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HISTORICAL PLACES AROUND KUSADASI

HISTORICAL PLACES AROUND KUSADASI



VIRGIN MARY
Located on the top of the "Bulbul" mountain 9 km ahead of Ephesus, the shrine of the Virgin Mary enjoys a marvelous atmosphere hidden between trees. It is the place where Mary may have spent her last days. Indeed, she may have come to the area together with Saint John, who spent several years in the area to spread Christianity. Mary preferred this remote place rather than living in crowded places. The house is a typical Roman architectural example, made entirely of stones.


EPHESUS
Ephesus, known as one of the most fascinating archeological sites in the world, was a large port and trading center at the crossroads of important trade routes, such as the King road and the Silk road. As the most visited antique site of Turkey, Ephesus is the gate to Turkey's presentation to the world. Every year millions of visitors come to Ephesus for its marvelous and mystical atmosphere. Huge granite columns are witnesses of the city's former magnificence and many worth-seeing sites surround it: the Artemision, one the Seven Wonders, Saint-John's church, the Cave of the Seven Sleepers, the Shrine of the Virgin Mary, the Mosque of Isabey and the archeological museum of Selcuk. Originally Ephesus was a harbour city but due to the Menderes alluviums over the centuries, the site is now removed from the sea by about 5-6 kms.


PIRIENE - MILETOS - DIDYMA
Priene which is in Güllübahçe at a distance of 15 km from Söke, was carried to its present locality in the year 350 B.C. from the original place where it had been founded earlier.Miletos which is in the vicinity of Söke, was on the seashore in the ancient times.Didyma was a cult center for the city of Miletos It is located in the present-day village of Yeniköy, about fifteen kilometers from the site of Miletos


NATIONAL PARK
The heavily forested area which is Dilek Peninsula, the extension of Samsun Mountains to the Aegean Sea, has been protected as a National Park in 1966. The National Park includes an area of 11.000 hectares and it is on the borders of Kusadasi district and at the south of the centrum.

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British minister criticises airlines

British minister criticises airlines

Ian Pearson, a British government minister, has heavily criticised some airlines in the Guardian newspaper. He said they're not doing enough to cut down on carbon emissions to help stop climate change. The BBC's political correspondent, Mark Sanders, reports from Westminster:

Ian Pearson's barbed criticisms go well beyond what any minister has said before about the aviation industry and its attitude towards the environment. He told the Guardian, "When it comes to climate change, Ryanair are not just the unacceptable face of capitalism, they are the irresponsible face of capitalism". Ryanair insisted that Mr Pearson was misinformed.

There are plans to include aviation in Europe's Emissions Trading Scheme. Airlines would be issued with pollution permits; those that cut emissions would be able to sell their surplus while an airline that increased its emissions would have to buy more permits.

The minister said that "British Airways are only just playing ball" and that the American airlines' attitude to the scheme was "a disgrace." His attack on the industry comes at a time when the government is sensitive to criticism that its policies on aviation and climate change are too timid.

Mark Sanders, Political Correspondent, BBC News

The 275 million dollar man ! David Beckham

The 275 million dollar man

David Beckham and his 275 million dollar move
David Beckham's move from Real Madrid to LA Galaxy has been called the biggest sports deal in history. The deal is worth $250 million over five years. This report from Stephen Evans:


Lots of sports stars endorse sports products for money, but few have become brands that appeal way beyond the stadium. The two best examples come from half a century ago: Fred Perry and Rene Lacoste were tennis champions who created fashion clothes companies. If David Beckham did the same, moving to the US would help enormously because it's the one big market where his name's not yet mega.

His appeal is obvious with his blond hair, perfect body and winning smile, what some people call "metrosexual". Marketing people say his "key brand values" are "physicality, sexuality, sensitivity and success" He has a smooth image that already has huge female appeal in Japan, for example, and which led Gillette to use him as its clean-shaven face.

According to the business magazine, Forbes, the top earning sports star last year was Tiger Woods on ninety million dollars. But Beckham's closing fast by turning himself into what seems like a Hollywood image, aided by his wife, Victoria, who's famous as a pop star.
There's some life in Beckham, the sportsman, yet but much more in Beckham, the image. As they say in the business: "When the legs have gone, the brand plays on".

Stephen Evans, BBC

India's media reaction to Big Brother

India's media reaction to Big Brother

Shilpa Shetty appearing on British "Celebrity Big Brother"
Since the eviction of Jade Goody from the British reality TV show "Big Brother", according to the British press, Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty is now the most popular housemate. But in India, the media is telling a very different story. Anna Cunningham from BBC Asian Network reports:

Mumbai is no stranger to the world of glitz and glamour but the home of Bollywood is starting to question the motives of one of its most established actresses, Shilpa Shetty, who is currently starring in the British reality TV show "Celebrity Big Brother".

