Balat l Istanbul l Turkey l 2010
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Galata Tower | Istanbul | Turkey | 2012
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Surprise, surprise: Majority of German Turks feel at home in Germany
Most Turks living in Germany feel at home and do not want to return to Turkey permanently, a survey has found. The study, reported in the Bild am Sonntag newspaper, found 78 per cent of German Turks feel at home in their adopted country. One in five said they would like to return to Turkey for good. ...
President Obama: The Liar-in-Chief in the White House
Frank de Varona All presidents in America have had to lie occasionally to Americans and people around the world. Some have done it for national security reasons and others to cover up scandals in their administrations. All Americans remember that President Bill Clinton stated under a deposition in t ...
Islamic State ambushes Iraqi military column near Ramadi
A photograph of an abandoned Iraqi military column with the Ramadi Teaching Hospital, which is just across the Euphrates River, in sight. Fighters from the Islamic State in Anbar Province ambushed and destroyed a large Iraqi Army column in a village north of Ramadi. The successful attack occurred de ...
As long as they gaze on Waterlook sunset, they are in paradise
By now the sun was setting, reminding us of sunsets past, and also nagging us that we were staying out too late. The shoreline is beautiful at night, though, especially as the lights of the rides and of the redemption games and the arcade spill into the muggy evening air. We cheated ourselves out of ...
Extra Credit: Syrian Tidbit
During the turmoil that has been taking place in Syria over the past few years, refugees have been fleeing the country, producing an economic strain in the surrounding areas. Turkey has allowed the 163,161 Syrian refugees (as of January 29, 2013) to rent private accommodation and access to the fifte ...
Europe & China Start Direct Trading In Euros & Yuan As De-Dollarization Expands
De-dollarization has been an ongoing theme hidden just below the surface of the mainstream media for more than a year as Russia and China slowly but surely attempt to "isolate" the US Dollar. Until very recently, direct trade agreements with China (in other words, bypassing the US Dollar exchange in ...
Preview: Jim Henson’s The Musical Monsters Of Turkey Hollow By Roger Langridge
I got a good glimpse of this at San Diego Comic Con (before my hotel room was flooded, washing it away…) The Musical Monsters Of Turkey Hollow, adapted from a never-made TV script by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl, Roger Langridge has attempted to recreate a unmade musical muppetal TV Thanksgiving script ...
Turkey mulls joining anti-IS coalition as militants near border
DAMASCUS: Islamic State fighters have closed in to within a few kilometres of a key Kurdish town on Syria's border with Turkey, as Ankara mulls joining the anti-IS coalition. NATO member Turkey on Monday (Sep 29) deployed tanks to reinforce its side of the ...
Turkey mulls joining anti-IS coalition as jihadists near border
Ankara: Islamic State fighters have closed to within a few kilometres of a key Kurdish town on Syria`s border with Turkey, as Ankara mulls joining the anti-IS coalition. NATO member Turkey on Monday deployed tanks to reinforce its side of the border and ...
