All Sultan Kosen wants is a woman to look up to – but finding love is a tall order when you are 8ft 1in. The 27-year-old farmer from Turkey said he’s never had a girlfriend. But he hopes his luck will change after being named the world’s tallest man by the Guinness Book of Records [...]
A mother-of-three has told how she lost her dream home and nest egg after being caught up in a Turkish property fraud nightmare. Margaret Macdonald, from Whitehead, Co Antrim, flew out to Altinkum on Turkey’s Aegean coast as news broke that her three-bedroom apartment, along with 10 others owned by Britons and Europeans on the [...]
This is the first in a series of articles released by Spot Blue, that we hope will become valuable resources for anyone considering either a property purchase or a holiday in the country. Flights to Turkey Turkey is becoming more accessible almost by the week. Just this month UK budget airline EasyJet announced new cheap [...]
Britons who travel abroad are often labelled as badly behaved and the reputation of travelling Brits was dealt another blow this week when a teenager from Cumbria exposed himself on a drunken night out. Thomas Strong, 19, not only decided to pull his shorts down in the popular holiday resort of Marmaris but he went [...]
BBC – Ten people have been arrested during a demonstration outside a mosque in north-west London where an anti-Islamic protest was planned. At least 1,000 people gathered outside Harrow Central Mosque as activists from Stop Islamification of Europe planned to demonstrate outside the mosque. Unite Against Fascism were also present to “defend the mosque”, they [...]
Police say a body has been found in Turkey where a Fylde coast grandfather went missing last month. Lancashire Police have confirmed the jandarma the Turkish police – have put out a statement saying a body has been found off the Lycian Way, where 67-year-old John Kirkham was walking when he disappeared on August 10. [...]
A long question from a colleague has been sent again with a note that the matter is now urgent. I am not sure that this is a common topic that will be of interest to Today’s Zaman readers, but this column is not solely designed to be the one with highest readership. The letter reads [...]
Friends of missing Fylde coast grandfather John Kirkham have backed his wife’s suspicions he has been abducted. The experienced walker was a keen member of Wyre Ramblers and members say they find it “very difficult” to believe he is lost. Ramblers treasurer John Adams said: “He is a competent walker. He is a capable map-reader, [...]
While Spain has long been seen as the primary holiday destination for Britons looking for sun and beaches, a recent study indicates that Turkey is now well in the process of overtaking Spanish resorts when it comes to attracting visitors from the United Kingdom. This change, however, has a lot to do with concerns about [...]
Fethiye’s mayor and his deputy were attacked and stabbed Wednesday. Both are stable and have no life-threatening injuries, the hospital’s chief physician said. Mayor Behçet Saatc? of the Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP, and deputy mayor Mehmet Y?lmaz Cesur were attacked in the morning by Halit T., who was later taken into custody. The perpetrator [...]
Legal guidebook for foreigners
Turkish intellectual property law, Sometimes lawyers feel that all those violations experienced by their clients will never touch them. This is certainly not the case. It happens to us, too. Just recently, I was wandering in a bookshop, and I checked the legal books section, and what did I find but a legal guidebook for foreigners [...]
With average property prices in England and Wales currently listed as £233,139*, we look at what you can get for your money in the UK and abroad. This figure has only risen 1.5% over the past year showing a very static domestic market compared with a 16.4% annual price increase seen 3 years ago. London [...]
A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday performed the world’s first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said. At the same time, a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, transplanted the face of the same donor onto another [...]
Flu-Fighting Foods that we need because getting cold nearly all over the world and better to be safe and with out flu around so lets take some actions and stay away from flu because buried in the controversy over whether to get the H1N1 vaccination (or even where to find one), is that one of [...]