Articles tagged with: Ankara
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Saturday, 20 Apr, 2013
Ankara, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Çankaya Köşkü has been the official residence of the president of Turkey since the era of Atatürk, the founder of the modern republic. The presidential compound is comprised of a number of buildings, most famously Pembe Kösk, the iconic “pink villa.” This building was expanded, at Atatürk’s request, by renowned Austrian architect Professor Clemens Holzmeister. Atatürk later died at his presidential residence in 1938, which has served as the home of eve...
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With a staggering USD 482.3 billion in total revenues for 2012, and a business presence in over two hundred countries, Exxon Mobil is the world’s second-largest oil and gas exploration company. Described in Steve Coll’s Private Empire as a “corporate state within the American state,” Exxon owns thirty-six oil refineries worldwide, with a capacity of some 6.2 million barrels per day, making it the world’s largest oil refiner.
Exxon is famous not only for its size, but also for it...
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Tuesday, 26 Feb, 2013
Speaking at a press conference at the inauguration of the Istanbul Design Biennial, the chairman of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), Bülent Eczacıbaşı, pre...
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Monday, 18 Feb, 2013
My career as a diplomatic reporter began just a couple of months before the start of the First Gulf War. It was then that the sentence “maintaining the territorial integrity ...
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Saturday, 9 Feb, 2013
It seemed as though Turkey’s boisterous prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had finally lost his patience with the state of affairs in Syria, when he snapped at a recent p...
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Tuesday, 18 Dec, 2012
Terfi [ter-FIH], noun. promotion
It looked as though the Turkish government might be turning a corner, putting aside its authoritarian instincts and breathing new life into ...
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Saturday, 1 Dec, 2012
“You know how things work around here: they give with one hand and they take away with the other,” says a small, wiry man in a plastic mac—Bedrus Türker—as he stands l...
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Tuesday, 4 Sep, 2012
Choose a road in Istanbul and wait for the traffic police to pass. If the traffic is heavy, the megaphone on the roof of the police car will emit a series of angry ...
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Wednesday, 25 Apr, 2012
Today, Ankara and Beijing prefer to put their various differences to rest, and instead utilize their newly found economic and diplomatic might to advance their national interes...
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Saturday, 14 Apr, 2012
A revival of, or more accurately an intensification of, the ongoing yet veiled strategic rivalry between Iran and Turkey was all but inevitable once popular protests in the Ara...
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