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Month: January, 2010

The Stone-Throwing Children

8 January, 2010 (14:27) | human rights, istanbul, News from Istanbul |

Tweet This story comes from Today’s Zaman, printed on 03 January 2010, Sunday. It illustrates a situation that many tourists are not aware of – the internal problems of Turkey. I published this story on the Imagine Istanbul website because it deals with the Human Rights of the Child in Turkey.  For every action  – [...]

Train Crash in Turkey

3 January, 2010 (12:52) | News from Istanbul |

Tweet News from Istanbul, Turkey Two trains have crashed in Turkey in the north west of the country, near the cities of Eskisehir and Bilecik.  One of the drivers was killed and at least three other people have been injured. The cause of the accident was a failure of one of the trains to stop [...]

Happy New Year Istanbul 2010

3 January, 2010 (12:24) | Films, istanbul, Music, News from Istanbul |

Tweet Happy New Year Istanbul 2010 and to all of my readers of this Istanbul blog. 2009 was a difficult year for many with the world wide recession that affected every country.  None were left unscathed by economic woes.  Many people lost their jobs and tourism revenues were down world wide.  In Europe, there was [...]