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Turkish court sentences three over executing stray pooches

Three men on Jan. 27 were condemned to 10 years in jail each for harming stray canines in capital Ankara.

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The Heavy Penal Court No. 5 in Ankara additionally forced a correctional fine of 15,000 Turkish Liras (almost $2,524) on every litigant.

The choice was invited by creature activists viewing the preliminary.


The prosecution said the litigants executed 16 pooches in Ankara with chicken meat plunged in pesticide.

On. April 12, 16 wanderer hounds discovered dead by harming in a recreation center in Batıkent suburb of Yenimahalle locale.

The recording demonstrating the pooches in desolation as local people hurried to the scene created an open scene all through Turkey.

An examination found that the pooches, which were being sustained by local people in the recreation center, kicked the bucket because of eating poison-included chicken meat tossed out from a white vehicle.

Frequently portrayed as a safe house for stray creatures, particularly for felines wandering aimlessly in its urban communities, Turkey every so often faces episodes of brutality, remorselessness and maltreatment against creatures.

Various recordings and pictures demonstrating people beating, tormenting stray mutts and felines, developed over the most recent few years, has activated across the board open objection.

Creature activists have since quite a while ago battled for viciousness against creatures to be characterized as a wrongdoing rather than offense, notwithstanding exasperated punishments.

Existing laws just force fines for violations against creatures.


In the midst of mounting pressure from the general population, the Turkish government had hurriedly reported another pastoral bill for basic entitlements, which was sent to parliament in April 2018, and promised to organize it in front of the June 24 decisions a year ago.

One-and-a-half year on, the enactment is still yet to be received.

The individuals who set out to torment creatures will get four months to three years in jail, as indicated by the new bill.

On the off chance that the culprit abuses the opportunities of different creatures in a similar occasion, their sentence will be expanded by one-and-a-half times, ascending from a half year to four-and-a-half years in prison, as indicated by the draft.

Low tide uncovers antiquated port in north Aegean town

The remaining parts of a 2,500-year-old antiquated port were uncovered without precedent for an age because of a low tide in Turkey's northern Aegean town of Ören.

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"I've been climbing up here for a long time. I've been viewing the shoreline. It's the first occasion when I see such an immense low tide," said neighborhood inhabitant Timur Yılmaz, who is a resigned military sergeant.

"We can even observe the 2,500-year-old Adramyttium port. In this way, the low tide is very huge," he included.

Development foreman Kemal Işi concurred with Yılmaz, saying that he has seen the majority of the port just because.

The ocean level diminished around two meters, occupants said.


Ören is inside the limits of Burhaniye locale of the northwestern Balıkesir area.

Adramyttium, or Atramyttion, was an antiquated city and ministerial office in Aeolis, in cutting edge Turkey. It was initially situated at the leader of the Gulf of Adramyttium, on the River Caicus in the Plain of Thebe, 4 kilometers west of what is today Burhaniye, however later moved 13 kilometers upper east to its ebb and flow area and got known as Balıkesir's Edremit locale focus.

Turkish furniture segment set to widen its worldwide nearness

Turkey, which made $3.5 billion furniture sends out a year ago, is getting ready to open two furniture shopping centers in the U.S. what's more, Dubai in coming months.

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While the nation's furniture part proceeds with its reality in the worldwide market as far as fares, it plans to make a worldwide brand and lasting deals channel abroad.

Koray Çalışkan, the leader of the nation's most seasoned furniture showroom and an investor of undertaking MODOKO, said the shopping center in the U.S. will open in the first 50% of this current year in Quite a while state and Dubai venture will be finished inside two months.

As a component of the undertaking, furniture shopping centers will deal Turkish furniture results of various brands.

Turkish classic furniture | Classic furniture


The undertaking was together propelled by MODOKO, another driving furniture showroom MASKO and Kayseri Organized Industrial Site (OIS), Çalışkan revealed to Anadolu Agency.

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While working of shopping centers in Dubai and the U.S. was organized, the point is to open new shopping centers in better places in the U.S. what's more, various pieces of the world, he noted.

Turkey and the U.S. as of late focused to reach $100 billion reciprocal exchange volume and the furniture division was among five fundamental parts.

"With this venture, Turkey will have a worldwide brand and changeless outlet for advancing and sending out the nation's furniture items," Çalışkan underlined.

Undertaking will add to trade target


Addressing the U.S. venture, Çalışkan said reads for the shopping center are keeping, including a significant piece of the work has just been finished.

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The shopping center in the U.S. will give administrations, for example, the board, deals, montage and coordinations.

"We are sitting tight for the endorsement procedure and methodology for motivating forces, it will be reported in the main portion of 2020," he included.

Çalışkan affirmed that these shopping centers will build Turkey's fares fundamentally, including every shopping center will see tremendous measure of marketing projections in a brief period.

Reminding that the nation's furniture trades came to $3.5-4 billion level from $100-150 million level in 15 years, he said the area's 2023 objective is $10 billion.

Çalışkan included that the segment needs new techniques for arriving at this objective and the furniture shopping center venture will add to the nation's fare target.

"Our part received the venture and a few brands have gone along with it," he said and noticed the nation's furniture plants have little limit, however this sort of collaboration will assist the division with meeting the interest.

The furniture shopping center task is likewise expected to contribute side divisions, for example, the house-product and floor covering parts, and prepare for little undertakings, which at present needs more ability to send out merchandise.

The task will likewise advance Turkey's image esteem abroad.

Turkey's natural aquifers draw in Russian guests

Natural aquifers in northwestern Turkey are drawing in Russian vacationers searching for an approach to mend different medical issues.


