Linguistics

"Hüzün" is a word sometimes untranslatable. It is a theme, it is a feeling, it is a state of mind for many writers and film directors in Turkey. "Hüzün" means melancholy, and John Bailey, a cinematographer currently heading the Oscars Academy, says it is an integral part of Turkish film-making, as well as international ones.

The media have lost much of the authority they once commanded as anyone with a keyboard and an internet connection can claim to be "media" these days.

The Greek political system has a unique ability to lose its bearings and sink to terrible lows. When this happens, it tends to involve the country in a lot of unnecessary drama, as everything becomes deeply personal and mercenary. The rules of civilized discourse are abolished, so there are no off-limits topics and no limits to the low-blows.

Record quantities of detained heroin, marijuana, cocaine and synthetic drugs are reported, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov announced during a National meeting of the MoI leadership. Smuggling cigarettes is known to have dropped below 5%, he added.

The Falcon government aircraft, which Prime Minister Boyko Borissov uses, has arrived in Brussels and got a flat tire on landing.

An 800-year-old book written in Hebrew was seized in southeastern Turkey, local officials said on Feb. 28.

Respected French academic Philippe Meirieu, best known for his work as a professor of education but also as a member of the Europe Ecologie - The Greens party, will be speaking at the French Institute on Tuesday, February 26.

As we enter the final stretch to the general election - however long this ends up being - the political rhetoric is becoming increasingly vitriolic, tension is rising and more mistakes are being made.

Stemming from the Ancient Greek word "toxikon," the English word "toxic" has been crowned as the word of year in 2018 by Oxford Dictionaries.

According to the dictionary, the word was the one that best captured the "ethos, mood, or preoccupations" of 2018. The word was judged to "have lasting potential as a term of cultural significance."

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.