Formed in 1997, The Blood Brothers is a multifaceted band that is constantly challenging themselves and reinventing their sound. Young Machetes, the band’s fifth full length, is no exception to the rule, as it embarks in yet another, unexplored direction. Shortly after the album’s release, singer Jordan Blilie took some time from his busy schedule […]
Warning Voice ! What every driver needs
There should be a “Warning Voice” that tells the driver to keep their hands on the wheel, with the exception of using the gear-stick, choke and only allowing the switching on and off the radio or changing tapes at the start of the journey or when moving slow. The other current dangerous act is drivers […]
A book review
As if the Stern Report wasn’t enough to highlight the potentially cataclysmic nature of global warming, the UN has published its own book “Tore and the town on thin ice” for children. Tore, the protagonist, lives in an arctic village and enters a sled race. During the race he rides over thin ice, which breaks […]
Chief surgeon denies testicle fiasco
Rıza Sarıbabıçcı, chief surgeon of Konya Numune Hospital, on Sunday, December 17 rejected reports published in Turkish daily Hurriyet that female observant Muslim members of his staff refused an ultrasound to an adolescent male suffering from testicular torsion. The boy, Ali Faruk G., according to hospital registers, came to the hospital’s urology department seeking treatment […]
Body polemics ala Turka
Singer and producer Bülent Ersoy, a male-to-female transsexual and a national icon, was harassed by Mustafa TopaloÄŸlu, a singer who often appears on weekend programes airing on religious-leaning channels. While at an anniversary party for the Association of Customs employees on Friday, December 8, TopaloÄŸlu claimed to the press that “Miss Bülent” was not showing […]
The patients of a saint
A staff member of the biology department at Dumlupınar University, located in Turkey‘s province of Kühtaya, has been indicted along with his wife for allegations of blasphemy-namely, posing as a saint to bilk money from pious locals in the search of divine healing. The trial against Dr. Osman Nuri BenlioÄŸlu and his wife Hatice Kübra […]