Within the Pamukkale Hierapolis complex is Cleopatra’s Pool (hot springs sometimes called the Pamukkale Antique Pool). The hot springs, with its mineral rich waters are said to be good for illnesses such as skin diseases, circulation problems, rheumatism, heart diseases and many other ailments and people flocked here to find relief for their diseases.

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Holidaymakers, particularly the individuals who experience the ill effects of rheumatic torment, skin and metabolic infections, favor Yalova region to appreciate the underground aquifers.

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"Russian visitors show incredible enthusiasm for our offices. We watched 20 percent - 25 percent expansion [in 2019] in the quantity of Russian guests when contrasted with the earlier year, Ümit Gürbüzoğlu, agent chief of Thermal Hot Springs Enterprise of Turkey's Health Ministry, revealed to Anadolu Agency.

Featuring 3,500 Russian guests were suited in 2019, Gürbüzoğlu said 2,500 guests originate from Middle Eastern nations.

"Underground aquifer the travel industry is well known, particularly throughout the winter," he stated, including that swimming in the outside pool while snowing is a delight.

Expecting to expand the quantity of guests in 2020, he said Russian travel guides who making the most of their excursion in Yalova, have exhorted others to visit.

Russian vacationer Valeriya Dobrotina said she found out about the office through internet based life.

"My companions, who previously visited there, prompted me to visit. I truly preferred the spot. I need to visit there once again," she included.

Kristina Basinskaya, another Russian, said she profits by the warm water.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey reached


The loss of life from an incredible quake in eastern Turkey arrived at 22 on Jan. 25, as rescuers scanned for survivors caught under the rubble of crumbled structures.


The extent 6.8 tremor late on Jan. 24 shook Elazığ region, around 550 km (340 miles) east of the capital Ankara, and was trailed by in excess of 390 delayed repercussions, 14 of which had sizes more than 4.

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Eighteen individuals were slaughtered in Elazığ and four more in the neighboring territory of Malatya, said Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Presidency (AFAD), including 1,103 others were harmed and in medical clinics in the district. It said salvage endeavors were in progress at three distinct destinations in Elazığ.

Turkish telecasters demonstrated film of rescuers hauling individuals out from under the flotsam and jetsam, some around 17 hours after the shake.

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Talking in Elazığ, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said an expected 22 individuals were as yet caught under garbage. AFAD later said 40 individuals had been protected up until this point.

A lady was protected on Jan. 25 from the rubble of a fallen house 17 hours after the tremor.


The live communicate of salvage endeavors indicated that a female salvage laborer was talking via telephone with the caught lady, distinguished as Azize, in an offer to quiet her during the salvage activity.

Salvage groups worked during that time with their hands, drills and mechanical diggers to expel blocks and mortar from crumbled structures in Elazığ, where the medium-term temperature plunged to - 8 degrees Celsius.

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AFAD cautioned occupants not to come back to harmed structures on account of the risk of further post-quake tremors. It said beds, covers, and tents were being sent to the zone, where a few people protected in sports gyms. Turkey's Red Crescent (Kızılay) additionally sent nourishment, radiators and different materials to the district.

"I wish God's benevolence to our siblings who lost their lives in the tremor, and earnest recuperating for the individuals who were harmed," Erdoğan said on Twitter on Jan. 24.

Condition and Urbanization Minister Murat Kurum, who talked nearby Soylu on Jan. 25, said five structures in Elazığ had fell in the shake and there were a few vigorously harmed structures.

Turkey has a background marked by incredible quakes. In excess of 17,000 individuals were murdered in August 1999 when a 7.6 size shake struck the western city of Izmit, 90 km (55 miles) southeast of Istanbul. Around 500,000 individuals were made destitute.

Key realities about the fatal quake:


The shake: A greatness 6.8 seismic tremor struck at 8.55 p.m. neighborhood time on Jan. at a profundity of 6.75 kilometers (around 4 miles).

Where: The focal point was Sivrice region of eastern Elazığ region.

Passings and wounds: 22 individuals have been affirmed dead and in excess of 1,100 harmed.

Salvage endeavors: Some 40 individuals have been protected at this point endeavors are in progress.

Delayed repercussions: Authorities said somewhere in the range of 228 consequential convulsions were felt.

Turkey deliveryman dangers 18 years in prison for spitting on pizza


A Turkish examiner has required a sentence of as long as 18 years for a deliveryman who was found spitting on a client's pizza before giving it over to the client in the Central Anatolian territory of Eskişehir.


The case was opened after a high rise proprietor viewing the surveillance camera film saw the occurrence on Dec. 24, 2017. The proprietor alarmed the client, who was an inhabitant of a similar structure.

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The recording indicated the deliveryman, recognized as Burak S., spitting on the pizza and recording the minute on his cell phone.

The respondent has just been fined 4,000 Turkish Liras ($675) for imperiling a client's wellbeing. Investigators are presently looking for jail sentences from two years to 15 years for "imperiling life by harming nourishment," and from four months to three years for property harm.

The meeting was shut after the respondent's attorneys requested additional opportunity to set up a supplication.

Ottoman newspapers on the walls of Dolmabahçe palace


Paper parts from 1917 were found inside the divider mortar during a rebuilding work at the Dolmabahçe Palace's Süfera Salonu (the Ambassador's Hall) in Istanbul on Jan. 23.

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The papers were utilized as filling materials during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed Reşad in 1909-1918.

The neat pieces of the paper pages recount anecdotes about the Ottoman Empire's initial two planes, and that the last made a trip from Beirut to Damascus securely.

While the printing date of the Ottoman paper is evaluated to match with the mid 1910s, a French day by day part peruses the date 1917.

During the reclamation works in one of the corridors of the royal residence, a sketch of a male representation was likewise found behind the layers of paint on the divider.

