Culture

A driver shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") ploughed into pedestrians in eastern France Sunday, injuring 11 of them, just a day after a man yelling the same words was killed in an attack on police officers.
      
Two of the people injured in the car attack in the city of Dijon were in a serious condition, a police source said, adding that the driver had been arrested.

A Turkish university is planning to develop a new lie detector unique to the Turkish people, on the grounds that "some statements which are regarded as a lie in western countries are not a lie for Turks."

Turkey’s economic and political institutions have always been part of a “sultan’s state” and this can only be overcome by public demands from below for more human rights, freedom and transparency, according to leading economist Daron Acemoğlu.

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has vowed not attend ceremonies held each year in the Central Anatolian city of Konya in honor of Mevlana Jalaladdin Rumi, on the grounds that government officials have "politicized" the ceremonies.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) hails the anniversary, on December 18, of the Day of National Minorities, the preservation and development of the culture and identity of the persons belonging to national minorities in Romania being extremely important.

The phrase in the headline could soon become how kindergarten teachers greet their students in Turkey. An education director in a southern province recently became the first official off the starting blocks, after a National Education Council decision to implement religious classes in kindergartens, disguised as “values education.”

BELGRADE - An exhibition of saris under the title 'SARI: The Magic of Indian Weaves' opened in the Serbian parliament on Tuesday.

The exhibition was organised in collaboration between the Embassy of India in Belgrade and the New Delhi-based Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR).

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has extended holiday greetings to the country’s Jewish citizens on the occasion of Hanukkah, which began Dec. 16.

In a written statement, Erdoğan wished Turkey’s Jews tranquility, peace, happiness and health for the holiday.

A trial against 35 individuals associated with Beşiktaş’s football fan group çArşı on charges of “attempting to overthrow the government” during last year’s Gezi Park protests has started at Istanbul’s Çağlayan Courthouse.

The group received massive support from a crowd that included main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputies.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Turkey’s annual Ambassadors’ Conference would take place in the western Çanakkale province next year, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli.