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17 votes
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Turkey and Germany in spicy feud over doner kebab
23 votes -
How Turkey moved east – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the rise of an Anatolian foreign policy
5 votes -
Table manners in the Ottoman Empire - Acem pilav
16 votes -
What prevents and what drives gendered ideological polarisation?
11 votes -
Turkey's parliament votes to let Sweden join NATO
36 votes -
FC Köpenhamn moved into the last sixteen of the UEFA Champions League for the first time since 2010-11 as they beat Galatasaray
7 votes -
A sweet solution: turning winery waste into jelly
16 votes -
Claire Saffitz cooks her ideal Thanksgiving start to finish
10 votes -
Checkmate in Nagorno-Karabakh? How Azerbaijan got Armenia to back down.
8 votes -
Turkey introduces ‘family’ course in schools to ‘fight’ homosexuality
16 votes -
US government imposes sanctions on five Turkish corporations over dealings with Russia
7 votes -
The earthquakes in Turkey killed a prolific war crimes investigator, deputy chief of Syria investigations for the Commission for International Justice and Accountability
9 votes -
Spectacular meteor streaks across night sky in Turkey
15 votes -
Archaeologists in Turkey have identified massive structures below a Roman-era castle
28 votes -
Capturing the spirit of ancient seafaring, the reconstructed Viking sailboat "Saga Farmann" has successfully completed an epic journey from Norway's Tønsberg to Istanbul
16 votes -
The post-WWI migrations that built Yugoslavia and Turkey have left a painful legacy
13 votes -
Regarding the eviction of the self-organized refugee camp in Lavrio, Greece. How Turkey's war on Kurds and the European Union’s War on migrants intersect
8 votes -
Turkey is heading for a classic currency crisis. All of its reserves and then some are borrowed.
28 votes -
Turkey agrees to support Sweden’s NATO application
34 votes -
Sweden's Supreme Court approves the extradition of a supporter of the Kurdistan Workers' Party to Turkey, ahead of NATO membership talks with Ankara
8 votes -
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan fights for survival with strategy of hope and fear
12 votes -
The other Turkish voters who could be crucial
4 votes -
Finland's bid to join NATO has finally secured the backing of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
11 votes -
Humble Turkey-Syria Earthquake Relief Bundle
8 votes -
Parkour hide and seek in Burj Al Babas, an abandoned Disneyland-like village
5 votes -
How Turkey is ruining NATO's moment of unity – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is blocking the quick membership addition of Sweden and Finland to the alliance
7 votes -
Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
8 votes -
A Dutch researcher named Frank Hoogerbeets had predicted the Turkey earthquake two days before it had happened
Dude actually made this tweet on 3rd February, two days before the dreaded quake hit Turkey: Sooner or later there will be a ~M 7.5 #earthquake in this region (South-Central Turkey, Jordan, Syria,...
Dude actually made this tweet on 3rd February, two days before the dreaded quake hit Turkey:
Sooner or later there will be a ~M 7.5 #earthquake in this region (South-Central Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon). #deprem
What's interesting about this researcher is that he doesn't study earthquakes through the traditional or established way of Seismology. Instead, his institute, SSGEOS specializes in "monitoring geometry between celestial bodies related to seismic activity". It's incredible how little we know about the world we live in and how much more there is to know yet.
5 votes -
Sweden's top court has prevented the extradition of exiled Turkish journalist Bulent Kenes, saying it was impossible under the circumstances
3 votes -
Three things I got wrong about patriarchy
5 votes -
Turkey will now be known as Türkiye (at least at the UN)
15 votes -
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says Turkey not supportive of Finland, Sweden joining NATO
6 votes -
Turkey has built the longest suspension bridge in the world
5 votes -
A plastic bag’s 2,000-mile journey shows the messy truth about recycling
6 votes -
Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment (Live) (Ep. 130)
4 votes -
The power of concepts under authoritarianism: The life of Arendt’s banality of evil in Turkey
6 votes -
Crypto exchange founder disappears with $2 billion
15 votes -
Ukraine turns to Turkey as Russia threatens full-scale war
10 votes -
How Syria's disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets
6 votes -
One year since the Turkish invasion of Rojava: An interview with Tekoşîna Anarşîst
7 votes -
The Turkish century; Part 3: New beginnings
6 votes -
My Analog Journey: Portable Session - Rare Turkish Anatolian rock, funk and jazz (2020)
5 votes -
Economic crisis of Turkish football clubs
An announcement shook Turkish football seriously. Turkish Football Federation (TFF) announced spending limits for clubs. That is very low because club debts. Everybody knew it would happen one...
An announcement shook Turkish football seriously. Turkish Football Federation (TFF) announced spending limits for clubs. That is very low because club debts. Everybody knew it would happen one day. But corona took early that crisis. All of big Turkish clubs near to bankrupt. Their total debts over 2 billion dollars. Clubs signed too heavy deals with goverment banks. Goverment and TFF try to keep up clubs alive.
This isnt about only coronavirus or only Turkish economy. Clubs loaned more and more each year since the early 2000s. Presidents of clubs spend money badly, they transfer useless football players. And now money ran out ! And of course, turkish lira in crisis. Clubs gains with turkish lira, but spend with euro. And Lira still unstable. Euro/Lira increased from 7.7 to 8.6 in just one month. Its ~%10 lost only one month. Broadcaster company BEIN SPORTS, pay less money to federation for corona and lira crisis. Debts, income loss, lira crisis, corona. Everythings
Yearly spending limits of some big FCs:
- Galatasaray: 58m €
- Besiktas: 35m €
- Fenerbahce: 20m € (too low)
- Basaksehir: 20m €
- Trabzonspor: 17.5m €
That values very low. For this budgeds, clubs cant transfers. Someones should make the team smaller like fenerbahce. Fenerbahce protest that limits but they have 600m $ unstructured debt and they can't show income ! I think if this year fenerbahce cant be champion and can't go to the Champions Leauge, their clubs will be mortgaged or to be sold in the near future. A very rich bussines man -Ali Koc- became president of this club and he transferred a significant amount of money to the club. But for two years he was not successful in terms of sports.
There is also Başakşehir. Our champion, Basaksehir played really bad footbal againts Copenhagen FC and eliminated from Champions Leage. But Basaksehir is a brand-new club, in fact they were established in 2014. They have profesional management team and every year become better since 2014. Today, they became champions for the first time and may be the brightest club in Turkey. Some arabs from Qatar want to buy this club. Fans do not react to this. Because this 6-year-old club has almost no supporters. They became champions, but they didn't celebrate. (Ironically, I am one of the very few fans of Başakşehir.)
Galatasaray is less worried about debts. Because they postponed their debts for 5 years (with insane interest rate) But still too many debt in 5 year. the 115 year old club has many lands. Club think they can pay off the debts by selling the land at in the good areas of İstanbul.
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TFF Spending Limits: https://www.tff.org/default.aspx?pageID=687&ftxtID=33547 (Not in turkish)8 votes -
The Turkish century; part 2: The journey of the Turkish Republic
4 votes -
Turkey turns the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque
7 votes -
Twitter removes Chinese misinformation campaign
10 votes -
The history of Turkey until Atatürk
10 votes -
Russia, Turkey may have carried out war crimes in Syria, UN says
7 votes -
Thirty-three Turkish soldiers killed in attack in Idlib, mostly by the Russian Airforce
9 votes