The representation, which seems to have been drawn with oil paints, is believed to be a keepsake left by the castle etchers.

"The craftsmans who made the adornment work of that period utilized the dividers like a composition palette," said Cem Eriş, the leader of the reclamation branch of the National Palaces.

Dividers like a canvas palette


As indicated by the subtleties identified with the reclamation at the hour of Sultan Mehmed Reşad, it is comprehended that the male representation, which was found under the layers of paint on the divider in the rooms 30 and 32, was drawn with oil paint, and the sketch-formed picture is thought to have been made by the castle calligraphers.

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Moreover, it was uncovered that the paper pieces were utilized as filling materials. It is written in the paper pieces, containing Ottoman and French news, that the "Footstool" and "Ruler Celaleddin" planes, the primary planes of the Ottoman Empire, effectively completed 40-minute flights.

"Our reclamation works have been proceeding at the Dolmabahçe Palace Süfera Hall for over a year. Before we began the rebuilding work in the room where the diplomats were gotten, we made examinations. Similar works are going on along these lines in room 32. During the reclamation and protection process, we experienced intriguing things. An image of a male figure showed up under the paint layers. The craftsmans, who made the embellishment works, of that period utilized the divider like an artistic creation palette. There are other various drawings, tree pictures and scrawls. One of the calligraphers made a trial by drawing a human figure. He left us such a shock under the paint layer, when we arrived, our companions halted the work," he said.

Eriş said that they took the human figures under security.


"The National Palaces Administrative Directorate has a Science Evaluation Board. They will settle on a choice when we present the figure we found to the board. We will choose how it will be secured and how our functions will keep, as indicated by the choice of the board. Here we see the Ottoman male picture with a facial hair, mustache and turban, which obviously makes an alternate intrigue," he included.

Expressing that the filling material comprised of the cases of electrical materials utilized around then, Eriş stated, "In the paper sections, we saw news about Siyer-I Nebi and the accomplishment of the initial 40-minute excursion of Ottoman and Prince Celalettin planes from Beirut to Damascus. This is an occasion that occurred during the 1910s or soon after. In French writings, there is the ad of a performance center play, which is from 1917. These are the papers left from the work completed somewhere in the range of 1910 and 1917. We will probably open the spot to guests this year."

After a two-year hiatus ended Wikipedia ban in Turkey

Turkey reestablished access to online reference book Wikipedia after the official production on Jan.

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15 of a Constitutional Court deciding that the over two-year square was an infringement of opportunity of articulation.

Turkish specialists had hindered the online reference book on April 29, 2017, after which its parent association, the Wikimedia Foundation, documented a body of evidence against the boycott with the nation's Constitutional Court.

A lower court in Ankara sent its choice to the Information and Communication Technologies Authority for additional activity.

The Constitutional Court put together its decision with respect to choices by the European Court of Human Rights, European Council and UN about opportunity of web and articulation.

It underlined that Wikipedia had a large number of clients and helped all in their capacity to get to data.

A lower criminal court had obstructed the site in 2017 because of articles and remarks asserting Turkey was lined up with different fear monger gatherings.

The Constitutional Court said that however access to the substance on Wikipedia had been denied, practically all the referenced sources stayed open.

It focused on that because of its open structure, Wikipedia articles could incorporate abstract data and be utilized for harmful plan.

Wikipedia's volunteer editors have changed or evacuated a few articles including data about Turkey after it was hindered in the nation, it further noted.

The decision additionally said that Turkey's courts had not started any examinations or hearings on the authors of the questionable data, for which the site was blocked.

It inferred that managerial and legal specialists had not had the option to exhibit that the limitation on getting to the site was defended.

The court included: "Thus, it was reasoned that the choice to square access to the Wikipedia site didn't consent to the necessities of the equitable social request."

Six individuals from the Constitutional Court had casted a ballot against the choice.

Ottoman conquest of Istanbul to be focal point of Netflix's new Turkish arrangement

The time of the ascent of the Ottoman Empire will be the focal point of the new Netflix arrangement "Rise of Empires: Ottoman."

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The arrangement will concentrate on the time of the triumph of Istanbul and the standard of Ottoman Emperor Mehmet II, who vanquished the city from the Byzantines in 1453.

Rise of Empires: Ottoman | Official Trailer



The show was recorded as a narrative arrangement and the first language of the arrangement will be English.

In the narrative arrangement, comprising of six scenes, Mehmet II sets out on a battle for Constantinople, the Byzantine capital at the time, introducing another period.

Istanbul had been alluded to with many different names from the beginning of time, for example, Byzantion, Constantinople, Konstantiniyye and Dersaadet, yet the city came to be known as Constantinople, or the "city of Constantine" during the Byzantine time frame.

The arrangement was coordinated by Emmy grant winning Turkish chief Emre Şahin.


Surely understood Turkish on-screen characters Tuba Büyüküstün and Cem Yiğit Üzümoğlu share the main jobs of the arrangement.

Noticeable scholastics Celal Şengör and Emrah Safa Gürkan are the content guides of the show.

The narrative arrangement was propelled by Los Angeles-based Turkish creation organization Karga Seven Pictures and STX Entertainment.

The arrangement, which will mix fiction and narrative components, will be discharged on Jan. 24 on Netflix.

Antiquated exercise room to become outdoors historical center in Turkey's Izmir

The 1800-year-old recreation center uncovered in the western area of Izmir during development works will be changed over into an outdoors historical center.

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The remaining parts of the authentic relics were found in 2016 when a firm crushed a 120-year-old business focus in the Konak locale in an offer to supplant it with a more up to date focus. Following the revelation, the development was promptly halted.

