Tag: Turkey

The following is the simplified translation of a letter written as an answer to a university student by Sayyid ’Abdulhakîm Efendi while he was the senior professor of tasawwuf at ...

The unprecedented popularity of the Turkish TV series ‘Yabancı Damat’ (Foreign Groom), featuring an intercultural love affair between a Greek man and a Turkish woman, seems to have opened the ...

Turkey desperately needs more dialogue and democracy to solve its woes, President Gül says amid an ongoing row on today’s Republic Day festivities. Turkey’s priorities remain the promotion of democracy, ...

Despite an earlier ban from the governor’s office, political parties led by the CHP and NGOs seem determined to hold a Republic Day march in Ankara. Political parties and nongovernmental ...

Turkey expects 33 million visitors next year. Turkey expects its tourism revenues to reach $25.4 billion next year with an estimated 33 million visitors, according to a government program for 2013. The figures ...

Barack Obama has warned Americans to take Hurricane Sandy seriously as authorities started shutting down the eastern seaboard ahead of its arrival. Several states have declared emergencies, with tens of ...

As Turkey celebrates the 89th anniversary of the republic, a historian says Turkey is one of the few states in the Islamic world that comes close to the concept of ...

Michael Jackson is no longer the world's highest earning dead celebrity, according to Forbes. Actress Elizabeth Taylor has overtaken the star pulling in $210 million (£130m), much of it from ...

A metal door set into a mountain in Switzerland offers a way out for fine art investors forced to pay over the odds to insure their collections. The doorway leads ...

Yoko Ono was not responsible for splitting up The Beatles, Sir Paul McCartney claims in a new TV interview. "She certainly didn't break the group up," the 70-year-old will be ...