July 1, 2014

‘We would like to increase the number of Turkish schools'

The top advisers on education to the Senegalese president and prime minister are Ousmane Sow and Bouhacar Signine, and both men have only praise for the Turkish Yavuz Selim education organization, which works in Senegal providing important education services to youth.

They prepared their homes as though expecting visitors from heaven

The fact that the annual Turkish Olympiad turned into the Language and Culture Festival this year, and that it took place in Germany, no doubt made Turkish citizens living in Germany the happiest of all.

'It is a great loss that Turkish Olympiads were not held in Turkey'

The efforts of Justice and Development Party (AK Party) municipalities and districts to ensure that the Turkish Olympiads were not held in Turkey this year led to some strong reaction.

They came from all over the world and raised the esteem in Germany

The International Language and Culture Festival's closing ceremonies, which took place at the 12,500-person-capacity ISS Dome in the German city of Düsseldorf, sent out messages of peace that are still reverberating.

'We wish we had spoken Turkish in its motherland'

It was the students who were most saddened by the fact that this year's 12th Turkish Olympiad was forced to move abroad due to the lack of venues allocated to the competition.

Officer targeted by gov't witch-hunt commits suicide

A witch-hunt launched by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government in response to corruption allegations targeting Prime Ministers Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's inner circle has cost the life of one police officer, according to his family.

Kimse Yok Mu begins to deliver food packages during Ramadan

With the arrival of holy month of Ramadan, international charity organization began to extend hand to economically disadvantaged people.

Bal asks whether Erdoğan is trying to suppress religious communities

Former Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy İdris Bal submitted a parliamentary question to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday, asking whether Erdoğan regards himself the Caliph of the Muslim world and whether the prime minister is trying to suppress religious communities in Turkey.

İstanbul Municipality continues signboard discrimination

The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, which recently removed the signboards of a building that is home to the officers of the FEM and Anafen prep schools, which are affiliated with a faith-based movement Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is not fond of, has not removed any other buildings' signboards in the same area, manifesting its continued discrimination against opposition.