Philosophy of life

When it comes to food preferences, but not only that aspect of life, the saying “One man’s meat is another man’s poison” is a fair and balanced one. Unless of course you are a fanatic vegan, in which case that saying is not even in your vocabulary!

How happy are the people of the Balkans? Not so much, if a new table released in New York on Monday on International Day of Happiness - which the UN has promoted since 2012 - is anything to judge by.

Director of the IMF’s Communications Department Gerry Rice lowered the bar of expectations of an imminent agreement with Greece on the conclusion of the second review in a press briefing. Mr. Rice said that serious differences between the sides still existed, despite progress on some fronts in the talks.

The overall level of happiness increased in Turkey in 2016 when compared with 2015, according to statistics released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK). 

In 2015, 56.6 percent of individuals said they were happy, which later increased to 61.3 percent in 2016. 

I tried to enter the New Year with hope and joy. 

Two significant, esteemed and treasured people of the literature world, writer Aslı Erdoğan and writer and linguist Necmiye Alpay have been freed from prison. We wish the same for the rest of the literary and press world. 

Self-help books and therapists have been advising readers for decades that the key to a healthy and successful relationship is sex – and lots of it.

I first met the journalist Kadri Gürsel more than 20 years ago. But I got to know him better after I moved to Istanbul from Ankara in 2005, when I began to see him more frequently. Each time we met, developments in Turkey had taken a worse turn than they were in our previous meetings.

Olbios in Ancient Greek means the person who is happy, fortunate and blessed, and is perhaps the most apt term to describe people all over the world who donate their time and effort to good causes.

Skyrocketing demand for tarot card, coffee cup and tea leaf readers; communities dealing with drought by holding religious litanies; the private lives of judges revealed to all and sundry; anti-establishment groups hailing themselves as the "Sword of Damocles" and staging "symbolic" - to use their term - attacks against public buildings; the general sense of repugnance for all things learned an

The slowdown in international trade, the prospect of Britain leaving the European Union, global oil rates and the monetary policies of the Fed and the European Central Bank are the main concerns of Greek exporters.