The Izmir Directorate of Museums under the Culture and Tourism Ministry at that point played out a rescue unearthing on the site. During the uncovering works, an old harbor shower, a supreme salon, shops and extra rooms from the subsequent century were uncovered.

Upon the fulfillment of unearthings, crafted by the groups were placed into a report, which was then passed on to the Izmir Board of Cultural Protection with the recommendation of ordering the archeological site as first degree.

On Oct. 3, 2018, the board decided that the relics have a perplexing structure, show a period's socio-social life and hence should be viewed as an "exacting protection zone." The board focused on that the site's status will be reevaluated after the groundwater is released.

However, with time, the groundwater combined with the water overflowed the "exacting conservation zone," with the absence of assurance measures to verify the archeological site causing a stir and archeologists calling for prompt activity.

Since the remnants were inclined to physical, substance and natural debasement, requests on changing the archeological site into an outdoors historical center rose.

Following the requests, the Izmir Board of Cultural Protection arranged the exhibition hall's task. Upon evaluation from the Konak Municipality, the undertaking was later affirmed by the social legacy protection board.

"We won the delicate to annihilate the old structure and assemble another one. We had arranged an undertaking for another five-story building. At the point when the antiquated remains became exposed, we ended the development and reexamined our venture," said Yaman Atatuş, the executive of the firm accountable for the exhibition hall's development.

"We acted with dedication to ensure these antiques," he said.

The development is intended to be finished in August.


So as to forestall any floods in the archeological site, a waste framework will be set up and after the reclamation and preservation works are settled, the gallery's foundation will start.

In the mean time, the mosaics at the archeological site will be secured with glasses, to keep any harm from climate conditions.

The historical center will likewise incorporate data boards, perception decks and strolling trails alongside bistros, cafés and a training zone.

Old exercise center to become outside exhibition hall in Turkey's Izmir

As indicated by prehistorian Nezih Başgelen, the harbor shower and exercise center, going back to the Roman period, is selective to Anatolia. Başgelen said that the remains were worked after Izmir was destructed by a significant seismic tremor after 177 A.D.

"Aristides, a popular evangelist, and essayist, convinced Emperor Marcus Aurelius to support Izmir and guaranteed the city would be modified with all its previous magnificence," he said.

"Aristides depicts his adored Smyrna [present-day Izmir] and the city's amazing recreation centers, commercial centers, theaters, sanctuary regions, harbors, common and man-made marvels which rival one another," he said.

The classicist additionally stated, refering to Aristides, that there are such a large number of antiquated showers in the region that "one doesn't have the foggiest idea where to lave."

"The arrangement of the remaining parts shows that we are looked with a piece of a momentous shower exercise room complex," he included.

Supernatural Göbeklitepe to be focal point of Netflix's new Turkish arrangement

Göbeklitepe, the world's most seasoned sanctuary in the southeastern area of Şanlıurfa, will be the focal point of the new Netflix arrangement "The Gift" (Atiye), the riddle show's star on-screen character Beren Saat told columnists on Dec. 17.

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"This is a story conceived in this piece of the world, and Göbeklitepe assumes the main job in this account," said Saat, who is most popular for her jobs in arrangement, for example, "Aşk-ı Memnu" and "Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?"

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Her remarks came during a press screening for "The Gift" in Istanbul.

Depicting Göbeklitepe as "a significant disclosure for mankind," the 35-year-old on-screen character stated: "We are restoring this story. The lead job in this story is really Anatolia," she stated, alluding to the Turkish heartland.

Göbeklitepe, proclaimed an official UNESCO World Heritage Site a year ago, was found in 1963 by specialists from the colleges of Istanbul and Chicago.

The German Archeological Institute and Sanliurfa Museum have been doing joint unearthings at the site since 1995. They discovered T-formed monoliths from the Neolithic period transcending three to six meters high and gauging 40-60 tons.

Video spilling organization Netflix's second Turkish unique arrangement will be propelled worldwide on Dec. 27.

The show centers around the account of a craftsman, Atiye, played by Saat who lives in Istanbul. Her life changes after a revelation at the old site of Göbeklitepe.

A book adjustment, the eight-section puzzle show likewise stars Mehmet Gunsur, Başak Köklükaya and Civan Canova.

One of the chiefs of the arrangement, Gönenc Uyanık, said he was pleased as their show centers around "the account of an influential lady."

Netflix's first unique Turkish arrangement, "The Protector," was discharged in December a year ago and stars Çagatay Ulusoy as a youthful businessperson who learns he is associated with a mystery, old request entrusted with securing Istanbul.

In November, the gushing organization declared a third Turkish unique arrangement by Turkish dramatist and on-screen character Berkun Oya. The untitled undertaking will be set in Istanbul.

Turkey has 32 extravagant Indian weddings in 2019, most noteworthy figure ever

Turkey, as the new goal for million-dollar Indian weddings, is said to have just reserved various bookings for one year from now, which could outperform the record-setting year of 2019

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Turkey has facilitated 32 million-dollar Indian weddings over the span of this current year, making 2019 a record year for the quantity of rich Indian weddings held in the nation, as per a wedding industry insider.

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Developing apace with the interest, Turkey's endeavors planned for assuming a bigger job in the Indian wedding industry appear to have paid off as it is step by step increasing a developing portion of the primary market of the world's wedding the travel industry.

Most Indian couples want to get married in the lavish inns in Turkey's hotel towns, especially the Mediterranean retreat city of Antalya, which is getting a charge out of a lift in the travel industry year this year.

Weddings that typically keep going for three days and three evenings with the cooperation of several visitors, huge numbers of whom land at the retreat city on personal jets, make a critical commitment to the city's travel industry, particularly during the low season.

