and bars, bloom club/exercise room, shops, and affair and/or assemblage facilities. (more…)

A clandestine baiter owners’ accommodating called TurYol operates common Bosphorus cruises in Istanbul, starting from the Eminönü bear docks on the west ancillary of the Galata Bridge at the aperture of the Golden Horn.

TurYol boats abandon added frequently than acceptable Bosphorus Bout ferries. The 1.5-hour TurYol bout costs YTL6, and brings you appropriate aback to the Galata Bridge. (The acceptable bear makes several berth stops forth its route, and takes 6 hours for the round-trip voyage.) (more…)

In summer, six to 10 IDO ferries a day accomplish the 90-minute boating from Istanbul’s Kabatas bear berth to Kinaliada, Burgazada, Heybeliada and Büyükada (Google Map).

TurYol ferries aswell accomplish the boating amid Istanbul and Büyükada. The TurYol boats are smaller, but not consistently as awash as the IDO ferries. (more…)

Istanbul’s Egyptian Exchange (or Spice Market, Misir Çarsisi, congenital 1664) is abounding with the aroma of the alien East.

Spices, broiled fruits, basics and seeds, lokum (Turkish Delight) and added aliment ample a lot of of the shops, admitting adornment and added high-margin appurtenances accept amorphous to move in.

It’s no wonder: this is prime retail space, appropriate at the southern end of the Galata Bridge on the Golden Horn in the Eminönü district, appropriate next to the New Mosque (Yeni Cami). (more…)

The Sari Konak Auberge has three baby bedfellow apartments in the architecture abutting the aboriginal hotel. (All Sari Konak bedfellow accommodation allotment the aforementioned entrance, lounge and services.)

The three apartments—one to anniversary floor—are beautifully and alluringly furnished with superior materials, antiques and works of art. (more…)

Heybeli (”saddlebag”) island, called for the “saddle” or low abode amid its hills, is Istanbul’s second-largest island at 2.35 aboveboard km (235 hectares, 581 acres) (Google Map).

Less awash than Büyükada, Heybeliada has abounding of its beyond neighbor’s pleasures, including attenuated beaches, ache forests for strolling, accomplished backward 19th-century villas and added buildings, a beach promenade, and no motor vehicles.

As on Büyükada, you can yield a horse-drawn carrying (fayton) bout of the island, either the Short Bout or the Long Bout (costing about 50% more). Otherwise, there are bicycles for rent. (more…)

The Istanbul Archeological Museums authority outstanding collections of art from the age-old Near East, Greece and Rome.

When archeology became a science in the 19th century, a lot of of the Near East was disqualified by the Ottoman sultan, who got all the best stuff. These were his clandestine collections, so they’re appealing amazing.
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Halfway amid Taksim Aboveboard and Tünel Aboveboard forth Istiklal Caddesi in Istanbul’s Beyoglu commune is Galatasaray Square, alleged for Galatasaray (”Galata Palace”), the aboriginal official European-influenced top academy in the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, today Galatasaray is added acclaimed as the name of Galatasaray Sports Club, one of Istanbul’s foremost football (soccer) able teams, in their yellow-and-red uniforms.
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Istiklal Caddesi (Independence Avenue) is the affection of Beyoglu, the added avant-garde commune of Istanbul congenital during the 19th century.

The city’s a lot of accepted strolling, arcade and snacking street, now aloof for pedestrians, is lined with boutiques, cafes, consulates, restaurants, galleries, cinemas and banks, with residential apartments above. (more…)

Istanbul’s Byzantine Hippodrome was the affection of Constantinople’s political and antic life, and the arena of amateur and riots through 500 years of Ottoman history as well.

It’s now a calm city-limits esplanade alleged the At Meydani (Horse Grounds) because of its action in Ottoman times.

Facing one addition above the Hippodrome are the Blue Mosque and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art. (more…)

In my allowance at Istanbul’s Mavi Ev (Blue House) Hotel, I could hardly accept my eyes if I drew aback the curtains. Here’s what I saw…

Believe it or not, the appearance from the Mavi Ev (Blue House) is not even the best affair about the hotel. Nor is the acutely super-convenient location, just accomplish from the Byzantine Hippodrome, Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia), Topkapi Palace, the Mosaic Museum and added sights.

(The Zeytinburnu-Findikli (-Besiktas) Tram line—which takes you to Sirkeci Station, the Eminönü Ferry Docks, Galata Bridge, the age-old Roman alley of Divan Yolu, the Grand Bazaar, and (by alteration to the Metro) to the airport and Main Bus Terminal—is alone a few minutes’ airing beyond the Hippodrome.) (more…)

Location, location, location: Istanbul’s Tan Auberge has one of the a lot of acceptable locations in all of Sultanahmet. It is actually 30 meters (33 yards) from the Sultanahmet tram stop and the Hippodrome, and alone accomplish from abounding restaurants and shops, and yet it is quiet, set apart.

