Erdoğan praises Ertuğrul TV series for reacquainting world with Ottoman history

Tue 21 May 2019: ‘Wherever I go during my travels, everyone wants to discuss Resurrection with me and tell me how everyone in those countries watches [this series],’ Erdoğan told a symposium in Ankara Wildly popular TRT series Resurrection: Ertuğrul is to thank for renewed interest in Ottoman and Turkish history across the globe, President […]

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Turkish soaps, movies make a great hit in US, outshine Hollywood clichés

Mon 13 May 2019: For some American viewers, Turkish soap operas are so addictive that they have pushed Hollywood movies aside. Kristen Korie, a middle-aged woman from Florida, said it has been more than a decade since she switched to Turkish series from Hollywood movies. “I left Hollywood around 2007 and started watching international entertainment […]

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Banana-sucking pop singer jailed for video harmful to egyptian morality

Fri 10 May 2019: An Egyptian court jailed a pop singer for two years for suggestively eating a banana and appearing in her underwear in a recent music video. Shyma’s video for the song ‘I have issues’ caused immediate outrage in the highly socially conservative country. Since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in […]

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Madonna says giving her children mobile phones ‘ended their relationship’

Tue 07 May 2019: The singer says her children’s lives became dominated by the technology It’s a daily bane of modern parenting that even Madonna appears to have got hung up on: how to keep a child’s attention once you give them a mobile phone. Madonna has complained of losing a link to her children after giving […]

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Documentary sheds light on untold story of 400,000 Ottoman migrants to US

Mon 06 May 2019: A documentary directed by Turkish filmmaker Mesut Gengeç explains the story of 400,000 Ottoman citizens who migrated to the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, shedding light on the details of the rarely-spoken migration, which involved dire travel conditions, sickness and even death for some. Gengeç was inspired to make […]

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