The Ladino language has a Spanish sentence structure, and contains vocabulary borrowed from Turkish, Greek and Arabic. It is the mother tongue of Sephardic Jews, who were forced to emigrate from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 and settled in the Ottoman Empire. Today it is dying.
The picture of Turkish singer Ajda Pekkan in the kitchen—or rather “her physique that put young people to shame”—became a topic on the country’s agenda.
The Aydın Doğan Foundation has in the recent years taken on the mission to improve girls’ education.
It is almost impossible for us to face each other anywhere merely as humans by removing all of our identities and labels.
An Istanbul court on Sept. 25 ordered the release of veteran journalist Kadri Gürsel in the third hearing of the case into Turkish critical daily Cumhuriyet.
I first noticed just how widespread the use of drugs in schools has become in Turkey when I did a news story on the subject two years ago.
A notice hung on the cafeteria door of a high school in the Mediterranean province of Isparta in 2013, announcing that male and female students should eat lunch separately, started out as an pilot implementation.
Dionysus, the son of Zeus, is the god of viticulture, fertility, wine and ecstasy in ancient Greek myth. Music, songs, dance and wine would always be in abundance in the places where he set foot.
An officially registered Art Nouveau mansion on 3.5 hectares of land on the Istanbul island Büyükada, as well as the works of many famous painters in the mansion…
