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Shooting at sun won't cool down Earth: NASA scientist to Turkish girl
In contrary to what some locals in the southern Turkish province of Adana do, shooting at the sun with a gun will not cool down the Earth, a NASA scientist has told a curious Turkish schoolgirl.
Turkish man gets stuck in car in odd position after accident
A Turkish man has found himself stuck in his car in an odd position following an accident in Istanbul.
More than 500,000 adults attend 'literacy courses'
In February, a campaign dubbed "Mobilization for Literacy" was launched to teach adults how to read and write. Since its launch, 504,985 women and 59,466 male have attended the program in over the past eight months.
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22 unique experiences in Turkey, from petting stray cats to oil wrestling
If you come to Turkey, you should not leave without experiencing at least some of its uniqueness. See, hear, feel, eat, travel, have fun and love in Turkish style. Click through our list of unique experiences that you can only have in Turkey...
Biggest Turkish companies by revenue
Capital magazine has published its annual list of the biggest Turkish companies. Click through for the top 20 Turkish companies in the Capital500 list published in the magazine’s August 2018 issue...
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Concerns grow about Greek soldiers' fate
Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos on Wednesday accused Turkish authorities of "playing with human lives" after it emerged that two Greek soldiers who have been in a Turkish prison since March without charge could face two years in prison.
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Turkish mufti says 'women should not see each other naked while swimming'
A top religious official of a northern Turkish province has stirred outcry on social media by claiming a woman "should not reveal her body to another woman while swimming."
Boy makes 'miraculous escape' after mom's car runs over him in Istanbul
A three-year-old Turkish boy has emerged unscathed after his mother's car ran over him in an incident that ended with what some Turkish social media described as a "miraculous escape."
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin as "common language"
Linguist Ranko Bugarski said this on Thursday while promoting his new book, "Do you speak common (language)," published by Biblioteka XX Vek - and added that this language has been separated into four for political reasons.
"From the political and administrative, but by no means from the aspect of linguistics, we have four different languages," Bugarski said.
Women farmers becoming more educated, report shows
The education level of women farmers has risen significantly in recent years, according to a report commissioned by the General Secretariat of Gender Equality.
More specifically, 35.3 percent completed secondary education, compared with 13.2 percent in 1998, 18 percent in 2003 and 26.6 percent in 2008, and 4 percent have university degrees, compared with just 1 percent in 1998.
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