This week's post will be shorter than normal, please bare with me….
Turkish Torque celebrates his 1000th post this week [1], congratulations! Ugur has translated an excellent article about how the media and entertainment world is destroying Turkish culture [2] and comments on rumors of Muslim reformation [3]. He also writes about the new political chess game being played by the Turkish Foreign Ministry [4] and how it is reacting to the election of HAMAS in Palestine.
Talk Turkey writes about a future United States of Eurasia [5] that has created quite an interesting conversation and comments about the new Kurdish judge to replace the other Kurdish judge to try Saddam Hussein. [6]
A quite funny post from The Need to Know asks for the world to leave Iran alone, she wants a big bonus. [7]
Zen in the Kitchen writes about onion and garlic helping you to remember your left from your right [8].
Mavi Boncuk returns with a post about Ataturk's adopted children. [9] Snow is the subject of a post from Metroblogging:Istanbul [10] and well as one from Erkan's Field Diary [11], well actually not just one post, but two [12] and three. [13]
Amerikan Turk wrote about the big snowstorm in Istanbul [14]as well, but he also covered other items such as bedbug infestations [15], Turkish hostages in Iran [16]-a story missed by the main stream media coverage, and (my personal favorite of the week) a piece about buzzword word games in office meetings [17].
Find of the week: We Are the TURKS [18], a new blog dedicated to interviewing and writing about prominent Turks in American business and culture.