Faced with racist bullying by other housemates, first there was sympathy, but now the media here in India is becoming increasingly negative. Despite her claims of representing Indians, media reports here accuse her of only trying to revive a failing career and of taking part in the reality show for the money.

Although Jade Goody, the housemate who made the racist comments about Shilpa, has apologised, the knock-on effect may be felt long-term in India. As British companies withdraw Jade's top-selling perfume from the shelves, it's losing work for people in Mumbai where the perfume bottles are manufactured.

Anna Cunningham, BBC Asian Network

Tens of thousands bid farewell to murdered Turkish-Armenian journalist

Tens of thousands bid farewell to murdered Turkish-Armenian journalist

Hrant Dink, killed over his views on the mass killings of Armenians during World War I, was buried on Tuesday.
(FT, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Turkish Daily News - 24/01/07; AP, AFP, Reuters, DPA, AKI, FT, International Herald Tribune, BBC, VOA - 23/01/07)

Tens of thousands of mourners honoured slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink on Tuesday (January 23rd) in Istanbul. [Getty Images]
Some 100,000 people attended Tuesday (January 23rd) the funeral of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, whose murder has stirred a debate about freedom of expression, excessive nationalism and ethnic tolerance in Turkey.
Dink, 52, was the founder and editor of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, and devoted his life to the reconciliation between his community and majority Muslim Turks. He was gunned down in broad daylight on Friday, metres away from his paper's offices.
Ogun Samast, a 17-year-old from the eastern city of Trabzon, has confessed to killing the journalist for his statements regarding the 1915-1917 killings of 1.5 million Armenians, which Dink described as genocide -- an account sharply disputed by Turkey.
Police are questioning at least six other people. Among them is Yasin Hayal, a militant nationalist who spent nearly a year in prison for a 2004 bomb attack outside a McDonald's restaurant. Police said he has confessed to inciting the killing and providing a gun and money to Samast.
Dink's assassination shocked many in Turkey and sparked a wave of condemnation from EU and other foreign officials.
"The bullets aimed at Hrant Dink were shot into all of us," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, condemning the murder.
On Tuesday, mourners gathered at the square outside the Agos offices as the black hearse carrying the journalist's body set off on its 8km journey to the Armenian Church of the Virgin Mary.
Before the ceremony got under way, Dink's widow, Rakel, delivered a brief emotional speech, again asking that those attending the ceremony refrain from turning it into a political event.
"We are seeing off our brother with a silent walk, without slogans and without asking how a baby became a murderer," she said, surrounded by the couple's three children.
The mourners were mostly silent as they marched through the streets of Turkey's most vibrant city of 12 million people, where additional police forces were deployed and some roads were cordoned off.
Some of the people were holding identical black-and-white placards reading "We are all Hrant Dink" and "We are all Armenians". There were also signs reading "Murder 301," in reference to a controversial article in Turkey's penal code.
Scores of Turkish journalists, writers and intellectuals, including Dink and Orhan Pamuk, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature, have been prosecuted under the clause, which makes it a crime to "insult Turkishness".
"We still hope that (Turks) ... will accept that the Armenians are Turkish citizens who have been living on this land for thousands of years and are not foreigners or potential enemies," the Armenian patriarch of Istanbul, Mesrob II, told mourners during the service.
Among those attending the ceremony were Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin and Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu.
Besides representatives of Turkey's Armenian diaspora, Armenian religious leaders and government officials, including Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian, also attended the funeral following an official invitation by Ankara, which has no diplomatic relations with Yerevan.
"Hrant Dink was a man who supported dialogue and co-operation," Khajag Barsamyan, the archbishop of the Armenian Church of America, said in an interview with the International Herald Tribune. "His soul will be in peace when he sees that his assassination created some positive steps between two countries."
Dink was laid to rest at Balikli Armenian Cemetery, where his parents were also buried.

Police dog's life in danger

Police dog's life in danger

Agata is a Labrador dog that works for police in Leticia, Colombia. Agata has been so successful at finding illegal drugs that her life is now in danger. This report from Jeremy McDermott:

Agata is the star anti-narcotics agent in the frontier town of Leticia. Deep in the Amazonian jungle Leticia is a transit point for cocaine and heroin moving to Brazil and Peru. Tired of losing shipments thanks to Agata's vigilance, drugs traffickers have put a ten thousand dollar contract out on her life. The police response has been to assign Agata a bodyguard, as well as her handler, and check that no attempts are made to poison her.
Agata is one of almost seven hundred dogs trained by the police to sniff out drugs. Her beat is Leticia airport and the docks where traffic moves along the Amazon River. The five-year-old Labrador has so far discovered more than three hundred kilos of cocaine, worth more than seven million dollars, and twenty kilos of heroin.
The secret of Agata's success, according to her handler, is that she has boundless energy and is very playful, liking nothing better than to clamber around the luggage at the airport seeking out her prey.

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