News archive of May 2023

Christie's auction house will next week launch the sale of hundreds of jewels that belonged to Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten, whose German businessman husband made his fortune under the Nazis.

The fur of Costa Rican sloths appears to harbor antibiotic-producing bacteria that scientists hope may hold a solution to the growing problem of "superbugs" resistant to humanity's dwindling arsenal of drugs.

Sloth fur, research has found, hosts bustling communities of insects, algae, fungi and bacteria, among other microbes, some of which could pose disease risk.

Orkut Baysal, one of the athletes of the National Paragliding Team, lost his life as two parachutes collided and fell during the landing in southwestern province of Muğla's Fethiye district.

On April 29, 30-year-old professional paraglider Orkut Baysal jumped from the 1,700-meter runway of Babadağ in Ölüdeniz neighborhood with Andaç Ünsal, whom he was currently training.

Following the deadly quakes that jolted Türkiye's south in early February, an expected Istanbul tremor that experts for long have been warning about has come to the agenda once again, with the number of city's residents who prefer to settle down in Bodrum is on the rise.

A woman from quake-hit Hatay has formed an association called "We are here, Hatay" ("Buradayız Hatay" in Turkish) to encourage their relatives and neighbors to back to their hometown.

As the southern province of Hatay suffered the worst damage in the earthquakes on the night of Feb. 6, approximately 700,000 people migrated to other cities.

The number of advertisements placed to sell second-hand houses in the market has been on an upward trend.

Potential homebuyers are increasingly turning to the second-hand market as prices of new houses have risen significantly due to the demand picking up.

More than 500,000 Turkish citizens living abroad have cast their ballots in the elections scheduled for May 14 at home in four days, according to the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) representative to the Supreme Election Council (YSK).

A revised set of criteria on the expedited process for granting immigration permits to third-country nationals who invest in Cyprus come into effect on Tuesday, the island's Interior Ministry has announced.

Columbia University professor Mark Lilla, a perspicacious liberal critic of the contemporary right and left, has an essay in the latest issue of Liberties Journal analyzing the appeal and perils of nostalgia.

Delphi Economic Forum and the Kyklos Ideon think tank, with the support of Patakis Publishers, are organizing an event titled "Greek Crisis: Lessons for the Future," on the occasion of the forthcoming publication of Charles H.