Toy

Israel won the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon after singer Netta Barzilai beat 25 other contestants with her up-tempo song "Toy" whose lyrics were inspired by the #MeToo movement.

A large toy museum displaying toys from all over the world has been inaugurated in the Black Sea province of Samsun.

Which are the most dangerous and which - the most attractive toys on the market at the moment? Christmas is coming in less than than two weeks, and the big shopping for the kids has begun.

Hundreds of thousands Chinese-made carcinogenic toys and frames were seized by custom enforcement officers at Istanbul’s Ambarlı Harbor on Dec. 4, daily Habertürk has reported. 

Turkish authorities seized 19 tonnes of toys smuggled into the country from China, with most of them containing carcinogenic substances, Turkish Hambert newspaper reports today.

A dog covered in mud carries a toy in its mouth at the entrance of a house in the town of Mandra, in western Athens, on Thursday. Rescue crews scoured floodwaters for residents missing after flash floods cut a swathe of destruction near the Greek capital, killing at least 16 people and tossing cars into buildings like toys. [EPA] 

The Benaki Toy Museum, housed in a fairy-tale edifice at Palaio Faliro on Athens's southern coast, is poised to open its doors to the public for the first time Sunday.

It is the latest addition to the Benaki group of museums and is based on a vast collection of vintage toys donated by Maria Argyriadi.

Thieves have stolen some 50,000-worth euros of dildos in the world’s biggest sex toy heist at an erotic fair in Berlin.
The bizarre crime happened at the annual Venus-Berlin exhibition in Germany this week.
Staff from one of the exhibitors – Fun Toys London – were packing up their stand at the end of the fair when the items disappeared, the company said.

The Benaki Museum is unveiling the latest addition to its already sizable family. The Toy Museum is housed in a late 19th century villa on Athens's southern coast that resembles a fairy-tale castle which was donated to the Benaki Museum by Vera Kouloura.

Archaeologists have unearthed ancient toys dating 2,000 years back in the Hellenistic period in the ancient seaport of Parion, located in Turkey’s northwestern province of Canakkale.