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Saturday, November 21, 2015

Thanks God, there will not be a “meteorite tax”

Finance minister says ‘no’ to meteorite tax in Turkey’s east

After discussions both on traditional and social media, including a Twitter poll by the country’s finance minister and an official investigation, it has been decided villagers in the eastern province of Bingöl who found and sold meteorite pieces at inflated prices did not need to pay taxes for this sort of income

Man to do 1,812-hours of cleaning in Istanbul mosque as punishment

A local court has ordered a Turkish man, who has been on trial on the charge of “negligence” in a Syrian worker’s death in a landslide at a construction site, will spend 1,812 hours cleaning a mosque

TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE : 17 Trans Women Killed in Turkey in Last 4.5 Years

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1,933 trans homicides committed in total in 64 countries as of 2008, Turkey ranks first in Europe.

AKP is Turkey’s only mainstream party, all others ‘marginal’: PM Davutoğlu

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is the only political party representing the whole of Turkey, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has stated, claiming that all other parties were “marginalized” in the Nov. 1 general election

Leyla Zana Begins Parliamentary Oath in Kurdish

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Oath of Leyla Zana who started her speech saying “Aşiti” in oath-taking ceremony in the Assembly hasn’t been accepted.

Speaker declares Zana’s oath null and void due to ‘Turkish nation’ rewording

Speaker of the Turkish parliament has declared an oath taken by a leading Kurdish politician null and void due to the latter’s rewording of the oath

Beşiktaş Municipality changes street name to ‘peace’ in Turkish and Kurdish

Istanbul’s Beşiktaş Municipality has change the name of a street in the district to “Barış-Aşiti,” meaning “peace” in Turkish and Kurdish. The move comes as an expression of solidarity with the municipality in the violence-hit southeastern province of Hakkari

Questions raised over Babacan’s role in new cabinet after G-20 no-show

Questions have arisen over the possible future cabinet role of former Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, after he failed to attend the G-20 Summit in Antalya

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Monday, August 24, 2015

A maths teacher @ekolhoca uses @Periscopeco for educational purposes and already covered in the Independent…

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Ekol Hoca, from Izmir in Turkey, is not an ordinary maths teacher.

Every day he’s at the whiteboard by 5.30am, ready to instruct more than 1,000 students via the livestreaming app Periscope – and he doesn’t even get paid for it. Continue to read here

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Housing, food and transport total over half of household spending in Turkey

The results of a new survey by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) have shown the majority of household spending in Turkey in 2014 went to housing and house rentals, food and transportation.

Syrian migrants denied entry to İzmir mosque

A group of Syrian migrants have been denied entry to a mosque in the Aegean province of İzmir, after spending days at the mosque in an effort to secure basic living needs, such as food and accommodation.

Turkey’s blue collar workers cite poor conditions as main reason to find new job: Poll

A majority of blue collar workers have named poor working conditions as the biggest reason to find a new job, according to a survey by Eleman.net, a leading recruitment website for this group of laborers.

Best souvenirs to buy from 30 places in Turkey

Are you traveling in Turkey and not sure what souvenir to buy or what local speciality to try in which place? We have a list for you, inevitably dominated by traditional art and food

VIDEO: Istanbul street band attacked for playing ‘Jewish marches’

‘You can’t play Jewish marches here, you can’t play Israeli music here,’ an angry man told the band members in Istanbul’s Avcılar neighborhood while they were playing ‘Bella ciao’