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DHL Express has signed a memorandum of understanding with the operator of Istanbul's third airport, IGA, in a bid to make Turkey a regional logistic hub with around 60 million euros of investment, the company announced at a press meeting March 4. 

The Istanbul State Opera and Ballet (IDOB) has chosen a mythological piece for this season?s first classic ballet premier.

?Syliva,? the mythological love story uniting the huntress Sylvia and a lovelorn shepherd with the divine intervention of the deity Eros was first choreographed by Louis Merante to music by Leo Delibes in Paris in 1786.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has used the Savarona, the official yacht of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, for the first time ever to host a foreign leader.

It took less than a year for a Turkish court to block the website of the country's first official atheism association.

The TÜRVAK Cinema-Theater Museum in Istanbul is currently hosting its "100 Years of Turkish Cinema Through 100 Illustrations" exhibition.

The 22nd ?zmir European Jazz Festival held by the ?zmir Foundation for Culture Arts and Education (IKSEV) will be organized between March 5 and 21.

During the festival, jazz audiences in ?zmir will have the chance to listen to the music of acclaimed names in European jazz.

Turkey's stock exchange Borsa Istanbul said yesterday it plans to go public, in Ankara's latest move to bolster its $220 billion equity market that has punched below its weight for years.

Borsa Istanbul, the country's only stock exchange, plans to list up to 43 percent of its capital through the sale of most of the shares now held by the national Treasury.

Kaim Saduev has died in Istanbul after eating wild garlic sent from Chechnya. His relatives claim that it is a 'Litvinenko-style murder' A Chechen activist has died in Istanbul after being hospitalized with his family members for food poisoning, as some of his relatives and Turkish activists accuse the Russian intelligence agency of poisoning wild garlic sent to him from Chechnya.

Luxurious Gulf hotel chain Jumeirah Group will begin to run its second hotel in Turkey, the Golden Savoy Hotel, in May after the historic Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah.

The new hotel is planned to be opened on May 1 in the Aegean resort of Bodrum in line with a deal inked by the group with Turkey's Hedef Investment and Tourism Facilities.

It is not every artist who could see a woman's hat in a red farmyard faucet, but works on display in Istanbul show the 20th century Catalan painter and sculptor Joan Miro in a playful mood in later life.

"Women, Birds, Stars" at the Sak?p Sabanc? Museum features 125 paintings, prints, sculptures, tapestries and ceramics, including loans from the Miro family's personal collection.