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Monday, February 8, 2016

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Minimum wage earners spend 1/5 of salary on gas bills

Minimum wage earners spend 1/5 of salary on gas bills

The average cost of a natural gas bill in the winter months in Turkey totals TL 268, »»
World
Saudi Arabia says open to sending special forces into Syria

Saudi Arabia says open to sending special forces into Syria

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir on Monday held out the possibility of sending »»
Arts & Culture
Borusan Philharmonic begins rehearsals for European tour

Borusan Philharmonic begins rehearsals for European tour

The Borusan İstanbul Philharmonic (BİFO) started rehearsals on Monday for its upcoming »»
Expat Zone
The wisdom of footballers

The wisdom of footballers

Two jewels showed up during the week. The first was a BBC television interview with »»
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Broncos stun Panthers to clinch Super Bowl crown

Broncos stun Panthers to clinch Super Bowl crown

A reborn Orange Crush might have sent Peyton Manning into retirement with a Super »»
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Kurds, Turkey and Syria in the Middle East and the ’Battle for Syria’: (2) 
by ROBERT OLSON* 

February 08, 2016, Monday/ 14:06:33 
In this piece I want to address further the topic of the situation of the Kurds as embedded in the evolving geopolitics of the Middle East, especially Turkey. In the Jan. 17 edition of this newspaper, I quoted the Dec. 17, 2015 International Crisis Group report that said the policy of Turkey, or at least of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), was “to bypass the most prominent Kurdish actors Abdullah Öcalan, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and 

Japan’s wrong way out 
by ADAIR TURNER* 

February 08, 2016, Monday/ 12:32:04 
Financial markets were surprised by the Bank of Japan's recent introduction of negative interest rates on some commercial bank reserves. They shouldn't have been. The BOJ clearly needed to take some new policy action to achieve its target of 2 percent inflation. But neither negative interest rates nor further expansion of the BOJ's already huge program of quantitative easing (QE) will be sufficient to offset the strong deflationary forces that Japan now 
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