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One of New York’s most famous museums has opened a number of new Ottoman galleries, naming two of the new venues after the Koç family. “The New York ‘Met’ [Metropolitan Art Museum] is one of America’s top fine art institutions,” Rahmi Koç, the honorary president of Koç Holding, said at …

Turkey’s unemployment rate fell to 9.1 percent in the three months to August from 10.6 percent in the same period last year, official data showed on Monday, AFP reported. The number of jobless fell by 273,000 people to reach 2.509 million on a 12-month comparison, the statistics institute said on the basis …

For most of us September is the month that marks the end of summer, start of new school year and hope for new work opportunities. Some of us act fast and begin job search right away, some others procrastinate and postpone looking for career opportunities until the weather feels winter-like …

514 West 24th Street, ChelseaThrough SaturdayThis large show of young artists from two international port cities was put together by Dan Cameron, curator of both the 2003 Istanbul Biennial and the Prospect.2 Biennial, which opens on Saturday in New Orleans. His mix here seems less concerned with thematic coherence than …

While leading European economies are taking austerity measures to face the debt crisis, Turkey plans to increase its 2012 budget and public employment.Turkey plans to increase the size of its 2012 central government budget by 12.25 percent over the 2011 budget in addition to hiring 90,000 more people for the …

Grand Bazaar, one of the largest and oldest covered bazaars in the world, draws more visitors than any other market in the world, according to the head of the tradesman’s association. Thirty years after its last restoration, the facility is about to receive a new facelift.The Grand Bazaar employs 25,000 …

Turkish Development Minister Cevdet Yılmaz has said the government plans to decrease the maximum hours worked per week by three to four hours in order to boost employment, the Sabah daily reported on Monday.Yılmaz said current legislation on working hours has prevented a decrease in Turkey’s unemployment rate. “There is …

Speaking at the inauguration of a conference titled “Global Health 2011” in British capital of London on Thursday, Akdag said that currently foreign doctors could not work in Turkey. Turkish Health Minister Recep Akdag said Thursday that they were trying to permit foreign doctors work in Turkey.

According to ISKUR’s statistics, 5,526 Turkish workers went to Iraq in the first seven months of 2011 with a 113.6 percent year-on-year rise.Turkey sent the highest number of workers to Iraq in the first seven months of 2011, according to Turkish Employment Agency (ISKUR).According to ISKUR’s statistics, 5,526 Turkish workers …

Employment in the e-commerce sector tripled in the first eight months of the year, according to figures by Kariyer.net, Turkey’s largest human resources platform. Labor demand in the sector has grown 200 percent in the first eight months of 2011, thus providing jobs for some 2,000 people, Kariyer.net’s data showed. …