After being imprisoned for five years in Palestine, Gilad Shalit was released with a price of freeing 1027 Palestine soldiers. This event was under big discussion for years. The question was: Did releasing 1027 Palestinian soldiers was worth an Israeli soldier; and what did both governments get from this deal? Releasing 1027 Palestinian soldiers was…
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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…
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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…
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The USA government has decided to have a shutdown because they were not able to find a resolution for the economical problems towards 2014. Obamacare has had some loop holes while in progress and now there are complications that can not be solved. “About 800,000 federal employees were indefinitely furloughed without pay, another 1.3…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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.…
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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 –…
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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…
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Pınar Selek is a sociologist who has been accused to be the main reason of the bombing in “Mısır Çarşısı” which killed seven people. The irritating and disturbing side about the case is that, she was arrested for being a terrorist and kept in prison for two and a half years. Fake reports were presented…
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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,…
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Abdullah Ocalan, head of the PKK which killed thousands of Turkish citizens, is now kept in a prison which provides doctor control, healthy food, an LCD television and most importantly, a warm bed. On the other hand; Mehmet Y. is a harmless Turkish citizen who has a brain disease which cannot be fixed without a…
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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…
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What’s new on the agenda is that PGCC (Persian Gulf Cooperation Council) has banned the entrance of homosexuals in their countries. Kuwait has built a ‘medical homosexual radar’ and is planning to test it and make routine examinations on the expatriates. Banning the right of homosexuals to enter their countries is practically and theoretically and…
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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.…
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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…
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