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Ramazan (written in Turkish with a “z” not a “d”), begins today. It is a one month period of fasting and reflection. You’ll hear many different interpretations of this, the 9th month on the lunar...

A friend of mine, we shall call “Jaffer” has located the origins of the mysterious and magic Golden Monkey Wine. The Golden Monkey Wine appeared in my fridge a few weeks back and we threw a party to celebrate its...

Turkey beat Lithuania today in the FIBA World Basketball Championships in Japan (there was a 4.8 earthquake during the game). They are playing for 5th-6th place – hey not bad ok for a team that wasn’t suppose to...

Team USA beat Germany in the FIBA basketball championship over in Japan, 85-65. Now they face Greece in the quarterfinal, and hopefully win by 40+ points.

The World Basketball Championships are still going on in Japan. A quick update – Turkey is playing Argentina tomorrow at 3:30am (EST). If you’re in Lugano, that’s 9:30am – if you like basketball and live...

I don’t know if you peoples have been following the Jill Carroll story. She was that journalist kidanpped in Iraq a few months back, held for 80+ days and later released. She worked for the Christian Science Monitor, and...