Aksaray Province

İşkembe soup: an all-day classic all across İstanbul

Throughout the night, in districts all across Istanbul, the city’s famous işkembe (tripe) soup salons are visited by an endless flow of hungry customers. The race among paçacılar such as İstanbul’s Apik, Pangaaltı and Lale has...

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Forecast Turkey, weather Turkey, meteo Turkey

Weather Turkey, Ankara weather, weather weekend forecast season, the weather in the mountains, the weather on the coast, the weather on the beach, sea water temperature, weather in the capital, the weather in the mountains, the...

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Aksaray’s industrial zone attracts Gulf investments

Aksaray Organized Industrial Zone (OSB) Director İsmet Çağlar has revealed that a Kuwaiti subsidiary has invested in the zone to build a cement mixer factory. Çağlar said Symex International Holding, a subsidiary of the...

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Death toll from pandemic swine flu reaches 15 in Turkey

Fifteen people have died so far in Turkey from H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, according to a written statement released by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday. The 10th death was a suspicious case, but doctors from...

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ALCEN purchase of Meram Electricity approved

The Competition Authority announced on Monday that it has approved the transfer of shares in the state-owned Meram Electricity Distribution Corporation to ALCEN Energy Distribution, a private electricity distribution company.

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African immigrants are everywhere, even at local bazaars

Kimbaki, a Nigerian citizen who came to Turkey three years ago, sells watches at a stand at the Bakırköy bazaar. Kimbaki, who came to İstanbul after fleeing his country because of war, shed some light on the stories of African...

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Increased İstanbul taxi fares in effect starting tomorrow

Taxi fares will be increased and night fares abolished starting tomorrow, according to a decision of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality's Transportation Coordination Center (UKOME). New guidelines foresee starting fares...

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Priceless antique carpets brought back to life at Sultanhan

There are around 1,000 people working to repair priceless antique carpets in nearly 50 workshops in the town of Sultanhan in Aksaray. The exquisite carpets that have been repaired in these ateliers include pieces from not only...

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İstanbul -- the mosques Sinan didn't build

So great is the hold on the imagination of the great Ottoman architect Sinan that it's sometimes easy to run away with the idea that most of İstanbul's great mosques were his handiwork. The easiest way to do this was to adapt...

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Turkish universities churning out more publications

The Higher Education Board (YÖK) has released figures for publications prepared by Turkish universities, revealing that such academic output increased by over 20 percent in 2008 over the previous year.

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