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The Cem Foundation, a foundation that represents a portion of Turkey's Alevi sect, has asked the Turkish Education Ministry for the concepts of "Salafism" and "jihad" to be removed from the renewed education curriculum, saying these concepts could make "radical religious groups" feel encouraged.

Three of my mail groups, all of which consist of men and women between the ages 40 and 60, sent the same message in the last few days: An email allegedly sent by businessman and once-upon-a-time politician Cem Boyner to his employees that urged them to stay in Turkey, rather than seek a life elsewhere.

Three of my mail groups, all of which consist of men and women between the ages 40 and 60, sent the same message in the last few days: An email allegedly sent by businessman and once-upon-a-time politician Cem Boyner to his employees that urged them to stay in Turkey, rather than seek a life elsewhere.

Turkey's economy has been experiencing difficult times, but such times trigger creativity for companies, especially when they use digital data in an efficient manner, according to a leading businessman. 

When ?pek Cem Taha, the daughter of a former Turkish foreign minister (who passed away in 2007) decided to initiate a lasting idea to maintain her father's personal commitment for peace, the first door she knocked on was that of Yorgo Papandreu.

Finding a solution in Cyprus is important for a region suffering from ethnic and religious conflicts, according to former Greek Prime Minister Yorgo Papandreu.

Mariya Stoyanova, a member of the Council of Electronic Media (CEM), will be the Bulgarian regulator's chair ad interim, the council has decided.

Stoyanova will replace Georgi Lozanov, who resigned in February, a month before his term of office expired, saying he did not want to be involved in the licensing of a TV station.

Bulgaria's broadcast media regulator CEM has delayed until next week its meeting on the resignation request submitted by its chairman Georgi Lozanov, Nova TV station reported on Tuesday.

The meeting has been postponed because not all members of the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) were able to attend it, Nova said.

A religious service was held at an Alevi house of worship which has been turned into museum, the Hac? Bekta?-? Veli dervish convent, for the first time after almost two centuries with the cooperation of Alevi associations from Turkey and Europe. 

This simulator lets you make projections and consider scenarios for today's general elections in Turkey. Turkish visual designer Deniz Cem Önduygu, software engineer Eser Aygün and data scientist Amaç Herda?delen, who are the founding partners of the website Çilek A?ac? (Strawberry Tree), had explained the election simulator they created to Hürriyet Daily News on May 2.