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• Head to a 'one-third club' country and save
After flying high over the past couple years, the Turkish lira has also come down to Earth. That currency is down 38 percent on the year, making museum admissions, local meals, pansiyon hotels, and local transportation much more affordable. Don’t ...
• Duchess accused of smearing Turkey's image
Nov. 21: A published author is due to be sentenced for cutting pages out of rare books from two British libraries and placing them in his home collection. ITV's Angus Walker reports. ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish minister on Monday accused Sarah ...
• Europe has a long wait for its Obama
Minorities in Germany's Bundestag hold 10 of 612 seats, although a politician of Turkish origin, Cem Ozdemir, is about to become the first to take the helm of a political party, co-leading the Green Party. "Obama hasn't happened overnight," said Danny ...
• Turkish ship with iron ore hijacked off Somalia
ANKARA, Turkey - Pirates hijacked a Turkish ship with 20 crew off the coast of Somalia but at least six other ships have fended off pirate attacks in the past two days, officials said Thursday. The M/V Yasa Neslihan freighter was boarded by pirates ...
• Spooky, kooky, unpredictable travel tales
... unnerving story about the pilot sidelined by United Airlines for failing a breathalyzer test just before joining a crew flying from London to San Francisco. Or for the saga of the inebriated passenger who earlier this month tried to hijack a Turkish ...