Faruk Eczacıbaşı

Coronathon Türkiye, an online event to harness ideas to counter the adverse effects of the coronavirus pandemic, has brought in some 1,500 people working on innovative projects in the first day, its organizers have said.

In the year 1996, in the eastern and southeastern regions of Turkey, "unresolved murders" were commonplace. The "East Report" by the head of Sabancı Holding, Sakıp Sabancı, had just been issued at the time. An enormous cycle of violence was about to end in the southeast. 

Members of the Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul women's volleyball team, which won the world title in the Philippine capital Manila on Oct. 23, was given a hero's welcome upon arriving back at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport on Oct. 25.