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Just recently, the city of Istanbul saw the opening and commissioning of the world's largest and safest earthquake-proof building in the world. The structure covers an impressive area, but it's completely isolated from the ground below. It does not rest on the soil, but rather on a few hundred bearings, whi... |
23 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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There's no shortage of companies or even countries wanting to get their hands on some of Google's wealth, sometimes rightfully so, though, most of the times, the claims are a little weak. Now, Turkey is having a go at it by claiming that Google owes the country 71 million Turkish Lira (approx. €32 mill... |
3 November 2009
10:50 GMT |
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Turkish authorities seem to have their own notions of free speech, as they proved on March 16th, when they actually deported two peaceful activists with the International Rivers environmental nonprofit group, who showcased a banner at the World Water Forum. The material said “No Risky Dams,” and was a dir... |
18 March 2009
03:27 GMT |
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A serious plane crash has taken place today in Holland, when a Turkish airliner collapsed to the ground while carrying 135 people. Preliminary reports hint at the fact that light fog was responsible for the crash, which nevertheless claimed the lives of 9 people, according to Dutch airport officials. An additional 50... |
25 February 2009
14:01 GMT |
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If you're planning to go shopping for Christmas wrapping paper this year, enjoy it, because it may be the last year when festive wrapping paper is actually made from, well, paper. Next year, you could witness the introduction of a new kind of decorative paper, made up of turkey feathers. It would appear that Bri... |
24 December 2008
05:01 GMT |
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Neonode N2, the Sweden-manufactured small and fashionable touchscreen handset released this year, is now officially being launched in Turkey. The device should go on sale staring November, after its official presentation, which will take place during CeBIT Eurasia 2008, the event held in Istanbul between October 7 an... |
3 October 2008
05:30 GMT |
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While North America is still waiting for it, RIM's latest high-end smartphone, the BlackBerry Bold 9000, is being released in more and more non-American countries. The latest market to get the Bold is Turkey, the Eurasian country that has a population of slightly over 70 million. RIM has launched the Bold via ... |
19 August 2008
04:29 GMT |
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The Turkish cyberspace is dealing with serious problems regarding censorship. For the past two years ago, several video hosting websites have been banned. Their creators were accused of infringing upon the integrity of different public persons or institutions. YouTube itself was banned a couple of times, but it'... |
18 August 2008
08:25 GMT |
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Paris Hilton has a very good opinion about herself - that much is fact. In fact, it's safe to call Paris Hilton her own biggest fan - however, most would agree that it's not that wise to go public with that particular opinion, all the more so since the vast majority of this planet's inhabitants have a ... |
29 March 2008
06:57 GMT |
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Bad news for Americans everywhere: Paris Hilton abandoned the land of the stars and stripes and is now intent on conquering other nations and continents. The starlet is currently accompanying her new beau, Benji Madden, and his band Good Charlotte on a world tour that has already taken them to Africa. The happy duo -... |
28 March 2008
06:01 GMT |
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This is the Turkish World's Wonder. In the residual relief made of tuffs and basalt lava, persecuted Christians carved churches, monasteries and dwellings. Goreme National Park, with a surface of 9,576 hectares, is located in central Anatolia, between the volcanic mountains Hasan and Erciyes, in the Nevsehir Pro... |
20 March 2008
09:55 GMT |
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I know that when it comes to celebrities there's always a good chance to hear something either incredibly witty or incredibly stupid coming out of their mouths - and as a general remark, I'd tend to point out the fact that it's more often the latter than the former. We've heard celebrities gush ou... |
22 January 2008
06:55 GMT |
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When you're most bored and have nothing to do, you start surfing the Internet and in particular the social networks in order to see how your friends have been doing. I don't know if that's the way it works for you, it does for me. And while merrily browsing through my account on MySpace, I just chanced... |
21 January 2008
06:11 GMT |
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YouTube has a lot of problems on its hands because of the copyright infringement that is being forced against by the protected content its users upload. It's always been kind of a ballet of jumping over lawsuits and pivoting around big bucks decisions. The bad part with it all is that they mean almost nothing in... |
21 January 2008
02:38 GMT |
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The truth was out there. It's here right now: World of Warcraft is made in Turkey and there's no doubt about it. And it might be cotton, too. If you think I'm losing my mind, please click the thumbnail to the left, you will immediatelyunderstand.That is a picture made by a guy named Paul, somewhere in ... |
26 November 2007
04:36 GMT |
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Following yesterday's news that Google updated the search engine suggestions, a new update is revealed today as the Mountain View company's officials confirmed that this feature is now available in several new countries. A few days ago it was reported that Google has been working on the 'Did you mean&#... |
18 October 2007
03:01 GMT |
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The well-known video sharing YouTube is again banned in Turkey after its users uploaded insulting clips concerning the country's authorities. In case you forgot, YouTube was first blocked in Turkey in March for the same reason. At that time, a user uploaded videos insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a national hero... |
19 September 2007
05:19 GMT |
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Every day brings a new flavor of the Google products because the folks from the Mountain View company continuously struggle to expand the services of the giant. However, today Analytics, the famous solution powered by Google, gets two new versions that are meant to complete the recently rolled out updates. If you did... |
25 July 2007
03:32 GMT |
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Google's advertising platform makes an impressive trip around the world as the parent company is continuously promoting and releasing new flavors in every country on earth. Inside AdSense - the blog that is meant to keep the consumers up-to-date with the latest news concerning the advertising platform - is now a... |
26 June 2007
03:34 GMT |
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Google Maps was recently improved with multiple locations, the parent company including fresh imagery with detailed roads, buildings and cities. However, the Mountain View-based company didn't announce the update officially, Google Earth Blog reported that high-resolution photos are now available for Russia, Tur... |
27 April 2007
06:17 GMT |
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Some time ago, numerous Turkish Internet users signed a petition to require the search giant Google to place doodles on their regional version of the search giant. The Turkish Googlers considered the Mountain View based firm is avoiding to publish new logos on their page and designed their own Google doodles to celeb... |
24 April 2007
05:22 GMT |
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Once in a while, Google replaces its official and well-known logo with a new one especially meant to celebrate certain events or a national day. Because the search giant has Google domains in almost every big country of the world, it's very difficult to manage and organize the doodles for every regional version ... |
3 April 2007
09:28 GMT |
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YouTube Turkey is again available after the largest ISP in the country blocked the service after a court decision. A court ordered the ISP to restrict the access to the video service after numerous users uploaded clips that insulted Turkey's residents and demanded the search giant to remove all the movies from t... |
12 March 2007
09:12 GMT |
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YouTube is one of the most popular video-sharing services on the Internet, allowing users to upload, share and comment movies with other members of the community. Because it allows all the registered members to publish their videos, Google received several complaints, the company being accused for uploading content w... |
7 March 2007
10:01 GMT |
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