Venice

Turkey's pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, was inaugurated on May 26, featuring the project Darzanà. 

Many phrases the English playwright coined have stood the test of time—some 400 years after his death.

William Shakespeare had a way with words that helped shape the way we now speak English.

More than 1 million season tickets and one day entry cards have been sold for EXPO 2016 Antalya, just days before one of the leading global horticultural exhibitions opens its doors to tourists from Turkey and abroad.

Porto Hydra Village, the Venice of Argosaronic Gulf , is situated in the Peloponnesian mainland, just opposite the island of Hydra. It is founded in the mid 70’s and, ever since, undergoes a spectacular growth and expansion.

In 2005, 27 million movie tickets were sold in Turkey. The ticket sales surpassed 60 million in 2015. Turkey takes second place after Russia as the fastest growing movie industry in Europe. Turkey is also the only country in Europe where national cinema takes more than half of the market share. While there were 29 Turkish movies produced in 2005, that number shot to 136 in 2015.

Azerbaijan has opened a criminal case against a prominent author who has been a target of a state-approved intimidation campaign after publishing a novel he says was intended to build bridges with arch-foe Armenia.

"Police launched a criminal case against me on hooliganism charges," Akram Aylisli, who has received threats and seen his books burned, told AFP on April 1.    

Brussels’ metro station attacker Khalid El Bakraoui had reached Greece from Italy in July 2015, according to Sky Italia TV network citing Italian counter-terrorism unit sources.

Specifically, on July 23, 2015, he flew to Italian city Treviso from Brussels and the next morning he flew from Marco Polo Airport in Venice to Athens.

According to site ‘TripAdvisor’, Athens is one of the best travel destinations in Europe for 2016. The site, which is arguably the most popular online resource for all things holiday, ranked Athens 12th in its ‘Travellers’ Choice Awards’.

Travelers very often get disappointed when their destination does not live up their expectation, either because they imagined it differently or because it looked differently on the Internet.

Expectation is a dangerous thing and the higher the expectations, the greater the chance they will be dashed.

Istanbul's Tophane-i Amire Culture and Art Center hosts an exhibition organized as the Turkish leg of the 'Ottomans and Europeans: Reflecting on Five Centuries of Cultural Relations' project supported by the EUOrganized with the collaboration of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (?KSV) and Italy's Cittadellarte-Pistoletto Foundation, an exhibition titled "Ottomans and Europeans: Past