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Jazz in Church Festival to take place over April 23 - 26 at Lutheran Church in Bucharest

The 8th edition of the Jazz in Church Festival will take place over April 23-26 at the Lutheran Church in Bucharest, informs a press release of the Jazz.ro Association sent to AGERPRES on Tuesday. Participating in the festival will be 20 artists from all over the world, who will perform jazz, medieval music, contemporary pieces and improvisations.

Why Turkish women are no ladies

The scene is the conference hall of the İzmir Bar Association. The occasion is the 82nd anniversary of Turkish women's suffrage. As Turks never get tired of telling you, in voices that drop an octave in admiration of a glorious/glorified past, Turkish women obtained the right to vote and be elected before some of their European sisters, thanks to the nation's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

DuoDecim Scripta | Athens | December 8

Xenia Tselinga (bayan), Despo Varoudaki (guitar/mandolin) and soprano Roxani Papadimitriou will perform works by Sergei Prokofiev that link Boris Pasternak with William Shakespeare, Federico Garcia Lorca with Friedrich Nietzsche and Edgar Allan Poe with Leo Tolstoy at St Paul's Anglican Church in Athens on Thursday, December 8. Starts at 8.30 p.m.

Stop terror, burn the bras, free the boobs

I will talk about boobs in this piece. No, not breasts, boobs. 

Those who are embarrassed to say ?boob? prefer to say ?breast? (?meme? and ?gö?üs? in Turkish). The Turkish Language Association (TDK) is included.

The TDK defines a brassiere, or bra, as ?women?s underwear made of fabric such as satin, lace to suspend breasts and show them round.?

Political resolution a must for Syria

Can it be possible to end the Syrian quagmire through some sort of a proxy war against a ruthless dictator by a coalition of not-so-clean democratic performance or an imperialist, hegemonic "coalition of the willing" aspiring, apart from some other comparatively less important strategic interests, to oust Russians from the Middle East?

Well-known Turkish Jewish couple murdered at Istanbul home, two suspects detained

A well-known Turkish Jewish couple who created one of the most iconic brands of Turkey have been murdered at their home in Istanbul.

Police found the bodies of Jak Karako, 77, and his wife, Georgia Karako, 69, at their apartment in Istanbul’s Ortaköy neighborhood on Aug. 22.

Well-known Turkish Jewish couple murdered at Istanbul home

A well-known Turkish Jewish couple who created one of the most iconic brands of Turkey have been murdered at their home in Istanbul.

Police found the bodies of Jak Karako, 77, and his wife, Georgia Karako, 69, at their apartment in Istanbul’s Ortaköy neighborhood on Aug. 22. Their caretaker, who fled, is suspected to have stabbed the couple.