Down below you will find a summary of topics from major Turkish papers and internet sites. Foreign spirits company expresses concerns over planned alcohol restrictions in Turkey The Turkish Parliament’s Planning and Budget Commission has submitted a proposal to a sub-commission for further restrictions on the sale and promotion of alcoholic drinks.  It is reported that Diageo, London-based company which own ...

Down below you will find a summary of topics from major Turkish papers and internet sites. Turkey’s current deficit declines $383 million in first quarter 2013 The Central Bank has reported that Turkey’s current account deficit reached $5.4 billion in March 2013.  This figure was US$ 4.9 billion in February and 15.9 billion in the first quarter which indicates a $383 million decrease over the same period of ...

Down below you will find a summary of topics from major Turkish papers and internet sites. Turkish PM says Turkey is a natural part of the European family While celebrating “Europe Day” Erdoğan stated that Turkey was a natural part of European family. Erdogan referred to the establishment of the EU and also said that he expected the EU to re-accomplish the courageous vision of its founders and show the dete ...

Ezinç which managed to rank fifth among the twenty largest companies producing solar energy systems worldwide, exports its own branded solar energy panels to eighty countries. The company started producing solar energy systems in Kayseri in 1978 and managed to export the first solar collector made in Turkey in 1994. Turkey's leading company in the solar energy systems sector now exports to 80 countries. Ezi ...

Down below you will find a summary of topics from major Turkish papers and internet sites. Turkish delegation to travel to Israel for second compensation talks It is reported that a Turkish delegation is planning to travel to Israel next week to have the second leg of compensation talks as part of normalization between the two former allies. Last week the first round of compensation talks had taken place in ...

Down below you will find a summary of topics from major Turkish papers and internet sites. Political parties divided over PKK withdrawal Turkey which has been going some major changes recently now faces a strong conflict bewteen political parties over the withdrawal decision as part of the peace process between the country and pro-Kurdish teror organization. In this context, Turkey’s main opposition parties ...

Down below you will find a summary of topics from major Turkish papers and internet sites. PM Erdoğan not to change plans to visit Gaza despite comment from Kerry Erdoğan is reported to have announced that visit to the Gaza Strip under the Israeli blockade is due to  proceed as planned. According to same report "The exact date is not certain but the visit is supposed to take place after PM’s visit to the US ...

Ayşe Kulin is one of the most prominent Turkish authors. Her books are very "INFORMATIVE" as well as entertaining .. Ms Kuılin has definitely a very loyal "portfolio of readers" after her success with beautiful novels such as "Her Name is AYLIN" and "SEVDALINKA" etc.. She graduated from the American College for Girls in Istanbul. For many years she worked in various sectors of the Turkish media. After some ...

Down below you will find a summary of topics from major Turkish papers and internet sites. BDP deputy Önder says PKK withdrawal may start in eight to 10 days “Preparations are being made for the withdrawal of (PKK) militants from Turkish soil within the framework of PEACE PROCESS and the operation may start in 8-10 days” as reported by ÖNDER, an Istanbul deputy from Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). The stat ...

ALFAN has become a Turkish brand in much demand around the world in the sector of poultry equipment, in a period of 2 decades only. The company owes this achievement to the know-how and experience it has been possessing over the ventilation fan systems since the 1981. The company has adopted the principles of using high quality materials for functionally designed products and offering the best quality for m ...

Artesis is a Turkish company developing “Condition Monitoring Systems” and Predictive Maintenance Technologies for electric motors since 1999. Monitoring more than 3,000 vital equipments in the world, Artesis is the choice of many organizations like US Navy and General Electric. Since 2009, giant global companies like GE, Invensys and Sumitomo have been marketing Artesis products under their own brands or u ...

Turkey should abide by the rules of the European Union and give up its expansionist designs, a conservative Greek Cypriot presidential candidate has said. Speaking to the Hürriyet Daily News at his newly-decorated presidential election office in Nicosia, George Lilikas said Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was guilty of having a “megalo idea” of expanding Turkey into a new empire with a neo-Ottomani ...

