Bursa

If you think everybody leaves their town during summer holidays, you are wrong. Me and many people like me enjoy the holiday tranquility of the city. Holidays are not only times to rest and relax but also to nurture and renew.  

If you care about your brain - I would recommend you do - as much as you care about your body, do make a culture program for yourself. 

Underwater archaeological work has started on the remains of a 1,600-year-old basilica that was discovered at the beginning of 2014 under Lake ?znik in the northwestern province of Bursa. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an held an iftar dinner for prominent names from the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). I have to say that I resented the fact that the head of Diyanet, Mehmet Görmez, came with the controversial luxury Mercedes and stop there.

At the dinner, former heads of Diyanet talked about religious education and the perception of religion in society.

About 200 document files and computers have been seized by ?zmir police after a 21 hour-long search of an ?zmir-based foundation and a private university and its linked hospital, as well as a Bursa-based company which was said to have business ties with the foundation, as part of an investigation launched over allegations of financially supporting the alleged ?parallel structure.?

It was the year 2011. Ay?e was a 20-year-old woman living in the Marmara city of Bursa. She was slightly handicapped. As a woman of 20 years old, she had poor judgement; she could be tricked into doing things for candy. 

Ay?e met Cem on Facebook. Cem built trust in Ay?e. They met in a park; Cem took Ay?e to his home.  

The Turkish arm of French carmaker Renault on May 23 offered concessions including a cash lump sum to striking workers if they return to work, but the workers have rejected the offer and announced that they will continue their labor action.

Bursa, Turkey?s automotive hub, is going through a labor uprising that?s worth a generation. Generally a center-right leaning town for decades, the city of my childhood is becoming a symbol of workers? resistance. Not surprisingly, the auto industry is at the heart of it.

Renault could reconsider investment in Turkey after a labor dispute has stopped production at its Turkish joint venture Oyak Renault, the French car maker's head of Eurasia said on May 21, as quoted by Reuters. 

Ford Otosan, the Turkish arm of Ford, cancelled an extra working shift on May 19 citing supply chain problems amid widening labor unrest in Turkey?s automotive sector.

Production at two major carmakers, Oyak Renault and Tofa?, which account for more than 40 percent of Turkey?s annual car production, was halted earlier this week due to demands for better working conditions. 

Thousands of workers from the factories of car giants Tofa? and Oyak Renault in western Turkey continued their strike on May 19, in a rare wage dispute to hit the country's flourishing car sector.