The topic of the headscarf and the turban are still discussed in contemporary news, regardless of more important topics. This is due to the immense amount of pressure felt by both sides: those who choose to wear them, and those that don’t. The following are my personal observations. The wearers of the turban are much…
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Hilal Kaplan is an important columnist who writes for the Taraf newspaper. She believes that democracy and free will should let people to be able to wear the headscarf. She is currently giving a fight for this with her articles. Have you experienced any problems since you’ve started wearing a turban? Yes, I have. When…
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Water in plastic containers are in general not healthy, and the use of some kinds of containers contain cancer risk. Those kinds of grade plastics [number 3, 6 and 7) should not be used in food products. You will often find that they are used indiscriminately in Turkey. The numbers are on the bottom of…
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Murat Gülsoy is a prominent Turkish author. His post-modern self-consciousness gained him a huge reputation as an elegant author. He was awarded with Sait Faik Hikaye Armağanı in 2001. He is also an associate professor at Boğaziçi University Biomedical Engineering Faculty, teaching Biophotonic classes; he has published many articles on laser systems design. We know…
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There are a lot of high school students in Turkey who are on the threshold of choosing a job for our future. Some have chosen their future job, but some have not and are unstable. The key idea for deciding your job is: “Trust yourself, and make sense.” Do not worry about your future job…
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People have family, relatives, friends, friends of friends, someone who is sitting their nearby in bus or whatever, and they have relationships between each others. Sometimes the reason of the relationship is just love, but sometimes it is just for someone’s benefits. Relationships are really important for people’s lives, because people need to talk with…
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Allowing turban in universities has always been a vital topic for the Turkish politicians since the 1950’s. Especially with the Ak Parti becoming the majority party in the parliament, the turban became a fragile symbolism for conservative citizens. Recently, YÖK approved the turban in universities which caused a huge commotion among people who call themselves…
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Süleyman Demirel is among the most prominent figures in Turkish Politics. He was born in Isparta. Demirel served as the prime minister of Turkey for 10 years and 152 days (second longest after Ismet Inönü). Later on, Demirel served as the 9th President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000. You served the most years in…
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The Olmypic Açı Swimming Pool opening ceremony will be held on February 30th and Michael Phelps is expected to be present Halil Berktay congratulates Can Aşardağ for being elected as the SC President Aydın turns down Harvard University acceptance for Orkan University Guiness Book of Records has accepted Açı Highschool’s application for the amount of…
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Modern, urban parents in 2010 are damaging their children more than prehistoric man did, according to Professor Darcia Narvaez from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Professor Narvaez says that today’s mothers and fathers are too preoccupied with their careers, blackberry addictions, and TV programmes to give their children the nurturing they require. The situation…
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Dr. Esther L. Barazzone is the president of Chatham University. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in European Intellectual History from Columbia University, where she was a Fellow of the Faculty. She received a US Student Fulbright award to Spain and studied at the Wharton School of Business Administration and at Harvard University’s Institute for…
DetailsTeresa Lewis, aged 41, was the first woman to be executed in the State of Virginia in nearly a century. Two questions arise from this particular death sentence. Firstly, was Lewis ’crime so bad that she deserved to die, as she didn’t actually pull the trigger? Secondly, the decision to end her life was based…
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