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...“I prayed here with my family . . . I prayed for my own success,” he says....
...Members of the Republican People’s party (CHP) voted early on Sunday to replace Kılıçdaroğlu with Özgür Özel, a veteran lawmaker who vowed to shake up the organisation’s strategy ahead of local elections...
...“I’m expecting them to do everything in their power, beyond anything they have done in the past, because these are extremely high-stake elections,” said Gülçin Özkan, a professor of finance at King’s College...
...Professor Gulcin Ozkan King’s Business School King’s College LondonLondon WC2, UK...
...“I am sorry to say that the sale of alcohol is prohibited through May 17, with the excuses of the pandemic and Ramadan,” Ozgur Aybas, chairman of an off-licence business association, said in a tweet....
...“It pains me when I think that money could have gone to helping people during the pandemic, to saving jobs and buying more vaccines,” said Ozkan, a 23-year-old hardware salesman who declined to give his...
...“I used to feel like the boy who cried wolf working on Turkey — or I did when I first came....
...“I think most prefer [Turkish-backed anti-Assad extremist rebels] over the regime.” Additional reporting by Asmaa al-Omar...
...“I will just say that everything is being done on time, consistent with the agreements and the contracts....
...So I would assume he has a reasonable expectation of getting some cash from somewhere.”...
...“I hope I am wrong on this....
...“One of the things that I’m very clear on is we’re committed to South Africa for the long haul....
...“I’m the first true Iraqi citizen,” says the creature, in this biting satire of Iraqi life and sectarian disputes, winner of the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction....
...“Erdogan has 100 per cent trust in him,” said Ozgur Yasar Guyuldar, head of global emerging markets sales at Austria’s Raiffeisen Centrobank....
...“If there had been a speedy trial, a proper trial, maybe he would have been convicted — I don’t know. But the case would have been closed.”...
...Tayfun Özkan Istanbul, Turkey...
...The motherland that I miss and love dearly, I can no longer recognise. Elif Shafak is a novelist and journalist...
...“Fifteen years ago, with this level of debt, I would have been worried,” Mr Yorgancioglu says....
...“I think the PKK threat will [remain] until there’s a permanent government in Turkey,” he said. “To contain the violence you need a deal, and in an election cycle a deal is not possible.”...
...“And so I believe that it is in the Turkish interest, first of all, to be consistent with this commitment.”...
...“He is nobody’s puppet,” Mr Ozkan says....
...The divide has remained intact since the war, as the diaspora has generally prospered while Bosnians in poor Bosnia haven’t, says Özgür Dirim Özkan, a Turkish anthropologist who studies Bosnian football....
...Yes, it was a conspiracy, he says, adding that, “I sometimes feel people don’t want a strong Turkey.”...
...“I see it as very positive that the bank has taken a simple, strong move, ahead of the curve,” said Ozgur Altug at BGC Partners in Istanbul....
...“This is insane,” says Sema Ozkan, 45, who left school at 16, married, had three sons and is now divorced. “If my parents were not so ignorant, I would have a better life....
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