Pegasus Airlines was named ‘Best Low-Cost Airline’ at this year’s World Tourism Awards. Onur Dedeköylü, the airline’s marketing director, received the award at a ceremony held at Istanbul’s Çırağan Palace. Now in their third year, the awards are part of the World Tourism Forum (WTF), a relatively new international body aiming to boost tourism globally. […]
Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman supped on Turkish tea before appearing in a comfy aircraft armchair atop stunning scenery in a new 45-second advert for Turkish Airlines. The clip, directed by Matthias Zentner, received its debut airing during yesterday’s Super Bowl. The advert appeared in commercial breaks during the match between the New England Patriots and the […]
Theresa May and her Turkish counterpart have announced new trade talks between Britain and Turkey that could generate billions more pounds for their economies. Mrs May is the first major Western leader to visit the Turkish capital following the coup attempt last summer. During her one day visit to Ankara on Saturday 28 Jan, the […]
A musician living in Bodrum claims to be the father of British pop star Adele. Mehmet Asar, 52, told reporters for Doğan Haber Ajans that he had a fling with the superstar’s mother when she was holidaying in Turkey, nine months before the singer was born. According to Mr Asar, he met Penny Adkins in the […]
One of Turkey’s biggest music stars has lent their weight to a campaign to prosecute two young men who chopped off the ears of a young dog in İsparta. Calling into a live TV show, Bülent Ersoy spoke out against the teenage thugs, who posted pictures of themselves on social media posing next to the […]
Rewind to the beginning of 2016. Ankara was at odds with many of the key actors in the Syrian conflict, including Washington and Tehran. And, after shooting down a Russian jet in November 2015, the temperature with Moscow was certainly below zero. Turkey became estranged from Iran and Russia because of its insistence on the […]
A New Year’s Eve party at one of Istanbul’s best-known clubs turned into a blood bath in the early hours of Sunday morning after a gunman opened fire killing 39 and injuring scores more. Reina, located by the First Bosphorus Bridge in Ortaköy, central Istanbul, was packed full of people at the time. The terrorist […]
A room at the Korumar De Luxe Hotel has been named after a British tourist who was their regular visitor for nearly 25 years. Following his first visit in 1990, Charles Courtney stayed at the Kuşadası hotel a total of 52 times, becoming a firm favourite with the staff and fellow tourists in the process. […]
A European survey into the average time mobile phone users spend talking on their phones was topped by Turkey. According to figures from 2016’s third quarter, Turks spend an average of seven hours and 16 minutes (436 minutes) per month chatting, compared to four hours and 17 minutes (257 minutes) for the rest of Europe. […]
A journey across the Bosphorus Strait that used to take over 1.5 hours now takes just 15 minutes. That’s the time needed to drive across Istanbul’s new 5.4 km (3.4 miles) long Eurasia Tunnel, which was formally opened to the public on Thursday 22 Dec. Entrances to the Eurasia Tunnel are in the Göztepe district, […]
