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Numerical guide to Turkish editors

Never use the numerical phrase '52 percent' in any of your texts, even if it is an economy story. Other problematic numbers in the Turkish language are 31 and 69. Avoid them altogether Dear editors in Turkey,  

CHP's 'Center Turkey' project

When you ask which feature is Turkey?s most important in terms of comparative advantages, all foreign investors reply ?geographic position.? Turkey?s second advantage is its young population. 

These two features have been engraved in our minds ever since elementary school but somehow we can never make use of them as a country. 

Experts cannot determine how the codes were cracked

Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor Tekin Küçük wrote the indictment on the wiretapping of crypto phones. The indictment reviews the results of the analyses of the experts from the Telecommunications Communication Directorate (T?M).

A Mercedes affair

Turkey is full of political controversies, and not all of them are really significant. The recent controversy over a luxury Mercedes car bought for the head of the Directorate of Religious Affairs ("Diyanet" in Turkish) was arguably significant, though. 

Not because of the car, nor because of the Diyanet, rather because of what it exposed regarding the political mentality in power.

Turkey and the limits of urbanization

We in Turkey compare ourselves to Europe. It is too often a heartbreaking exercise, which is why our persistence in the practice is so telling. I think that, deep down in our hearts, we know that Turkey belongs to the West in general, and to Europe in particular.

Platform calls for solidarity among women deputies

One of the issues people have wondered the most about ahead of the June elections is how much the ratio of women deputies in parliament will increase. It is being calculated that the current 14.4 percent ratio of women deputies in parliament will, most probably, increase to around 18 percent. 

ISIL expands under the shadow of Iran nuclear talks

According to the U.S. administration, the capture of Ramadi by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) only some 100 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad was something ordinary regarding the bigger picture of the war.

But almost simultaneously ISIL entered Syria?s historical city of Palmyra, gaining control over parts of it in the direction of the capital Damascus.

Hittite king comes to Istanbul

For a new project begun within the scope of Museums' Week, the Bilkent Cultural Initiative (BKG), the largest museum store chain in Turkey, has brought 3-D printing technology to the Topkap? Palace Museum Store, displaying a 3-D printed reproduction of a sculpture of Hittite King Suppiluliuma for visitors. 

HDP co-chair says bomber from ISIL

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? has said the assailant who carried out twin bombings against his party's buildings in southern Turkey was linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) rather than the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).

IPI supports Hürriyet over Erdo?an's words

Members of the International Press Institute (IPI)?s Executive Board called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and his supporters in the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to ?immediately halt a disingenuous campaign of vilification against the Do?an Media Group and its daily newspaper Hürriyet? that has raged this week, the IPI said in a statement on May 22.

Turkish government pledges 10,600 more tablets for students

The Turkish government will deliver 10,600 tablet PCs in the next four years, beginning from 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said, noting that the production of the equipment would be conducted both in Turkey and abroad. 

Party organizations and citizens apathetic during election campaign: President Erdo?an

Political party organizations and citizens in Anatolia are apathetic towards pre-election campaigns, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said. 

?Both party organizations and citizens in Anatolia are apathetic, in silence. We don?t know what will be result of this apathy,? Erdo?an said late May 21 speaking in a televised interview. 

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