Category: Opinion
I recently received the following question: “I am getting married to a Turk soon. I am a foreign citizen and a resident of Turkey. I have been told that I needed to get my birth certificate translated into Turkish, which I have done. I have also been told that the Turkish authorities might need other [...]
Pressure had been building on a number of fronts, but the issue which finally destroyed her was the yet-to-be-born euro. In the last weekend of October 1990, she travelled to a European summit in Rome, where Jacques Delors’ dream of European Monetary Union was high on the agenda. But while Mrs. Thatcher was fighting her [...]
The Turkish Mining Law was changed a while ago following many decades of unchanged practice, which allowed people to conduct mining operations without almost any regard for the environment. Today, I will give some information about Turkey’s current mining legislation, which is investor-friendly and is also more advanced in means of protecting the environment. The [...]
There are two types of employment contracts under Turkish labor law: contracts with definite terms and contracts with indefinite terms. The law defines an indefinite term employment contract as follows: “In the event the term of the contract is not defined by the parties at the time of concluding the contract, then the employment contract is [...]
THOMAS Cook saw its share price plummet yesterday after it issued a profit warning triggered by unrest in the Middle East and North Africa and belt-tightening in the UK. Europe’s second biggest travel firm said full-year profits will be £60m lower than previously expected – triggering a share price drop of almost a third. The company [...]
After some California weather we are now back to constant hot and humid ?stanbul days. First email; “Dear Berk Çektir, I live in the United Kingdom. I would very much appreciate it if you could answer a simple query I have regarding co-ownership of a property. I own 50 percent of a property and someone else [...]
The Turkish Ministry of Education has enacted a real revolution after 75 years of ignorance and has decided to teach proper spoken English. This is from the May 15 issue of Today’s Zaman: “The Ministry of Education recently decided that it would import 40,000 native English-speaking teachers to work with teachers in English language classes [...]
Regarding to columnist reports they have been receiving so many e-mails regarding property scams. Scammers walk around freely with the money they stole from property investors. Is there a way to put these people in jail? Is there a way to recuperate losses? Just a couple of days ago I quoted an e-mail about a [...]
Turkey’s rapidly expanding tourism industry has been well documented as the nation has climbed tourism rankings to become one of the world’s leading holiday destinations. New data has found that this industry growth has been heavily influenced by British tourists, with more visitors travelling there every year. Turkey played host to over 28.6 million visitors [...]
Diageo’s deal for Mey Içki is set to mark a turnaround for the drinks giant’s fortunes in Turkey’s promising spirits market. Investors gave Diageo’s US$2.1bn deal for Mey Içki a lukewarm response today (21 February), with the company’s share price broadly flat. But, in buying Turkey’s leading spirits producer, Diageo has paid a reasonable price – [...]
You always need to know that travelling winter in Turkey is cheaper, has less crowds in holiday resorts specially in Kusadasi mainly because most of places shoots time to time, and is relaxing. But you need to know can be cold because not much places has central heating system and its not very popular so [...]
Why you need holiday insurance, read on for better holidays in Turkey because in today’s competitive world, people strive and work tirelessly daily in order to achieve a good position in their lives and improve their total well being. But throughout their search for money, they forget to wind down and have fun. This creates [...]
THE EGYPTIAN vice-president, Omar Suleiman, met representatives of opposition groups yesterday and agreed to some of the secondary demands of the thousands who gathered at Tahrir Square for a 13th day of protests against the 30-year reign of president Hosni Mubarak. Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama said last night that he believed Egypt is “not [...]
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been crowned as Time magazine’s person of 2010. Zuckerberg, who gained additional notoriety this year by being the main character of the film The Social Network now also has the honour of being Time magazine’s annual Person of the Year, the person the leading US magazine believes had the most [...]
Kusadasi Turkey – Changes in legal regulations may sometimes confuse administrative authorities in terms of interpretation and application. I recently received an e-mail concerning whether or not a residence permit is required for property purchases by foreigners in Turkey. Dear Berk, there has been quite a stir in Kalkan after a UK buyer was refused [...]
A Turkish proverb says, “Once you have property, you have a problem.” This proverb gently addresses the problems of the modern world and demonstrates the difficulties of having things. On the other hand, almost nobody can stop herself/himself from having things. I also find Tracy Chapman’s song mentioning “Mountains O’ Things” very meaningful. A dear [...]
HIV acquired in the UK doubled
A doubling of new HIV infections in the UK in the past decade is leading experts to tell GPs to offer testing to all adult male patients in some areas,” reported BBC News. The news report is based on the latest data, which showed that new diagnoses of HIV acquired in the UK have nearly doubled [...]
The healthiest way to lose weight
After reading many topics and articles regarding loosing weight we have decided to let you know best and health options to loose weight with out doing anything or exercise because of life style sometimes can be hard to exercise but if you are in Kusadasi or Ladies Beach don’t forget amazing golden sand beach perfect [...]
I recently received the following question: “I am getting married to a Turk soon. I am a foreign citizen and a resident of Turkey. I have been told that I needed to get my birth certificate translated into Turkish, which I have done. I have also been told that the Turkish authorities might need other [...]
British business down the river
Pressure had been building on a number of fronts, but the issue which finally destroyed her was the yet-to-be-born euro. In the last weekend of October 1990, she travelled to a European summit in Rome, where Jacques Delors’ dream of European Monetary Union was high on the agenda. But while Mrs. Thatcher was fighting her [...]