DUBAI

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.

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.

Turkish tennis player Marsel ?lhan has climbed to the top spot of his career in the new world rankings announced March 2, jumping 27 places to sit in the 77th spot.

The spot is also the top ranking a Turkish player has ever held.

LONDON - World number one Novak Djokovic moved further ahead of Switzerland's Roger Federer, in 2nd place, in the latest ATP rankings, posted on Monday.

Despite the defeat in the final in Dubai, Djokovic increased his lead, since Federer merely defended his title, while Djokovic stayed in the tournament longer than lasy year, when he was ousted in the semifinals.

DUBAI - World's best tennis player Novak Djokovic failed to win the fifth title at the Dubai ATP as he lost the Saturday match to Switzerland's Roger Federer, 6-3, 7-5.

By defeating Djokovic, Federer won the 84th title in his career and currently has the upper hand over Djokovic in mutual matches with the score at 20-17.

DUBAI - World's best tennis player Novak Djokovic failed to win the fifth title at the Dubai ATP as he lost the Saturday match to Switzerland's Roger Federer, 6-3, 7-5.

By defeating Djokovic, Federer won the 84th title in his career and currently has the upper hand over Djokovic in mutual matches with the score at 20-17.

DUBAI - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and Pakistani player Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi did not manage to win the title in the Dubai ATP in the men doubles category as they lost the final match on Saturday to India's Rohan Bopanna and Canada's Daniel Nestor, 6-4, 6-1.

DUBAI - World number one Novak Djokovic reached the final of the ATP tennis tournament in Dubai, after defeating Czech Tomas Berdych 6-0, 5-7, 6-4 on Friday.

Djokovic will try to win his fifth Dubai trophy, and to do that, he will have to overcome Swiss Roger Federer, who beat Croatia's Borna Coric 6-2, 6-1.

DUBAI - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Pakistan's Aisam Qureshi are through to the semi-finals of the Dubai ATP doubles tournament after beating the French-Czech pair of Jeremy Chardy and Lukas Rosol 6-1, 6-2 in the quarter-finals on Thursday.

The 2nd Greek Deluxe Travel Roadshow that taps into the potential of the Middle Eastern tourism market is being held in Istanbul on April 2, following an event held in Dubai. These events follow recent Greek SETE Intelligence (InSETE) figures that show that there was a 33% increase in the number of arrivals from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2014.