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The Baksı Museum, established in the Bayraktar village of the northeastern province of Bayburt and the recipient of the 2014 European Council Museum Award, will host an extraordinary personal exhibition in 2017 from its founder, Professor Hüsamettin Koçan. 

Istanbul means the Grand Bazaar in a sense. The bazaar was first built by the Byzantine Empire, but the Ottomans carried on and expanded the building further. The bazaar was one of the first covered markets of the world. Nearly 600 years later, the building still stands. The bazaar symbolizes how Istanbul has been a business center of the Middle East and the Balkans.

As carpet production has ended in the Central Anatolian province of Konya's Ladik neighborhood, the city's world famous Ladik carpets are dying out. Ladik, located in the province's Sarayönü district, had been considered one of the most important centers of carpet and rug production since the 17th century. 

The best news in recent days is this: One of the most important port cities of the ancient era, Phaselis in Antalya, has finally been saved with its ruins dating back to the seventh century B.C. together with its endemic plants, whose names are mentioned in mythology.

Europe cannot sweep the problem of refugees from the Middle East and northern Africa under the carpet, it needs to find a joint solution, says Tomislav Nikolic.

In an interview for the Rossiya (Russia) 1 television channel late on Wednesday, Nikolic underscored that Europe did not create the problem on its own "but cannot stall the search for a solution either."

Iran's famed carpet weavers are busy at work following the country's historic nuclear deal with world powers, anticipating a boost in exports as sanctions are set to be lifted in the months ahead.

An 89-year-old carpet, which was gifted to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during his trip to the western province of U?ak, was lost at the newly restored Atatürk Museum.

The museum underwent restoration in 2013 and reopened last month. One of six historical cotton U?ak carpets, the 12-meter-squared carpet was lost during the restoration work. 

Marine Le Pen, “superstar” of the French Far Right movement presented herself in a way that very few had seen her before. Wearing a dress which left her shoulders bare, the leader of the far-right National Front, Marine appeared in New York, walking on the red carpet, just a few steps away from Kim Kardashian.

Britain's Prince Charles said the numbers of vulnerable young Muslims being radicalized by "crazy stuff" on the Internet was "frightening", in an interview to be broadcast Feb. 8.
      
The heir to the throne also voiced concern about Christians fleeing the Middle East in droves, saying the situation might end with very few left in the cradle of the religion.
      

Greece urgently needs foreign capital and investments. It should be clear by now that there is no magic recipe that can help the country create new jobs and leave the financial crisis behind.

All our neighbors are giving foreign investors the red carpet treatment. Meanwhile, the Greek champions of sterile rejectionism prefer to treat investors with rowdy protests.