The most recent of these luxurious weddings were hung on Dec. 10-13 in Antalya's Serik area. Somewhere in the range of 200 visitors, who were said to have landed on private planes, went to the luxurious social affair. What's more, culinary experts, decorators, and specialized groups, just as a piece of the gear, were altogether brought from India for the occasion, which was sorted out by Inventum Global, an Indian wedding association firm situated in Antalya.

Demonstrating that lone 15 weddings were held in Turkey before 2019, Bünyat Özpak, one of the fellow benefactors of Inventum Global, disclosed to Ihlas News Agency (İHA) on Saturday that 32 weddings were held in 2019 alone, another record-breaking high.

"We sorted out 25 weddings this year as the organization," he stated, including that together with different organizations, this number is evaluated to have arrived at 32.

Indicating the significance that Indians append to weddings, Özpak noticed that the pay level of Indian families who lean toward Turkey is very high. He noticed that they have just gotten numerous bookings for 2020, also.

"We have an aggregate of 13-14 affirmed and even prepaid weddings for October. On the off chance that it goes on like this, the quantity of occasions only we will complete will be 35-40 weddings," he included.

India, one of the two nations on the planet with a populace of more than 1 billion, positions second in bunch occasions after the U.S. furthermore, first in wedding the travel industry. The costs of these excessive weddings go from $500,000 to a huge number of dollars.

Turkey, which needs a portion of the $50 billion Indian wedding industry, has gained genuine ground over the most recent two years following President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's visit to India and the endeavors of neighborhood the travel industry organizations.

Thailand, found near India, holds the greatest portion of these weddings, trailed by Malaysia and Singapore. Dubai, then again, has expanded its offer quickly as of late.

Be that as it may, the visa application process among India and Turkey is viewed as the greatest hindrance. The travel industry experts stress that more weddings and occasions could be sorted out with the abrogation of the visa and with shared motivating forces per vacationer applied by India and Turkey.

Addressing Turkey's shared visa application with India, Özpak said with the presentation of electronic visas, the quantity of Indian weddings and visitors invited at these occasions may increment.

"It is preposterous to expect to get the numbers we need without the presentation of the electronic visa," he said. "We are presently offering China incredible adaptability. In the event that we offer a similar adaptability to India, the arrival will be quicker and monetarily higher. On the off chance that this occurs, we figure it will be multiple times the figures we are discussing. Roughly 250,000 travelers originated from China in 2019. At the point when we give visa assistance to India, we will arrive at 1 million travelers in a few years and have a ten times increment in the quantity of weddings."

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Özpak underscored that these weddings likewise added to the expansion in per capita vacationer salary.

"As indicated by the figures reported by the Tourism Ministry, we have a normal salary of $600-604 for each individual. The variables that expansion this figure are gatherings and congress gatherings. Their figures go up to $1,100," he noted. "Be that as it may, Indian weddings are normally higher. Some burn through 2,000 to 6,000 euros for each individual. Indian weddings are associations with the most noteworthy per capita spending on the planet. Hence, it has an intense monetary return. They additionally come in the low season. They originate from November to May with very high spending."

Özpak said they facilitated the world's biggest jewel maker in 2019. "We facilitated the greatest on the planet. They had an extraordinary wedding here," he said. "Aside from that, we held the wedding of the girl of the proprietor of a main organization in the gadgets business in India, just as the wedding of probably the most extravagant family in India as far as land. As we bring these families, it gets simpler for us to bring others. With their reference, it gets simpler to persuade the individuals who don't completely get Turkey."

Arsenal distances itself from midfielder Mesut Özil's remarks on China, Uighurs

English football club Arsenal took a stab at Dec. 14 to separate itself from the remarks of its star midfielder Mesut Özil after he posted messages on Twitter and Instagram reproachful of China's strategies toward its Muslim Uighur minority.

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"The substance he communicated is completely Özil's sincere belief," the official record of Arsenal Football Club said in a post on China's Twitter-like Weibo stage.

"As a football club, Arsenal consistently holds fast to the standard of not being associated with governmental issues."

The club's Twitter account didn't have a post tending to Özil's remarks as of Dec. 15.

Özil's posts called Uighurs "warriors who oppose abuse" and scrutinized both China's crackdown and the quiet of Muslims accordingly.

"(In China) Qurans are scorched, mosques were shut down, Islamic philosophical schools, madrasas were restricted, strict researchers were slaughtered individually.

Regardless of this, Muslims remain calm," Özil, who is a Muslim, said in his posts.


Answers to Arsenal's Weibo post were furious, with one demonstrating a destroyed Özil football shirt alongside a couple of scissors and others requesting he be ousted from the club.

A quest on Weibo for the hashtag translatable as "Özil issues improper articulation", which had been one of the top drifting subjects on the stage, restored no outcomes on Dec. 14 evening.

Weibo every now and again blue pencils talk of delicate themes, especially in the midst of a push by Beijing to tidy up its web.

The Chinese Football Association told government-upheld news outlet, The Paper, on Dec. 14 it was "offended and disillusioned" by Özil's comments, portraying them as "wrong".

"Özil's remarks are undoubtfully frightful to the Chinese fans who intently tail him, and simultaneously his remarks likewise hurt the sentiments of Chinese individuals. This is something we can't acknowledge," the news outlet cited an anonymous authority from the relationship as saying.

The United Nations and human rights bunches gauge that between 1 million and 2 million individuals, for the most part ethnic Uighur Muslims, have been confined in brutal conditions in Xinjiang as a feature of what Beijing calls an enemy of psychological warfare battle.

China has over and again prevented any abuse from securing Uighurs.

Submerged excellence of Rumkale to open to guests

The Roman-period ruins situated on the edges of the recorded Rumkale, called the pearl of the River Euphrates, which facilitated numerous developments ever, will open to guests with a submerged undertaking.

