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Turkey is considering employing foreign doctors in order to fill vacancies in public hospitals, with Greek professionals being one of their main targets, Health Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu has said.

Problems with stringent heritage laws notwithstanding, Ayvalık is an enchanting place of old Rum houses that even pack one entrepreneurial surprise – one of the most unique women’s cooperatives in the country Last week I might have been a bit negative about this cute little Rum place, so here is a positive story about Ayvalık.

Turkey’s main opposition party has filed a criminal complaint against the country’s state broadcaster, arguing that the channel is airing one-sided coverage of the presidential campaign to the advantage of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations is hosting a new exhibition in which everyday objects, inspired by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence, are plucked from the intimate space of the museum and put back in Istanbul’s public space “The handkerchief in box 9 is Füsun’s white childhood handkerchief with embroidery on the corner.” Füsun,

On the plane to Sydney, Australia this week, I took to reading Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s “The Time Regulation Institute” (1961). I had time; the flight from Abu Dhabi to Sydney takes 12 hours. Penguin Classics recently published an English translation by Maureen Feely and Alexander Dawe. It is a lot of fun to read and I highly recommend it.

Turkey’s top business representative, Turkey’s Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges Chairman Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, has been named the leader of the businessmen’s board that will deal with the preparations of the Business 20 (B-20) summit to be held in Turkey in 2015.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film “Kış Uykusu” (Winter Sleep), which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on May 24 and was released in Turkish movie theaters on June 13, drew over 237,000 viewers in its first month, becoming Ceylan’s most-watched film, according to the Turkish Box Office.

This is the last week to catch Ara Güler’s never-before-seen works, on display at the Smithsonian in Washington DC since the end of last year Ara Güler is known as one of Turkey’s most prominent photojournalist and since Dec. 21 last year his never-before-seen works have been on display at the Smithsonian, in Washington D.C.

I do not know whether the inhabitants of Gülpinar know they are stepping on the ruins of an ancient city whose story is related to the small creatures that have brought havoc to their area since early antiquity: farm mice, the sminthos.

An Ankara court has continued to try 18 unsolved political murders from the 1990’s in light of new documents provided by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), unearthing some state institutions’ responsibility in these killings in cooperation with ultranationalist mafia.