June 16, 2014

Int'l language festival singing finale ends with great show in Romania

The finals of the singing competition at the International Language and Culture Festival, which brought together about 100 students from 27 countries under the motto “Hearts United” this year, was held in the Romanian capital of Bucharest on Sunday.

TUSKON-led trade volume reaches $30 billion

The Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists (TUSKON), a broad business initiative with 55,000 members, provides extensive support to businessmen who seek to make a contribution to the national economy. In addition to its many other activities, TUSKON held 19 world trade summits between 2006 and 2013 and hosted 40,000 domestic and 30,000 foreign businessmen and industrialists. The trade bridges created at these meetings have led TUSKON to generate a trade volume of $30 billion so far. Unlike some similar initiatives, TUSKON doesn't neglect small and medium-sized enterprises. The most recent summit was held in November 2013 at the Istanbul Convention Center and saw the participation of more than 2,000 guests who concluded deals worth $500 million. The number of deals reached increases at every meeting.

Romania hosts song contest of Language and Culture Festival

The song contest final of the 12th International Language and Culture Festival was held in Bucharest on June 15.

Kimse Yok Mu provides vocational training for Palestinian orphans

Esref, a 14-year-old at Kimse Yok Mu’s vocational school for the orphan in the Western Bank, has been learning Turkish language at the country’s first ever language and culture center. “You’ve brought hope for the Palestinian orphans. You changed the mood here,” Esref said and expressed his thanks. “We are now more hopeful about our future. We love Turks.”

Private high school declared green space

The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) recently declared a piece of land on which a private high school had been being built to be a green space, according to representatives from the school who spoke to Today's Zaman on Sunday.

Romania hosts 12th International Language and Culture Festival finals

The final leg of the 12th International Language and Culture Festival will be held in the Romanian capital of Bucharest on June 15-16.

Political fundamentalism in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt

With increasingly aggressive and intolerant posturing, Turkey's controversial prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been rapidly transforming what used to be a successful progressive party, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), into an organization that mainly features the characteristics of political fundamentalism in this predominantly Muslim nation.

Failed policy!

Ali Bulaç

The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has not adopted Islam as a reference or source of identity in its policies.