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Ayvalık, an authentic village of your dreams

Ayvalık, a small, summer-time authentic village is a place where all your dreams can come true, from drinking great coffee to fabulous ice cream. When Istanbul days become too much, Ayvalık is a solution to your problems In Ayvalık, you can find many artistic workshops or flea markets and therefore this place is like heaven to me.

On the day after

There are several speculations about the day after the presidential elections. It is as if some of our friends travelled in time, saw Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win the presidency with a comfortable majority in the first voting on Aug. 10 and appointed a prime minister and chairman to the Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Politics at its lowest

This Sunday, millions of Turks will go to ballots to vote for their next president. This will be the first time that the presidency, the top post in the republic, will be elected by popular vote. In this sense, the upcoming elections could be seen as a sign of maturation for Turkey’s almost 140-year-old democratic experience, which goes back to the first Ottoman Parliament in 1876.

Boeing hands first Chinook helicopter to US army

United States aircraft manufacturer Boeing has delivered the first multiyear II configured CH-47F Chinook helicopter to the U.S. Army, as Turkey – along with some other countries – are waiting for the delivery of the chopper that become famous during the Vietnam War.

Opposition candidate İhsanoğlu: 18 million additional ballot papers printed

Presidential hopeful Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu has raised concerns over the transparency of the upcoming elections, as he has said some additional 18 million ballot papers were printed.

He based his claims on the figure presented by a recent study by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) group.

Erdoğan ads ‘cover all of Turkey’

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has requested to rent all of the available billboards in Turkey for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s soon-to-be-concluded presidential campaign, a representative of the main opposition claimed.

Turkey welcomes truce, urges Israel to end operations into Gaza

Turkey has welcomed an Israel-Hamas cease-fire that went into effect on Aug. 5 and is meant to last three days while underlining that the groundwork for the truce was laid with the “constructive conduct of the Palestinian delegation in negotiations being held in Cairo.”

Turkish economy minister expects negative revision from Moody’s

Turkey’s economy minister has said he expects ratings agency Moody’s to revise Turkey’s grade downward, despite the “well-bound course of the Turkish economy,” accusing the agency of acting according to political motivations.

Top three books to read before their movies are released

Everyone has a different preference when it comes to whether to read the book or watch the movie first. If one wants to discover as much about a story as possible, although more time consuming, reading the book first is usually more rewarding than watching the movie. A big portion of movies are based on books, some loosely and some entirely.

Second wave launched against police officers in wiretapping probe

A second operation was launched early Aug. 5 against police as part of the “illegal wiretapping” probe in 14 provinces across Turkey.

Police raided colleagues’ residences at a number addresses around Istanbul, daily Hürriyet has learned. The list of detentions include 33 police officers according to initial information.

At least 51 percent locality sought for domestic goods

The Turkish government is planning to bring a 51 percent local content requirement for indigenous industrial products as part of a new regulation designated to encourage national production.

Paintings of Sabancı’s collection on display

The Sabancı Museum in Emirgan is once more showcasing sublime works produced by Turkish masters over the past 100 years, including paintings by Osman Hamdi Bey and others that were awarded in Paris over a century ago.

Turkey plans Iraq camp to prevent refugee flow

Ankara is mobilizing aid to protect Iraqi Turkmens on the southern neighbor’s territory in response to the threat posed by the jihadist ISIL Turkey is accelerating its plans to help construct a new refugee camp in northern Iraq for Turkmens who were forced to flee north after the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL) captured the Sinjar region.

Turkish voters fail to show up at ballot boxes abroad

A total of 232,000 Turkish citizens voted at ballot boxes overseas in the first round of Turkey’s presidential elections, falling far behind the government’s expectations in the first year of the undertaking.

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