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...Just behind Galataport stands another less visited mosque, Kılıç Ali Pasha — designed by Mimar Sinan, the great 16th-century Ottoman architect of the city’s most beautiful places of worship (not to mention...
...Before A Book of Middle Eastern Food came out in 1968, there had been no cookbooks at all about this cuisine, no recipes in magazines or newspapers....
...Bits in the north are held by rebels under Turkish patronage, while US-backed opposition fighters roam the south....
...It aims to challenge Mondelez, the US owner of Oreos biscuits and Cadburys chocolate, by bringing together Ulker, its Turkish brand, with a number of Yildiz’s recent acquisitions: Godiva chocolates; United...
...Officials at the plant have been unable to find someone willing to replace Mr Ali. But the deal goes on....
...“They all say ‘London’ because of the Turkish population over there, and the cultural harmonisation.”...
...a speech to ruling party MPs, Mr Erdogan maintained his fiercely combative stance towards the international media by suggesting that a CNN correspondent, who was recently detained and manhandled by the Turkish...
...of publicly listed Turkish companies to $221bn over the past two weeks....
...From four destinations in 2003, the carrier has expanded to 34 today, including 15 last year, says Ali Genc, a company representative....
...Good news for the Erdogan and Turkish policy makers. Ali Babacan, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, was keen to stress the lack of outflows on Wednesday. But a couple of caveats are worth noting....
...In the past, Turkish groups had no incentive to go abroad because “it was so easy to make money” in their protected domestic market, explains Mehmet Ali Babaoglu....
...Turkish Airlines has started flying in five times a week....
...The group, headed by Ali Sabanci, a disaffected scion of the Sabanci family, one of the most prominent in Turkish business, is now planning to expand its network to take advantage of Turkey’s location close...
...Pegasus chairman Ali Sabanci is hardly a beginner....
...Just like Ali Baba, who foiled the 40 thieves and gained access to a magical cave of treasures, there are no indications to date that Alibaba’s easy access to the Chinese internet market and the online world...
...With its multi-ethnic blend of cultures: Turkish, Arab, Persian, Greek – even Uygur – and roots in imperial Ottoman cuisine, the concept of generic Turkish food is difficult, says long-time Istanbul resident...
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...Pegasus, previously a small charter operator, was established in its current form in 2005 by Ali Sabanci, chairman, a year after he left Sabanci Holding, the family-controlled Turkish conglomerate....
...Ali Sabanci immediately set to work on Pegasus, planning to take advantage of a 2003 government decision to liberalise domestic air travel and end the near-monopoly of Turkish Airlines....
...Ataturk’s reforms, more than anything the AKP has done, help explain why the Turkish economy is among the most dynamic in the Muslim world....
...of Idlib province, next to the Turkish border....
...Ali Babacan, Turkey’s deputy prime minister for the economy, often criticises European governments for lacking strong economic management “like we have in Turkey”....
...“This is a working example that has positive results,” Ali Babacan, the deputy prime minister who serves as Turkey’s economic supremo, recently proclaimed....
...The state retains a 49 per cent stake in Turkish Airlines (THY), worth around 2.58bn lira ($1.62bn) at Friday’s closing share price of 5.26 lira....
...Yet for every hope of transition to Turkish or Indonesian-style democracy, there are also predictions of instability and a return to dictatorship....
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