www.PerpetualTraveller.infoEuropean and Asian, frenzied and solemn, monumental and popular: spanning the Bosporus, the sprawling Turkish metropolis recounts its ancient splendour with its mosques,palaces and...
" A teenager was killed when he rode his trail bike into a wire strung between trees on a country track. Ryan Acaster, 17, had been riding his high-powered machine in woodlands close to several farms. As he went...
Quoting Tracy Roberts: "the best pedicure I ever had." Interesting. I think this place in northern Virginia is the only store that practices this carp eating dead skin pedicure. If anyone has bad feet or just want to...
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Tourists live dangerous in Turkish mountains.Kurdish people blocked already german highwaysyears ago, was it a failure to let them just go? The rebels have been fighting for self-rule in southeastern Turkey since...
Opinion Barry Artiste. Now Public Contributor Smugglers in Human Suffering, whether based in Turkey, Iraq, Vietnam, Mexico, etc will always have a place where turmoil and misery rein. Smugglers who know all too well...
Apparently the issue about the wearing of head scarves in the classroom being a problem in Ireland was a story created by the media nevertheless there are now many people jumping on the bandwagon. Today (19th. July)...
Gone are the days when Kuwait feared another Sadam Hussein´s bloody incursion into its territory. Now, Iraq is not under the reins of the Baath Party but Shiite leadership and trying to get rid of foreign patronage. After weeks considering the resumption of...
" Updates: According to FT article:Turkey indicts 86 over alleged coup plot by Vincent Boland which was published: July 14 2008, this indictment comes along another investigation in a local "... power struggle between the government, with its Islamic leanings,...
Many ex army officer & several others including a journalist have been charged for coup plot in Turkey. "A top Turkish prosecutor has brought charges against 86 people allegedly involved in a coup plot. Aykut Cengiz Engin did not name those charged, but the indictment...
Update: July 13 | - A suspect in Wednesday's U.S consulate shooting in Istanbul is being investigated for links to terror groups."A Turkish court on Sunday ordered a man to be held in custody over an attack on the U.S. consulate in Istanbul in which six people were killed,...
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UPDATE: I was looking around trying to figure out why Iran would lie about this. I don't think it has anything to do with Iran's Shahab-3 missile being based off of North Korea's No-dong (no kidding) missile. Maybe...
Turkish Airlines opened its Viet nam representative office in Ha noi Monday and named the Huong Giang Aviation Service Company as its general agent in the country."The carrier will joint Vietnam airlines and Thai...
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The New York Times is reporting that unidentified gunmen opened fire on Turkish security guards outside the United States Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday and at least three officers were killed, the governor of Istanbul said. Governor Muammer Guler, quoted by...