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Rumkale, which is home to Urartu, Babylon, Sumerian, Seljuk and Ottoman human advancements in Yavuzeli area of the southeastern territory of Gaziantep, is situated in the locale where Merzimen Stream joins the Euphrates River in a characteristic miracle encompassed by emerald green lakes on three sides and steep, soak rough slopes encompassing it.

Gaziantep Rumkale 4K Aerial Video Shot


The mansion and its environment draw in the consideration of nearby and outside sightseers with its characteristic delights along the Euphrates in spring, just as the chronicled structures it has.

Rumkale, which is likewise viewed as sacred by Christians, is said to have been occupied during the Roman time frame by one of the missionaries of the prophet Jesus and the Bible was replicated in a room cut from the stone.

The Culture and Tourism Ministry recorded Rumkale as one of Turkey's 13 most stupendous manors and works are proceeding to add the stronghold to Turkish the travel industry.

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The Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality has recently made finishing around Rumkale and is currently getting ready to open the Roman-time ruins found submerged at the foot of the château.

Addressing the state-run Anadolu Agency, Gaziantep Metropolitan Mayor Fatma Şahin focused on the significance of Rumkale for local the travel industry.

Expressing that they utilized each chance to remember the mansion for the travel industry, Şahin stated, "There is a château in Rumkale as old as humankind and there is a real existence there.

The hotels, showers and houses worked during the republic time frame have been reestablished. At that point we made a sea shore game plan there.

We sorted out the Rumkale Water Sports Competition to advance this spot and it was extremely effective."

Şahin said that they would understand all ventures to uncover the magnificence of Rumkale and the Euphrates sooner rather than later.

"Our present objective is to do two activities that will empower individuals to watch the Euphrates and Rumkale from the top. One is a link vehicle, the other is a glass see patio.

The view porch venture is going to be finished. I trust we will finish our undertaking rapidly one year from now. At the point when individuals arrive, they will see the one of a kind delight of the Euphrates while tasting the acclaimed Menengiç espresso."

Şahin said that there was a major social fortune underground Rumkale also.


"Under Rumkale there is an incredible Roman-period history. Our national jumper Şahika Ercümen and Derya Can plunged there. They stated, 'There is an awesome history and a superb wonder there.

We have to present it more.' We are thinking about a task called the Underwater Archeology Institute. It will bring us submerged through glass.

We do our examinations with the related units. We took the photographs of spots there with unique cameras submerged and a presentation was sorted out about it.

There's a great deal of work to do submerged. We will show such a shrouded heaven, the incredible fortune to the entire world," Şahin said.

Çanakkale Troya Museum is nominated for European Museum of the Year Award

A historical center in the old city of Troy - presently in present-day Turkey - was shortlisted for the European Museum of the Year Award, the Turkish culture and the travel industry serve said on Dec. 6.

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Opened in 2018 in the western Turkish region of Çanakkale, the Museum of Troy was shortlisted for the honor sorted out by the European Museum Forum, bolstered by the Council of Europe, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said in an announcement.

Canakkale Troya Museum promotional film


"One of the most significant contemporary archeological historical centers on the planet, our Museum of Troy was shortlisted at the European Museum of the Year Award in 2020," Ersoy said on Twitter, sharing a photograph of the exhibition hall.

"I salute each one of the individuals who added to the exhibition hall which was named among numerous galleries," Ersoy included, additionally expressing gratitude toward Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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Champ to be declared on May 2020

The champ of the European Museum of the Year Award will be declared at a service toward the finish of the yearly meeting of the European Museum Forum, which will be held in Cardiff, Wales, from April 29 to May 2, 2020.

Last March, Turkish President Erdoğan formally opened the exhibition hall, which was built as a component of a task that passed a challenge sorted out by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2013.

Among the other 61 shortlisted up-and-comers are the National Museum of Scotland, Athletic Bilbao Museum in Spain, Museum of Warsaw in Poland and the Anne Frank House in the Netherlands.

The European Museum Forum said on its site that the honor will be given to an exhibition hall that "contributes most legitimately to drawing in spectators and fulfilling its guests with an exceptional climate, creative understanding and introduction".

In 1997, the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in the Turkish capital Ankara won the European Museum of the Year Award.

The Museum of Troy is situated alongside the Troy archeological site, one of the most popular old destinations on the planet, with 4,000 years of history.

Troy was deified by the antiquated Greek writer Homer in his epic The Iliad, recounting to the tale of the most recent year of the decade-long Trojan War.

Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen wins the best airport award

Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport has gotten the CAPA-Center for Aviation's Large Airport of the Year grant.

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Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport has set up itself as a pioneer and done the most to propel the advancement of the flight business, CAPA said.

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"The air terminal was chosen for continuing traveler traffic, following a time of exceptionally high development, even with the opening of a pristine, limit unconstrained air terminal over the city," it included.

This prize is granted to air terminals with more than 30 million yearly travelers.


Sabiha Göçken is Turkey's second and Europe's twelfth busiest air terminal, dealing with more than 35 million travelers for every annum.

"We are profoundly regarded to get this honor from CAPA. It's an acknowledgment of our striking development story," said Ersel Göral, CEO of Sabiha Gökçen International Airport.

"The importance of this honor additionally agrees with the tenth year since the opening of [Sabiha Göçken] SAW's new terminal, where traffic has developed in excess of multiple times, serving more than 200 million travelers from that point forward," he included.

In the mean time, the air terminal power (DHMİ) gave an account of Dec. 6 that Turkey's air terminals served an aggregate of 195.4 million voyagers in January-November this year, a 0.8 percent decrease on a yearly premise.

