December 2011
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December 14, 2011
House Hunting in … Turkey By NINA ROBERTS
A SEVEN-BEDROOM WOODEN HOUSE ON AN ISLAND OFF ISTANBUL
$1.5 MILLION (2,742,371 TURKISH LIRA)
This 1920s-era house is on tranquil Buyukada, the largest of the nine Princes’ Islands, 12 miles off Istanbul. It has two stories and about 3,800 square feet of space, on a 12,400-square-foot property on the island, which does not...
Why France is so illiberal?
“I do not think I have ever met a Frenchman who was a liberal,” the late French literary critic Émile Faguet once ironically remarked. If he lived today, he could have preserved his pessimism, especially in the light of the latest work of the French National Assembly: A new law which penalizes “the denial of the Armenian Genocide” with a year in prison and a heavy...
via kirmizinokta:
Hürriyet Daily News Turkey gets F grade in English [December/22/2011]
A study by the research foundation TEPAV, which warns about poor foreign language skills in Turkish society, claims a better English education would support economic growth
A group of young people are seen during a class at an English school in Istanbul. The level of English is important in terms of...
