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World's Tallest Man and Replica of House of Mary are Highlights at 2013 Anatolian Cultures and Food Festival in California LOS ANGELES, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Californians will be able to see the world's tallest man at the Fourth Anatolian Cultures and Food Festival, which returns to the Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa on May 16-19, 2013. 31-year-old Sultan Kosen stands at 8 feet 3 inches tall and The Guinness Book of World Records lists him as the world's tallest living...

ISTANBUL, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced the opening of two new branch offices in Turkey as it continues to increase its presence in the fastest growing markets in the world. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120912/NY72331 ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) The two new locations in the cities of Adana and Bursa are IBM's latest additions to a growing network of offices in Turkey including those in Istanbul,...

U.S. television talk show diva Oprah Winfrey has been honored in Turkey with a traditional Ottoman Mehteran band and whirling dervishes, observers say. Winfrey arrived in Istanbul Monday aboard the ship Norwegian Gem along with all 1,600 of her employees, including some part-time contractors and their families, whom she had taken on a Mediterranean cruise, the Anatolian News Agency reported. Winfrey threw a party for them at the Ciragan Palace Hotel as part of a sea cruise that started in...

Gregory Isenor, P.Geo., President and CEO of Merrex Gold Inc. ("Merrex")(TSX VENTURE: MXI) announces that Merrex and its Turkish strategic partner, AgeanGold Madencilik Ltd. Sti, ("AgeanGold") have optioned to Roscan Minerals (BVI) Corp. ("Roscan") a 50% interest in four properties in the Republic of Turkey. Commentary "Our Siribaya Gold Project in Mali continues to be our flagship" said President Gregory Isenor. "While keeping Siribaya front and centre, Merrex continues to search worldwide...

By Suzan Fraser Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey -- Outside the Zekai Tahir Burak maternity hospital stands a bronze statue of a mother nursing a baby with an inscription from the Prophet Muhammad: "Paradise lies at the feet of the mother." In July, the Ankara facility became the scene of any parent's hell. A total of 27 newborns died there within two weeks, most of them from infection. Now Turkey is reeling from a similar tragedy at another hospital, this time in the western city of Izmir,...

AN investigation has been launched after 13 premature babies died yesterday - possibly from infection-in a hospital in Izmir, Turkey. (c) 2008 Daily Mirror. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

Text of report in English by Turkish news agency Anatolia Izmir, 13 July: Turkey's Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said Sunday that an American oil company asked for permission from their ministry to seek oil in the Black Sea. Guler told reporters in the Aegean city of Izmir that they were worried over soaring fuel oil prices and indicated that oil drilling in the Black Sea would begin in 2009. Guler pointed out the high costs of drilling, both in sea and land, and said they did not want to be...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake shook western Turkey early on Friday, causing slight damage to several buildings and resulting in 15 casualties from the ensuing panic, the local governor said. The Kandilli earthquake observation center said the tremor, at 0:40 a.m. (2140 GMT), measured 5.9 on the Richter scale and its epicentre was in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Seferihisar in Izmir province. Izmir Governor Oguz Kagan Goksal told the CNN Turk television channel 15...

By Gulseren Nalbantoglu IZMIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish police increased security at tourist resorts on Sunday as investigators sifted through the wreckage of a minibus ripped apart by a bomb that killed five people, including a British and an Irish woman. In the normally bustling Aegean resort of Kusadasi, the site of Saturday's blast, locals and tourists were uneasy and streets were quieter than normal after the second attack to hit the area in a week at the height of the tourism season....

LONDON (Reuters) - Five British nationals were seriously injured in a minibus blast in the western Turkish resort of Kusadasi on Saturday which killed four people and injured 14 others, the Foreign Office said. A sixth British national suffered minor injuries but there were not believed to be any British fatalities, a Foreign Office spokeswoman said. British consular officials were with the injured at hospital and a senior honorary consul was on his way to Kusadasi from the port city of...