Starwood Hotels & Resorts Reaches Ten Hotels in Turkey with the New Sheraton Adana Hotel
ADANA, Turkey--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) has today announced the official opening of its tenth hotel in Turkey, the Sheraton Adana Hotel, in partnership with SERKA Turizm A.Ş., an Adali Holding Company.
Turkey granted permission to build first mosque in Cuba
Cuban Muslims have until now had to make do with performing congregational prayers in a living room of Pedro Lazo Torre, the leader of Havana’s Muslim community. The Cuban government has approved plans for the country’s first mosque after Turkey's ...
Man jumps to death as Turkey cop chooses to take selfie instead
London: A policeman in Turkey faces investigation as he was caught taking a selfie even as a man prepared to commit suicide from a bridge behind him.The inaction of the selfie-obsessed cop sparked a fury in Turkey as he was seen posing for a snapshot just ...
Turkey tries to amp up its border security as the threat from ISIS rises
The Islamic militants who held and murdered Steven Sotloff, and fellow American journalist James Foley before him, maintain a stronghold in northeastern Syria not far from the border with Turkey. "You stand on one side, on the very tip of NATO's southern ...
Turkey Hosts Internet Forum Despite Its Dismal Web Freedom
ANKARA, TURKEY- The site selected for the United Nations forum on developing Internet policy is generating a great deal of controversy, with critics taking aim at the irony of Turkey's poor record regarding social media, Web sites and press freedom.
Turkey Targets 'Jihadist Highway'
ANTAKYA, Turkey—Turkey is struggling to close a "jihadist highway" that lets foreign militants slip across its border into Syria, amid pressure from Western governments and mounting security fears at home. Turkish forces have stepped up arrests, patrols ...
FIBA World Cup: Turkey Defeats Finland In Overtime
Turkey defeated Finland 77-73 in a thrilling game that would need to be decided in overtime in group stages of the 2014 FIBA World Cup at Bizkaia Arena in Bilboa, Spain. Neither side was consistent. Finland outscored Turkey 41-27 in the first half, but the ...
Denmark 1 Turkey 2: Tufan stunner wins it for visitors
Ozan Tufan's stunning injury-time strike gave Turkey a 2-1 friendly victory over Denmark in Odense. Bursaspor's teenage midfielder Tufan came off the bench with 14 minutes remaining of Wednesday's clash, and he opened his full international account in ...
Critics Talk Turkey At Istanbul Internet Governance Forum
They’re usually bland annual gathering of Internet regulators and technical experts nitpicking over the wording of public policy draft resolutions. But this year’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is already generating more than the usual amount of ...
Turkey 45th-most competitive market, Switzerland at top
The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) 2013-2014, published on Wednesday, ranks Turkey as the 45th-most competitive market among 148 world economies. Turkey has fallen one ranking in this year's list. The report places ...
