Stories about Turkey from November, 2005
Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere
This week was fairly quiet in the Kurdish Blogosphere compared to week's past. Many Kurds have been focused on the upcoming/ongoing trial of Saddam Hussein. One such blogger, Kurdo from...
Turkey is Typing…..
Welcome to the week that was in the Turkish Blogosphere…. Both Metroblogging:Istanbul and Turkish Torque reported this week about the new Picasso in Istanbul exhibit at the Sakip Sabanci Museum...
Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere
Iraqi Election Madness! As Iraq prepares for the December 15th parlimentary elections, the Kurdish bloggers are preparing as well. Vahal Abdulrahman from Dear Baghdad announced the formation of a new...
Turkey is Talking….
Every once in a while you find a statement from someone far away that captures the universality of the life we live in these modern times…I found this gem from...
Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere
New this week…. Kurdo from Kurdo's World was interviewed by The Kurdistani, a Kurdish news agency posting out of the United Kingdom. Kurdo's World is considered as the first Kurdish...
Steppin’ into the Turkish Blogosphere
Reviewing this week in the Turkish Blogs, November 10th marked the anniversary of the death of Mustafa Ataturk. Erkan's Field Diary has a wonderful article posted about the death of...
Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere
Well it has been a busy week in the Kurdish Blogosphere. Perhaps the most startling is the infighting between the members of the group blog the Kurdistan Bloggers Union. Having...
Turkey: Zaman
Erkan says, Zaman is the first online Turkish newspaper and as far as I know it is only paper that is completely translated from Turkish to English. It is again...
Turkey: Depressed Turkish Women
Ugur says, according to a survey conducted by Turkish Ministry of Health at 12,000 households, 19% of Turkish women are “slightly,” 24% “medium level,” 13% “a lot” and 8% “extremely”...
Steppin’ into the Turkish Blogosphere
After a 15 day hiatus, the Turkish blog review is back. I found some information on Turkish Podcasting! The website Kevin and Fatma take on the World! are in the...
Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere
New in Kurdish cyberspace is the announcement of a new Kurdish news agency called Firat News, while there is some critism from some Kurds, as it is currently published in...