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PM Erdogan to begin AKP election campaigning in Turkey’s northwest

Turkey’s prime minister will begin the election campaign tour for his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the northwestern province of Kocaeli on Feb. 7, broadcaster NTV reported on Tuesday.

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’Turkey pushed into international isolation’

ISTANBUL – Another criticism to Prime Minister Erdo?an’s harsh words toward Israel comes from a former ambassador who argues that the government’s pro-Hamas stance pushes Turkey into international isolation and damages the country’s mediation potential

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Gulls (often informally Seagulls) are birds in the family Laridae. They are most closely related to the terns (family Sternidae) and only distantly related to auks, and skimmers, and more distantly to the waders. Until recently, most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but this arrangement is now known to be polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several genera.[1]

They are typically medium to large birds, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls. They have stout, longish bills, and webbed feet. Gull species range in size from the Little Gull, at 120 g (4.2 oz) and 29 cm (11.5 inches), to the Great Black-backed Gull, at 1.75 kg (3.8 lbs) and 76 cm (30 inches).

Seagull Over The Marmara Sea-Istanbul, Turkey

Silk Road

Silk is also maintained the identification of Eastern Culture by Western societies.

Transportation of silk and spice of east via caravans, is formed the commercial roads reaching to Europe from China. In Medieval Age, commercial caravans, had started to their voyages from today's Chinese Xian city, and reach to the Kashgar city of Uzbekistan; they were reaching to Hazar Sea from Afghanistan plains with following the first one of the roads separated into two there; and to Anatolia over Iran with climbing over Karakorum Mountains with other one. They were going to Europe via road over Thrace or via maritime lines from Anatolia.

In this commercial movement improving from east to west, a road network, used since previous ages, had been benefited. These thousands of kilometers long caravan roads, which allow cultural relations between continents besides dense transportation of silk, porcelain, paper, spice and jewelry, are named as "Silk Road" in the course of time.

Silk Road, beyond being a commercial road connecting Asia to Europe, is holding the signs of cultures, religions and races, who lived in the region for 2000 years, and serves an extraordinary history and cultural wealth. After gaining of independence of Middle Asia Turkish Republics, re – animation of silk road both as a commercial road and also a historical and cultural value is considered, and works for protection and existence of structures which are constructed throughout this road but not used today with giving them new functions, is commenced.

Turkey says talks with IMF on new deal suspended "for a short time"

Talks between the International Monetary Fund and Turkey over the new loan deal have been suspended for a short time and will be resumed “at one point”, Economy Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Monday.

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Gran Bazar’s Ceiling

German Fountain, Sultanahmet, Istanbul

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German Fountain : Constructed in Germany to mark German Emperor Wilhelm II’s second visit to Istanbul, it was imported and officially opened on January 1 1901, lying in Sultanahmet Square. The fountain’s three domes are decorated with gold mosaics.

German Fountain, Sultanahmet, Istanbul

Hakkari

 The capital is Hakkari. The province covers an area of 7,121 km² and has a population of 272,566 (2006 est). The province had a population of 236,581 in 2000.

The province was created in 1936 out of part of Van Province. Its adjacent provinces are Şırnak to the west and Van to the north.

In Ottoman times, there were also numerous Assyrian tribes in the province, though fighting during the First World War forced most of them into Persia and Iraq. The Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East was also resident in Hakkari Province until then.