Avier Bardem Warns The UN on Ocean Pollution
UNITED NATIONS (TURKISH JOURNAL) – By Janet Ekstract – Spain’s most famous actor and environmental activist, Javier Bardem warned the United Nations at a specially convened panel, that no one can afford to neglect the world’s oceans. Bardem made his case to UN delegates three days ago -urging all delegates to take ocean More...
New York’s world champion Turkish pizza chef awarded
NEW YORK – On August 10th, Hakki Akdeniz, the Turkish pizza acrobat and owner of the famous Champion Pizza chain in New York, was honored with two proclamations from The New York State Assembly. Akdeniz More...
Palestinian women hope to blaze a trail of innovation in science, technology
RAMALLAH (TURKISH JOURNAL) – Nishat Mirza – Gender equality can only be accomplished when males and females in a given society are equipped with the same opportunities to thrive. Women taking part in More...
New Syriac Orthodox Church in Istanbul
ISTANBUL – New Syriac Orthodox Church in Istanbul The Syriac Orthodox St. Ephrem Church in Istanbul held a historic groundbreaking ceremony on August 3. It is the first new church structure to be built More...
Music Goddess Extraordinaire: Loreena McKennit
By Janet Ekstract İZMİR (TURKISH JOURNAL) – Loreena McKennit certainly needs no introduction. A wildly, successful world music artist-composer who sold more than 14 million albums – not only possesses More...
UN Chief: Mediation-Conflict Prevention: Keys To Allay Human Suffering
UNITED NATIONS – By Janet Ekstract – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres focused on issues of escalating international crises in his recent weekly address and said that conflict prevention More...
Friends of the Oceans
UNITED NATIONS (TURKISH JOURNAL) – By Nishat Mirza – The United Nations is celebrating World Oceans Day June 8th, along with the people of small Islands, people from across cultures, and across gender More...
UNICEF: 115 million boys and men around the world married as children
UNITED NATIONS – An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, UNICEF said today in its first ever in-depth analysis of child grooms. Of these, 1 in 5 children, or 23 million, More...
UN: Turkish-Russian Working Group Offers Hope On Idlib Crisis
By Janet Ekstract UNITED NATIONS (TURKISH JOURNAL) – United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary Di Carlo made an urgent plea on Idlib in her briefing to the More...
The President of UNGA, Maria Fernanda Espinosa to fight against plastic pollution
UNITED NATIONS (TURKISH JOURNAL) – By Nishat Mirza – “The pollution from the oceans affects the livelihood of thousands of coastal communities”. Says María Fernanda Espinosa, United Nations President More...