Universal traveler number expanded by 11.4 percent in the initial 11 months to 102.5 million, while local traveler declined 11.5 percent from a year back to 92.8 million.

Istanbul Airport facilitated an all out 47.3 million travelers, as indicated by information.

Istanbul Airport, whose first stage authoritatively opened in October 2018, took over air traffic from the previous fundamental Atatürk Airport on April 6.

DHMİ additionally announced that the nation's air terminals served around 1.9 million flying machine, including overflights, a slight 0.5 percent expansion on a yearly premise.

73-year-old British explorer lands in Istanbul

A British explorer and creator crossed Istanbul's famous Galata Bridge on Dec. 5 on her 6,000-mile venture from the U.K. to Nepal to fund-raise for penniless individuals in the South Asian nation.

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Rosie Swale Pope, 73, is running solo to help U.K.- based philanthropy PHASE Worldwide, which engages separated networks in Nepal, pulling all that she claims in a red truck behind her.

"I am respected to be in Turkey and have the affection for the Turkish individuals," Pope disclosed to Anadolu Agency during her stop in the city.

"I am ready to do this since I am very youthful," she said in a happy tone. "I am just 73 years of age, however I need to do it while I can."

Sharing a video of her running on the Galata Bridge, which traverses the Golden Horn, an old harbor in the city, she tweeted: "Is it a winged animal? Is it a plane? No! It's me stumbling into Galata Bridge on a 6,000-mile venture over the world from the UK to Nepal, pulling all that I possess in a truck behind me."

The swashbuckler, who is likewise the writer of the book Just A Little Run Around the World: 5 Years, 3 Packs of Wolves and 53 Pairs of Shoes, expressed gratitude toward those joining her on the scaffold.

"It was so great to be met by such a significant number of companions. Your generosity isn't lost on me. I will convey it with me as I proceed with my rush to Kathmandu, Nepal."

"Such a wonderful day. I am appreciative to the point that I can take my home with me to such great spots. #RosieRuns (PW)," she additionally composed on Twitter, sharing a picture of the city's Sultanahmet locale.

"In the same way as other individuals, on the off chance that you are accomplishing something that you put stock in with your entire being, you can do it," she said in the meeting: "And I need to do it while I am alive."

"The thought is that each individual on the planet merits the opportunity to cause the best of the existence they to have, anyway hard it is."

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Backing by Turks


Despite the fact that Pope here and there remains at lodgings, she said she went through the previous evening in a field in her red truck, which she pulls utilizing a unique tackle while running.

She commended Turkey as she had increased more than 2,000 Twitter devotees from the nation since intersection the outskirt from Greece while strolling in November.

"I as of now have in excess of 2,000 new Twitter devotees who are Turkish, so I state Tesekkür ederim [thanks in Turkish]. You are super, Masaallah."

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The swashbuckler intends to visit her old neighborhood for seven days after her short stop in Istanbul.


"At that point I'm hurrying to Ankara, Georgia, Azerbaijan," she said.

For an incredible duration, Pope has been engaged with various long distance races in "a portion of the world's most testing landscapes and has set out upon numerous experiences including trekking crosswise over Chile on horseback and cruising over the globe in a little pontoon," agreeing PHASE Worldwide's site. "For a long time, I have been a benefactor of this [PHASE Worldwide] philanthropy, since it was the point at which my significant other would go to Nepal, and afterward he unfortunately kicked the bucket from a long haul disease," she included.

Some Turkish coffee, associated with 40 years!

Turkish espresso, one of the vital components of Turkish culture, was acknowledged by UNESCO as a social legacy and Dec. 5 was assigned as "World Turkish Coffee Day.


An examination led by Kahve Dünyası, a Turkish espresso organization and café chain, has a Turkish espresso guide of the nation inside the extent of World Turkish Coffee Day exercises.

Turkish Coffee, the first gourmet coffee of the world


As per the examination led by meeting 1,615 individuals all through the nation, the most favored espresso kind of the members was Turkish espresso with 77 percent, while 95 out of each 100 individuals says they like Turkish espresso.

As per the examination, Turkish espresso is favored with a medium measure of sugar, called "orta" in Turkish, with a level of 55 percent.

The most well known flavor with Turkish espresso is chocolate with 42 percent endorsement.

Also, 73 out of each 100 individuals lean toward Turkish espresso "frothy."

Turkish espresso is a way to express cordiality in the Mediterranean and Black Sea districts and to assemble with companions in the Aegean area, as indicated by the exploration.

Turkish espresso, which is favored after dinners for the duration of the day, is generally smashed at night.

Moreover, 60 out of each 100 members who drink Turkish espresso state that they like the flavor of Turkish espresso.

Around 80 percent of the individuals who appreciate the kind of Turkish espresso are individuals in the Marmara locale, while the members in the Central Anatolia Region says they drink Turkish espresso to have a break.

Somewhere in the range of 58 out of each 100 wedded ladies state that they made salted espresso for their man of the hour up-and-comers, while 47 percent of wedded men drink salted espresso during the function.

As indicated by conventional family social occasions before marriage in Turkey, the lady of the hour is required to serve Turkish espresso to her visitors. In any case, it's as simple as that.

For the lucky man's espresso, the lady to-be may utilize salt rather than sugar as a type of character check. On the off chance that the man drinks his espresso without grievance, he is said to be patient and great tempered.

Exhibition halls offer memory of Turkey's Black Sea area

The exhibition halls operating at a profit Sea area, bring the past to people in the future.

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There are in excess of 20 exhibition halls in the upper east areas of Artvin, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Ordu, Rize, Trabzon and Samsun.

Exhibition halls that shed light on the way of life, history, nearby design, convictions and nourishment culture in the area can be visited consistently.

