Volunteer doctors willing to take time away from their families and practices to provide critical health care to areas in need both domestically and internationally are planning to increase their efforts in 2010.
Volunteer doctors to continue prescribing hope in 2010
Although religious vocational imam-hatip schools are always a hot topic for discussion in Turkey, they are increasingly becoming a model for other countries.
İmam-hatip schools in demand for export
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the government will initiate legal reforms to expand the scope of freedom of the press in the face of ever-increasing pressure on journalists.
Goverment to expand freedom of the press in 2010
The recent resignation of longtime Hürriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Ertuğrul Özkök has stirred a debate over the years-long practice of hiring older journalists as columnists and the lack of interest younger readers show in their columns.
Elderly columnists fail to meet young readers’ needs,
colleagues argue
The failure of Hürriyet daily’s Editor-in-Chief Ertuğrul Özkök to correctly read the transformation in Turkey and his use of the media power in his hands for the interests of his boss have led him to resign from his post at the newspaper, a situation described by fellow journalists as the “end of an era” in [...]
The year we’ve just left behind was a critical time for civilian-military relations in Turkey, with the topic not only being the greatest source of tension in 2009 but also seeing landmark developments as for the first time in Turkish history, a legal change allowed the trial of military officers in civilian courts.
2009 leaves [...]
“Due to our old habits, we have been facing difficulties in adapting ourselves to today’s laws.
Demise of military’s privileges shakes status quo
PERFORMING ARTS The İstanbul State Opera will present Gaetano Donizetti’s three-act comic opera “Don Pasquale” on Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. and on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Süreyya Opera House in Kadıköy.
Cultural Agenda
Forget Shakespeare. Don’t count on Donne. Shelley and Keats! This is poetry for the rest of us — bad poetry! Pamela Russell’s un-exalted (but thoroughly hysterical) poems mock, chide, accuse, tease, joke, undermine, point and laugh at the world around us — and at anything that takes itself too seriously. Who knew bad poetry could [...]
Photographer Stefan Schutz traveled through Africa over many months in an SUV, crossing countries and landscapes, seeking that other Africa remote from the major routes. The results were fascinating photographs of people and landscapes that we have not seen from this perspective before and that bring us closer to the mystery of Africa.
‘VIEWS OF [...]