A UNIVERSITY student has come away with the top prize on ‘Kim Milyoner Olmak İster?’ [Who Wants to be A Millionaire?]. Arda Ayten answered a question on Turkey’s national anthem correctly to win 1 million Turkish lira on Friday night, 5 October. Viewers had been left hanging from the last series about whether nineteen-year-old Arda […]
PEOPLE in Turkey throw away 26 million tonnes of food every year, the head of an anti-waste lobby group has said. The startling figure was revealed by Aziz Akgül, chairman of the Turkey Waste Reduction Foundation [Türkiye İsrafı Önleme Vakfı], in a story published by the Anadolu news agency. The amount lost or wasted every […]
Pegasus Airlines has been named the ‘National Winner’ for ‘Digital Technology’ at this year’s European Business Awards, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious business competitions. Turkey’s second largest carrier was one of 363 businesses from 33 countries to win at the national level, and now goes through to the final phase, hoping to […]
A POWERFUL earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter Scale shook Istanbul on Thursday lunchtime, causing people to rush on to the streets in panic. It was the city’s second major earthquake in as many days. About a dozen people were injured, but there were no known casualties. However, some structural damage has been reported, including […]
TRIBUTES were paid over the weekend to a young Turkish woman who documented her fight against cancer on social media. Neslican Tay, 21, died on Friday, September 20, at a private hospital in Istanbul where she was being treated since September 15. She was a student at the city’s Bahçeşehir University, and had won hearts […]
Senior ministers from Turkey and North Cyprus, as well as expert speakers from the UK and elsewhere are to take part in a major conference on the Cyprus issue in Ankara this week. The event in the Turkish capital, hosted by the Turkish Bar Association (TBB) and called the “Last Word from Cyprus”, will take […]
Barcelona midfielder Arda Turan has been sentenced to two years and eight months after being found guilty of firing a gun at a hospital and injuring Turkish pop star Berkay, whose nose was broken following a fight with the hot-headed footballer. However, Turan – who is currently on loan at Turkish club Istanbul Başakşehir – […]
Wins over Andorra on Saturday and Moldova on Tuesday evening saw Turkey rise to the top of Group H in their Euro 2020 campaign. Turkey turned in a lacklustre performance against the group’s weakest opponents Andorra at home in Istanbul at the weekend. Although dominating for large spells, the Turks could not find a way […]
Turkey’s Sultans of the Net came close to causing a major upset at the final of the European Volleyball Championships against reigning champions Serbia this evening, in an exhilarating game that saw the lead swap multiple times. Bolstered by a noisy home crowd of some 12 thousand in Ankara, Turkey took the early lead, winning […]
Turkey beat Poland 3-1 in the second semi-finals of the Women’s European Volleyball Championships earlier this evening, to book their place in the final against reigning champions Serbia. In-form Eda Erdem Dündar was again Turkey’s top scorer, with a tally of 19 points Roared on by home fans at the Ankara Sports Hall, the ‘Sultans […]