Inside the extent of the Black Sea Culture Inventory Project, did by the Eastern Black Sea Project Regional Development Administration (DOKAP), every one of the exhibition halls have been added to the social stock.

Data on the area, history and substance of every one of the exhibition halls and visuals are accessible on the site at "karadeniz.gov.tr."

Among the historical centers, Baksı in Bayburt, Hagia Sophia Museum in Trabzon and Bandırma Ferry in Samsun stand out for their substance.

DOKAP Chairman Yusuf Mengi said that they concentrated on historical centers under a particular feature in the task.

"Presently, museology is perceived as a science. We have advanced the present condition of both the cutting edge and traditional exhibition halls in the area regarding society. We needed to have a base for the new exhibition halls to be built up," he said.

Yusuf Mengi included that all individuals could arrive at data about the galleries on the site.

Among these historical centers, the Baksı Museum, situated in Bayraktar town, 45 kilometers from Bayburt, was established by Professor Hüsamettin Koçan in 2010. The historical center presents contemporary craftsmanship and customary specialties under a similar rooftop. The gallery is built up on 40,000 square meters with display corridors, distribution center, workshops, gathering lobby, library and visitor house.

The Baksı Museum, in contrast to different galleries, has a character that consolidates conventional and contemporary perspectives on a similar ground and makes monetary focuses with its creation units.

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The name Baksı originates from the old name of Bayraktar town.

Trabzon's Hagia Sophia Museum is both a gallery and a mosque. Worked somewhere in the range of 1240 and 1260, the previous church was changed over into a mosque after the success of Trabzon by Fatih Sultan Mehmet and utilized as a stockroom and military medical clinic during the war years. The structure was remodeled between 1958 and1962 and opened to guests since 1964.

Trabzon additionally has the Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Ottoman Culture House and the Trabzon History Museum just as the Trabzon Museum, Trabzon City Museum and Atatürk House Museum.

The Bandırma Ferry Museum, which took Atatürk and his companions to Samsun on May 19, 1919, is in the National Struggle Park Open Air Museum.

The exhibition hall presents wax statues, a mariner clock from the 1870s, a classical phone, a guide, estimating materials, a fire tube, old fashioned tables and seats. Different territories in the gallery are Atatürk's room, the commander's hotel and the chief's lodge. The presentation segment likewise shows the ship's unique drawings.

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The Alaçam Exchange Museum in Samsun additionally stands apart as a topical gallery of ethnographic antiquities.

In the Gazi Museum, there are photos portraying the provoking stage from May 19 to the announcement of the republic, the weapons and garments utilized by Atatürk and the things that Atatürk utilized when he previously landed in Samsun.

The Dikyamaç Village Lifestyle Museum in Artvin opened in 2012 and grandstands town life around the city. The gallery displays customary painstaking work and conventional instruments and materials utilized by neighborhood individuals in their day by day lives.

Tepeköy Traditional Life Culture Museum and Hopa Culture House and Museum, which is the principal gallery of Şavşat district in Artvin, likewise show Artvin's way of life and history.

The Giresun Museum, which filled in as a congregation and jail previously, has been a historical center for a long time, including antiques from the Hittites to Phrygians and the Ottomans.

Gümüşhane's Ikizevler City Museum, Ordu Paşağlu House and Ethnography Museum, Rize Museum, Atatürk House and Museum and Ishakoğlu Natural Life Museum are among the other social attractions in the area.

Ballet dancer, another lady, killed in Turkey

A 20-year-old college understudy and ballet dancer, Ceren Özdemir, was wounded to death on her way back home from an expressive dance class on Dec. 3 in the Altınordu region of the Black Sea area of Ordu.

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Ceren Özdemir was gone to by paramedics after the homicide, while the aggressor fled the scene.

Özdemir was taken to Ordu University Training and Research Hospital yet kicked the bucket after medical procedure.

Police propelled an examination concerning the homicide and gathered surveillance camera film from encompassing working environments.

Police are attempting to recognize the assailant, as indicated by nearby reports.

Ordu University Rector Ali Akdoğan created an impression to writers in the wake of communicating his sympathies to Özdemir's family.

"She left her school and halted on her way home. At the point when she got back home, she rang the chime and her sister tossed the keys out of the window. At the point when her sister saw she was late [did not open the door], she went down just to see Ceren lying in blood," Akdoğan told nearby journalists.

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"At the point when I went to the window to toss the keys out, I saw that there was an individual in his 40s wearing dark before the structure," Özdemir's sister supposedly told the police.

The police verified that a deliveryman, distinguished uniquely by the initials M.D. what's more, who brought remove nourishment to the place of the two sisters, asked Özdemir out some time prior, and that he had begun to upset Özdemir when she dismissed him.

M.D. was kept at 12 PM.

Following the cross examination, be that as it may, the deliveryman was discharged after police discovered he had no association with the homicide.

In the interim, another suspect have been recognized bu the cops and was kept in a house he was stowing away.

The suspect, supposedly a medication someone who is addicted, cut a cop harshly and was taken to the police base camp for cross examination under broad safety efforts.

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The cop, who was genuinely harmed because of the assault, was taken to emergency clinic.

The homicide turned into the most recent in a string of comparative femicides to start across the nation shock on Turkey's internet based life.

As indicated by figures gave by Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu (We Will Stop Femicides Platform), which keeps a count of femicides the nation over, somewhere in the range of 390 ladies were murdered by men in Turkey in 2019.

In its most recent count, the stage recorded 39 ladies killed in the long stretch of November.

Women's activist gatherings have since quite a while ago encouraged specialists to make genuine move to keep more ladies from passing on. The pace of femicides are disturbing in a nation previously tormented by murders of ladies on account of oppressive exes, accomplices or male family members.