Languages of Europe

Turkish President Abdullah Gül was subjected to a pointed question May 30 at Harvard University about police violence in Turkey on the anniversary of the Gezi Park protests.

Serkan Demirtaş serkan.demirtas@hdn.com.tr Revising Internet policies and continuing necessary economic and political reforms are in the interests of Turkey, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has suggested, stressing that the country’s only path forward is through Europe.

AGERPRES correspondent Ruxandra Constantinescu reports: Romanian literature is for the third straight time present at the Madrid Book Fair with a stand organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) in the Spanish capital city.

Experts at the Justice Ministry have still been unable to find an appropriate formula to pave the way for the retrial of those who were convicted of plotting to overthrow the government, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ acknowledged.

Parliament’s Internet filter system has blocked the website of a Protestant church in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır due to pornographic content, according to the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Bursa deputy Aykan Erdemir.

Turkey has condemned a fatal weekend attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels, while vowing continued support for efforts against religious intolerance and xenophobia.

The new interactive social media platform launched by Hürriyet’s news website is a “revolution for media outlets,” chairwoman Vuslat Doğan Sabancı has said.

Turkish pharmaceuticals company Eczacıbaşı has registered the word “eczacı” – pharmacist in Turkish – as a trademark, triggering reactions from other sector representatives.

Well-established Turkish business group Eczacıbaşı registered 45 different versions of the word as a trademark with an application to the Turkish Patent Institute (TPE).

Commenting on the results of the European Parliament elections in the Guardian on May 26, British historian Timothy Garton Ash concluded by declaring: “I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: ‘This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up.’”

Kayaköy, an old Rum village in the slopes, carrying the fading shadow of the past I am excited, happy and angry at the same time. Excited and happy because I went to Kayaköy near Fethiye. Angry? Because I went to Kayaköy… Let me first tell you this: During one of your first coming holidays, you have to go to Kayaköy; it is a magnificent place.