Culture

A tattooist in the western province of İzmir has offered to tattoo the names of Alzheimer patients or people with mental disorders on their bodies

'When the last fish dies, we’ll learn that money is not edible. I wish we could have understood that we eat fish, not money. Maybe then we would know the value of the sea.'

LGBT rights conference held in Belgrade

BELGRADE -- Democratic societies, especially those who aspire to join the EU, must treat the respect for LGBT rights as an issue of respect for universal human rights.

This was heard from participants at a two-day conference in Belgrade, "The future belongs to us: LGBT rights on the road to the European Union".

Driven by a false sense of class and masculinity, defined by women, drugs, faux-Armani style and a new language of Turco-gangster slang, the nouveau macho is not new to Turkish cinema

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met Sunday with Christoph Straesser, German federal government commissioner for human rights policy and humanitarian aid, who stressed that holding a gathering of LGBT people in Belgrade would be of great importance.

BELGRADE - Democratic societies, especially those who aspire to become part of the European Union, have to treat the issue of respect for LGBT rights as an issue of respect for universal human rights, said participants at a two-day conference in Belgrade titled "The future belongs to us: LGBT rights on the road to the European Union".

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to unite people. That is exactly what happened when the Ottoman good-will frigate Ertuğrul met a typhoon, only to be saved by the Japanese, uniting the two civilizations in a fraternal embrace from that point forward

The Association of Turks in Serbia has launched an initiative to introduce the Turkish language as an elective subject

Details of next year's 14th Istanbul Biennial, a citywide exhibition organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (Ä°KSV), have been announced.

The biennial will be open at venues across Istanbul between Sept. 5 and Nov. 1, 2015, and its title and framework, “Saltwater: A Theory of Thought Forms,” was drafted by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and a number of partners.

The 13-th edition of the Tattoo Fest Sofia will take place on October 4-5 in the 4km Party Center.

Besides the tattoo booths, the festival will offer stands selling jewelry, clothes and accessories.