This abracadabra happens because it is at the end of a abbreviate street, just about the bend from the crowds, but not in them (Google map). It’s great!

The auberge itself is proudly glassy and modern, with big windows accouterment affluence of light; chichi architecture and furnishings; claret TVs, safe drop boxes, an elevator/lift, chargeless Wifi (wireless Internet) throughout the hotel, and avant-garde bathrooms with hair dryers and jacuzzi tubs. (more…)

Best auberge in Istanbul? The Four Seasons Auberge Istanbul at Sultanahmet gets my vote.

If you wish the city’s best, a admirable auberge with Ottoman character, affluence accessories and alluringly accomplished staff, in the best accessible area for sightseeing, this is it.

The celebrated Ottoman architecture was aforetime (and famously) a prison, but that’s beside the point. It is now anxiously adequate and acclimatized to abode a simple 130 guests in 65 bedfellow apartment (including 11 suites) served by a agents of 200, acceptation that there are added agents than guests. (more…)

“Picture-postcard beautiful” is one of those clichéd descriptions that is frequently abused to call situations area the postcard would accept to accept been at atomic 50 years old for it to accept had any meaning.

In the case of tiny little Assos on the North Aegean coast, however, it’s actually accurate, if alone because what a lot of humans anticipate of as Assos consists of no added than a scattering of admirable rock houses lined up forth a anchorage with no allowance larboard over for anyone to physique annihilation ugly. In absolute actuality “Assos” is the frequently acclimated name for a adjustment that aswell encompasses the added avant-garde apple of Behramkale top aloft it on the hill. But there too development has been gentle, and today a lot of of the little rock houses of the apple cook acclaim into the slopes as if they had been there forever. (more…)

At the arctic end of the Galata Arch beyond Istanbul’s Golden Horn lies the commune alleged Karaköy (Galata).

It’s a part of the city’s oldest and a lot of celebrated districts, and is today an important busline point, agnate to Eminönü, at the adverse (southern) end of Galata Bridge.

Although you’ll apparently get to apperceive Karaköy as a abode to lath a ferry, ship, tram or the Tünel (underground alternation to Istiklal Caddesi), it’s aswell a acceptable abode to buy hardware, fish, allowance and baklava, of all things. (more…)

Sultanahmet’s 4-star hotels: abundant location, adequate rooms, a lot of advantageous services, acquiescent multi-lingual staff—and character, too.

Although some of these hotels may not accept an official 4-star appraisement from the Turkish Ministry of Tourism, I amount them as accepting the comforts and prices adapted to 4-stars.

Mavi Ev (Blue House) Hotel

Among the best places to break in Sultanahmet, this family-run auberge appropriate beyond from the Blue Mosque has friendly, able staff, amazing angle from apartment and roof restaurant, and a chiefly acceptable area on Dalbasti Sokak (No.14) at Utangaç Sokak.

Sari Konak Hotel (more…)

The Istanbul Modern, as it’s alleged (or Istanbul Architecture of Avant-garde Art), is a accomplished avant-garde art architecture (Istanbul Avant-garde Sanat Müzesi) amid in a all-inclusive above berth barn in Tophane (TOHP-hah-neh) on the southern Bosphorus bank one km arctic of the Galata Bridge and Karaköy (Galata) and south of Kabatas and Dolmabahçe Palace. (more…)

What’s so dejected about the Dejected Mosque? Not much.

Istanbul’s administrative Abbey of Sultan Ahmet I (Sultan Ahmet Camii) is alleged the Dejected Abbey because of its autogenous tiles, mostly on the high akin and difficult to see unless you’re appropriate up there with them.

Forget the dejected tiles! The abbey (built 1603-17) is the masterwork of Ottoman artist Sedefkâr Mehmet Aga. It’s congenital on the website of the Abundant Palace of Byzantium, on the southeastern ancillary of the Hippodrome. (more…)

Is the Çiragan Alcazar Auberge Kempinski Istanbul the a lot of comfortable auberge in the city?

Many humans anticipate so.

The Çiragan (CHEE-rah-AHN) Kempinski has a acceptability for choice apartment and service, but it’s the location—right on the Bosphorus bank next to the adequate 19th-century Ottoman Çiragan Palace—that gives the auberge its caché.

The auberge itself is a avant-garde architecture advised in accord with the adequate palace. The 284 bedfellow rooms, 20 suites, and a lot of accessories (restaurants, bars, etc) are in the auberge portion.

The alcazar has 11 affluence suites, but its primary use is for meetings, conventions and clandestine functions captivated in its awe-inspiring accessible rooms. Auberge guests can usually aberrate through and adore the accessible apartment if they are not in use. (more…)