It’s easy to see that citizens in different areas of Turkey do not exactly live under the same circumstances, and while there are developed cities, there are also quite a few underdeveloped ones. Unfortunately, the quality of education in these parts of Turkey is also very different from the luckier parts. While there are 45…
Nazım Hikmet is one of the most great poets of Turkey. In one of his poems, he says he is a walnut tree with one hundred thousand leaves. Here is the poem: The Walnut Tree My head a foam of clouds, the sea inside and outside of me, I am a walnut tree at Gulhane…
CNN México “A las revelaciones acerca de que la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional (NSA, por sus siglas en inglés) espió en 2012 al entonces candidato Enrique Peña Nieto y nueve de sus asesores, se agregaron este domingo nuevas pruebas de que Estados Unidos también espió en 2010 al presidente Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) y miembros de…
Recently, the US government had to cease all unnecessary activities because of its inability to agree on the new fiscal year plan. This caused thousands of people to be forced to take vacations without salary, trying to save money to the state. To prevent a possible uprising and extreme dissatisfaction of these people, a bill…
When the etymology of the word “modern” is looked up, (online etymology dictionary) the following definitions are encountered. The word is derived from Latin “ modo ‘just now, in a (certain) manner’, from modo (adv.) ‘to the measure,’ ablative of modus ‘manner, measure’”. It is evident that “modern” defines a certain manner or approach which…
When a group of people started an enviromental protest at the end of May, to protect the trees at Gezi Park, nobody had guessed the noise it will eventually make. The government had announced that they had other plans for the good old Central Park of Istanbul, which meant that they would cut the trees.…
When we go to college, the first thing we look for is inspiration. While young people are busy trying to get inspiratoin, older and experienced people try to inspire them. While we are young, we are always aware that we have a long road waiting for us and that we need guidance through that road.…
This year, for the first time, the French Institute of Istanbul -in cooperation with the Embassy- organized it. It took place in Maslak at the “Mutfak Sanatları Akademisi” in an auditorium. We went on November 6 with our ACI students to participate in this activity for one morning. We went with the 10 –…
Steve Jobs was a really successfull man both in his life and at his job. Some people may call it luck but the thing that made him successfull was not luck, it was fighting and never giving up for what you believed. To inspire people to never give up, Steve Jobs taught a lot of…
Recently, same sex marriage became a very popular subject in United States. More and more states are actually debating if they should allow it or not if they have not already, and a lot of people are protesting against or for it. Those two states of mind are really closely related to two different concepts,…
In the old times, invading and taking military action was a very common solution and all the intricacies of the war were frequently televised. However in the past decade, military action has become something that most of the countries are doing without saying anything to the media. Military action isn’t something that is talked about…
Antony Evans is the co-founder of the Glowing Plant project, in San Francisco, a synthetic biology application using bioluminescent to make plants glow in the dark. Unlike the European Union, the US does not ‘clearly’ regulate the approach that is used by Antony’s team, and his project did spark a heated debate in the US.…
Because of reasons like wars, religions and political events, political analysts think that 5 countries in Middle East would be 14. Examples are the anti- government protests in Iraq, the civil war in Syria and the uprising in Lybia. Maybe in 30 years Syria could divide into 3 countries; Alawites, A Syrian Kurdistan and The…
1930- THE SALT MARCH Around 1920-40 there was a big protest in India led by Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi (1869 – 1948). In 1930 there was a march called “The Salt March”.To protest at the government’s salt tax, Gandhi proposed a 240-mile march from Ahmedabad to the coastal town of Dandi. The reason for this march…
The human rights issue continues in Iran, although this time they are looking to put a stop to it all. The Iranian president Hassan Rouhani made a speech in the UN that gave hope to the minority groups in Iran. After the speech that Hassan Rouhani made on the 24th of September 2013, the…
Gay rights are one of the global problems with many trying to be heard. There are lots of news which talk about this problem. For example; “Gay Rights Rally In Russia Ends With Clashes, Arrests…” or “Russia’s anti-gay law…” cover the protests in Russia. Russia is not the only one; there is truly a gay…
In September 29, 2013, New York Times remapped the Middle East, mostly dividing the countries by people’s ethnic origins, for example Kurdistan and Alawitestan, or their sects, such as Sunnistan. In the map, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are divided to 14 other countries. From this map we can see the minority nations declared…
Miley Cyrus returned to the music business with her new hit “We Can’t Stop”. But this song was actually written for someone else: For Rihanna. Rihanna had wanted to work on her song “Pour It Up” so she couldn’t even listen to ‘’We Can’t Stop.’’ The producer Mike Will had to finish it. At the…