“THE TURKISH LANGUAGE HAS A VERY MELODIC STRUCTURE”
Having served in Ankara for more than a year, Belgian Ambassador Hendrik Van de Velde says he believes Türkiye’s future lies within Europe, stating, “I genuinely see Türkiye as a European country....
Austrian Ambassador to Türkiye, Gabriele Juen, is currently occupied with a very different agenda apart from the intense diplomacy and political schedule. About two months ago, Juen adopted a kitten abandoned on the embassy premises by her mother. Juen,...
Working with a network of volunteers, Uta Gaarder has been quietly building a bridge between Türkiye’s street dogs and new families in Germany. Each year, she helps rehome nearly 100 animals that once lived on the streets or in...
As part of the Türkiye Culture Route Festival, artist Zeynep Munzur hosted an "Artistic Necktie Workshop" in the garden of the Devlet Resim ve Heykel Müzesi. The event, which saw the participation of Hrvoje Cvitanovic, Croatia's Ambassador to Ankara,...
German conductor Cornelia von Kerssenbrock, who will take the stage this week with the Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO), said that in her early years, some male conductors told her a woman could not do this job. Noting that some...
Living in Ankara, Selen Eryüce became the champion in her Age Group by surpassing all her competitors in the ‘Ironman 140.6’ competition held in Florida, USA. With this success, Eryüce earned the right to compete in the 2025 World...
Albania’s Ambassador to Ankara, Blerta Kadzadej, said Türkiye and Albania share more than 500 years of common history. “That is a very long time. For five centuries, two cultures lived side by side and existed under the same empire....
POLISH AMBASSADOR MACIEJ LANG
HIS FAVORITE WORD IS ‘EFENDİM,’ THE MOST CHALLENGING ONE IS ‘GERÇEKTEN’
Maciej Lang, who first came to Ankara in 2018 and served as Poland’s Ambassador to Türkiye for two years, returned to the post again in February...
In a small shop on Mardin’s historic First Avenue, Melek Akarmut, known locally as the “Marilyn Monroe of Mardin,” has built a life around caring for stray animals. She funds this work by selling handmade soap produced from donkey...
JAPANESE AMBASSADOR TAKAHIKO KATSUMATA:
‘HOSPITALITY’ PERFECTLY REFLECTS OUR BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP
Takahiko Katsumata, who first came to Türkiye in 1983 to learn Turkish, later served twice as a diplomat at the Japanese Embassy in Türkiye, and was finally appointed as Japanese Ambassador...