General Atlantic buys stakes in Turkish online food company Turkey’s online food ordering firm Yemeksepeti.com has just received a USD 44 million cash boost to fuel its international push with the addition of US-based equity company General Atlantic as a minority stakeholder. With a user base reaching 1.5 million people, Yemeksepeti.com provides online food ordering and delivery service, processing tens of ...

The Turkish state will not cease operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Southeast Anatolia until the militants lay down their arms, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said yesterday. “The terrorists should know that if they drop their arms, then the operations in the country will end. But arms cannot be silenced as long as the terrorists do not drop their arms. They would target ...

Turkey’s Foreign Affairs Ministry released the following statement on Wednesday regarding the heinous attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi Tuesday evening, which resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Tripoli Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. Foreign Service Officers. "We condemn in the strongest terms the terrorist attack which took place in the city of Benghazi in Libya on September 11, 2012 ...

In ongoing operations in the Southeastern provinces of Hakkâri, Şırnak and Diyarbakır, the Turkish Armed Forces has killed 115 terrorists. In Northern Iraq 25 terrorists have been killed. Chief of General Staff Özel paid a personal visit to the troops in Şemdinli, where seven battalions are engaged in a widespread operation on the terrorist organization. The PKK terrorist organization has been struck hard i ...

Investments are flowing into the east despite the best efforts otherwise by the PKK terrorist organization. With the GAP Action Plan alone, the government has made a 38.5 billion investment and will be providing 400,000 jobs. The East, which has fast become a new area of attraction due to a series of incentives, has managed to rake in a record-breaking 1.5 billion in investments in just seven months’ time. ...

A Turkish-Italian joint venture has won a tender to build a third suspension bridge over Istanbul’s Bosphorus. Turkey’s highways authority currently has 5,550 km long, 24 new build-operate-transfer model projects on the agenda, in its bid to cut energy expenses and gain time. The Northern Marmara highway project, a large plan that includes a third bridge over Istanbul’s Bosphorus, will save nearly $1.8 bill ...

Turkey's economy grew slower than expected in the second quarter and a deeper slowdown is expected during the rest of the year as domestic demand weakens, raising pressure on the central bank to cut borrowing costs more aggressively. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew 2.90 percent year-on-year, below a Reuters poll forecast of 3.25 percent, data from the Turkish Statistics Institute showed. First quarter gro ...

Turkish aid foundations working to resolve water problem in Africa Carrying out frequent aid campaigns in African countries in need, Turkish aid organizations are addressing the water problem on the continent and have dug over 1,500 water wells in Africa to provide clean water. Turkish humanitarian aid organization "Kimse Yok Mu" (Is Anybody There) has constructed about 200 wells in Somalia, a country strug ...

With campaigns geared towards sports, Turkish television manufacturers have conquered the European market. While Arçelik Grundig has sat itself in third place in Germany, with the aid of the Bundesliga, Vestel has caught on to a 70 percent growth. The coinciding of the German Bundesliga with both the European Cup and the Olympic Games, has worked to Turkish television producers' benefit. With their brand in ...

Sabancı Holding Chairman and Managing Director Güler Sabancı has been named the 93rd most powerful woman in the world by U.S. economy and business world magazine Forbes. The top position on the list remained the same as last year, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel taking the number one spot as the most powerful woman in the world for being a 'lead player in the euro zone economic crisis.' Following Merke ...

Jantsa and CLN to build a plant in Aydin at EUR 36 million Jantsa, a Turkish manufacturer of wheel rims producing mainly for the automotive and defense industry since 1977 and exporting to 80 countries worldwide, is forming a joint venture with Italian CLN Group, its biggest competitor in the global market. Both parties will have a 50 percent stake in JMW, the new joint venture that will be built in the Aeg ...