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• Visiting SALT: A hub of cultural activity

  The place is called simply SALT. It has the widest range of cultural activity from urban problems to film shows. The visitors can contribute too.

  22/12/11 - 03:36

• Europeans learn Islamic banking

  The crisis shaking the financial world leads to new trends one of which is Islamic banking. In Brussels, two training courses are launched for those who want to learn everything about Islamic banking. ‘If everybody would have banked according to the sharia’, one of the organizers says, ‘there would be no crisis’.

  11/12/11 - 22:42

• Photography mingles with art at “Ultramemoire”

  Art exhibition at the French Cultural Institute displays works by artists who get their inspiration from photographs.

  5/12/11 - 01:55

• KREK: A complete new approach to theater

  At Santral Istanbul KREK theater is displaying a new approach to dramaturgy. Their works are also going to be performed in Europe.

  25/11/11 - 01:58

• Cervantes’ left hand

  Until the 25th of November, an art exhibition about Cervantes’ left hand is being held at Karşı Sanat Galerisi in Istanbul. The project is the result of collaboration between twelve Turkish and Spanish artists.

  10/11/11 - 02:46

• Despite ban no way to control killer jeans

  Sandblasting is banned in Turkey, but what happened in the rest of the world? Did the problem emerge elsewhere? Or did jeans companies finally find out that the profits aren’t worth the lives?

  24/10/11 - 11:33

• Shake-up in Turkish military

  Commanders of armed forces branches except the gendarmerie asked for their retirement collectively. Although President Gül said the situation was “extraordinary” but no crisis should be expected, the outcome of the Supreme Military Council meeting this week might lead to other resignations from the ranks.

  1/08/11 - 05:21

• Erdogan announces his pharaonic project for Istanbul

  Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced his colossal project for Istanbul. It is a man-made 45-kilometer long, 150-meter wide and 25-meter deep canal that would connect the Marmara Sea to the Black Sea just west of Istanbul.

  27/04/11 - 11:57

• Italian satirist Sabina Guzzanti at Bilgi

  Italian satirist, commentator and filmaker Sabina Guzzanti was a guest of Domino lectures at Bilgi’s Santral campus this week.

  13/04/11 - 09:02

• New wave of journalists’ arrests sparks reaction at home and abroad

  Four years after the trial began another group of journalists, including Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener, find themselves arrested on charges of belonging to the Ergenekon terror gang. They are the most unlikely suspects because both are known by their research work against the “deep-state.”

  6/03/11 - 05:14

• Roma community seeks solution in organizing

  Few years ago there was hardly any organization within the Roma community in Turkey. Today there are 110 Roma associations organized in 11federations all over Turkey. Hacer Foggo, a human rights activist focusing on the problems of the community explains how the Roma people decided to seek solutions to their problems by organizing.

  14/12/10 - 07:06

• A traveling Czech in a most unlikely place

  What the heck a Czech girl passing the Islamic feast of sacrifice in a remote village with only five houses in eastern Turkey near the Armenian border? Moreover, she is in this country for the first time.

  6/12/10 - 15:57

• An English philosopher at football stand

  Stephen Mumford is the head of Humanities School at Nottingham University, U.K. He is a philosophy teacher with a PhD. From Leeds University entitled “Dispositions and Reductionism.” But this introduction should not mislead the reader. He is by no means a long-haired, bearded, spectacled, and pensive philosopher. This is maybe due to his interest in football that goes back to his childhood years.

  25/04/10 - 18:19

• Polonezkoy: Struggling to preserve its Polish identity

  In the Istanbul suburb, surrounded by woods in the company of wild animals lies a place which used to be called by the inhabitants, the ‘Polish oasis in foreign land’. More than a century-and-half after its foundation Polonezkoy is struggling to retain its Polish character.

  17/10/09 - 17:54