What’s International Women’s Day about? Well, in Turkey it seems to be about giving women big discounts to make them live up to the standards of women’s beauty. So on Women’ s Day you can get lingerie at greatly reduced prices, make up for half the normal price, and curls in your hair for free if you get a haircut. …
At the end of March, local elections will be held in Turkey. The political contest in Diyarbakir, the biggest Kurdish city in the southeast of the country, will be one of the most exciting. Wordt Vervolgd talked to Kurdish youth there. Will the voter let his Kurdish or Islamic identity be heard at the ballot box?
Diyarbakir – Don’t …
I’ve only been active on the twitter network for a very short time, but with last week’s Turkish Airlines plane crash near Schiphol Airport, I got some interesting experience about twitter. First of all it was sort of weird to see that after some people twittered about the crash and I mentioned it too, the BBC and CNN …
Criticism of Turkish authorities in Turkish papers
ISTANBUL – Pride in the pilots of the crashed airplane and appreciation for the Dutch rescue workers in the Turkish morning newspapers, but there is also criticism: authorities in Ankara were too ready to declare that there were no fatalities to be mourned. As well, there is quite a lot of speculation over the cause of the crash.
Most critical is …
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