let me talk to you about istanbul.ibe evocatively how istanbul changes over a0 years. you know, where they dig the well in the first place is a little village outside the city. by the end of the book it is just another suburb is sucked up by the city with industrial zones and high rises and condos and everything else. has the change in istanbul changed the people and the character of the city? good question. ok, first, the change, and this is the success of erdogan, the change in the last 15 years is bigger than in the first 50 years of my life. it is key to his success as much as religion is. but on the other hand, this party is saying they are conservative. and they are not. these are just buildings and mosques, they are not conserving anything. they are destroying everything. i would love to ask them, you are conservatives, it is not only religious buildings that should be preserved, but the old istanbul you were so lovingly talking about. this book goes into that, money and politics combined in construction busines

me talk to you about istanbul.d evocatively how istanbul changes over a0 years. —— you describe. it is just a small village when they are building the well, but by the end it is sucked up by the city with industrial zones and high rises. has the change in istanbul changed the people and the character of the city? 0k, first, the change, and this is the success of erdogan, it has changed more in the last year thanit it has changed more in the last year than it has in the last 15 years of my life. it is key to his success as much as religion is. but on the other hand, this party is saying they are conservative. these are just buildings and mosques. the city turned out huge. they say you should co nse rve turned out huge. they say you should conserve not just turned out huge. they say you should conserve notjust the religious buildings, but the city. this book goes into money and politics combined in construction business and the leading party, the ruling party, people close around this benefiting from this. doesn't fe

in istanbul. is on her way to sell every person and m.p. for the opposition republican people's party the c.h.p. she was a witness said dennis's wedding. and pays once had unlimited access to prisoners but since the attempted coup they have to apply for visits she tells us the wedding was very simple prison all thora has even denied the bride's request for a bouquet. visits then is regularly we have to stop filming before she reaches the prison the camera crew isn't permitted to get any closer. not long before the coup attempt the pro-government channel i had better broadcast a report about syllabary prison it presented a modern facility that complies with e.u. standards. visitors going through this corridor pictures painted by inmates are displayed on the walls to the left and right just a few months after the report was broadcast syllabary became turkey's biggest prison most of the jailed journalists are detained here but none of them have been in solitary confinement longer than dennys you tell. us that you'll look let's say this is the

in istanbul. is on her way to celebrate prison an m.p. for the opposition republican people's party the c.h.p. she was a witness said dennis's wedding. and pays once had unlimited access to prisoners but since the attempted coup they have to apply for visits she tells us the wedding was very simple prison authorities even denied the bride's request for a bouquet. a visit stan is regularly we have to stop filming before she reaches the prison the camera crew isn't permitted to get any closer. not long before the coup attempt the pro-government channel i had better broadcast a report about syllabary prison it presented a modern facility that complies with e.u. standards. visitors going through this corridor pictures painted by inmates are displayed on the walls to the left and right just a few months after the report was broadcast syllabary became turkey's biggest prison most of the jailed journalists are detained here but none of them have been in solitary confinement longer than dennys you tell. us that you'll look let's say this is the c

so when i saw he had been in istanbul and third, just -- the city was stuck in the brain. i wanted to see what he had seen there and why this place had made him feel good and what that had -- the fact i was surprised that istanbul would make him feel that way, what did that mean about me and my own knowledge? what i found was that baldwin was so helpful because he had explained in such extraordinary detail the relationship between black and white americans, and he had -- begun to suggest -- this is actually in interviews with him by turkish journalist -- suggesting that he was seeing how the americans were -- from turkey -- were take that vie violented relationship and casting it on the rest of the world and a relationship in which white people had paw irthey were not aware of did not want to fully grapple with or did not take responsibility for, and he was watching turkey, which was one of america's early satellites after world war ii, and he was feeling nervous. he was actually scared to watch and see all these americans or their soil and using them, i think he called tu

however, back in istanbul, samim? bigzad was not removal. however, back in istanbul, samim? taken off the flight. samim?bigzad was not taken off the flight. the home office said it was simply too late to get him off. but once he was in kabul, the home office did not fly him back. a second high court judge office did not fly him back. a second high courtjudge said the home office was now in contempt of court. on thursday the 14th of september, the home office attempted to overturn a decision of the two high courtjudges, to overturn a decision of the two high court judges, and to overturn a decision of the two high courtjudges, and it was only after a third judge upheld the collie's decision that you home office agreed to return him to london, arriving back on sunday the 17th. a high courtjudge said you we re 17th. a high courtjudge said you were in contempt of court, if i were friends, that would be a serious matter for us. is it friends, that would be a serious matterfor us. is it a friends, that would be a serious matter for us. is it a serious matter for us. is it a serious

here in istanbul is where dan is you just spent two years stationed there is turkey correspondent for the german newspaper. and this is where he fell in love with a turkish television producer maya took the couple married in prison and then april only immediate family members are allowed visitation rights. then his sister will cry is back in istanbul staying with friends she's just returned from a prison visit where i think pane of glass separated her from dennis. it was very hard for me to see him like that. with us but he was very composed and hasn't lost his courage still i could tell it's taking a toll.

becomes a place of transition for her leave the young woman becomes oddly the young man istanbul was also where. her novel the city is very special to her. of a lot between countries and continents istanbul was the first place where i felt at one with myself. it's like your first meets love you don't forget it it's like an intense melancholy novel restless and relentless. rites of endless roaming and the courage to reinvent yourself. romeo or juliet. it all begins with a meeting of writers in an anonymous hotel all quite predictable you think regina even boring. but this man turns it into a literary game of hide and seek. and he is romeo juliet. it's not a rhetorical or in the middle like cheese or meat clouds or wind it's an. existential or existentialist or existence order in the story itself there are only traces left traces of i wouldn't call it love but more a betrayed passion. for art in the light. of betrayed passion with repercussions writer called prince on find strange things happening in his life. suddenly start disappearing from his hotel room was it a former lover if so

finance summitand in a few things like istanbul finance summit and so on to another germany and turkey represented there. but when you see frank to go out, it used to be corporate japan, japan incorporated. it is frankfurt. they love them out, they have a lobby group and their man, they have ministers, it is quite impressive. they have had a very concerted effort to gain the business. because paris was where everybody thought it would go, mentions of dublin and many were wondering who would want to go to frankfurt and we can. many were wondering who would want to go to frankfurt and we canm was pooh—poohed initially when brexit was happening. but they have worked so diligently at this. they have worked at this for the last two years, day and night. a concerted effort we business worked with government working with lobby groups. very impressive. something that i know you are involved in, saudi arabia, the national plan has had to revamp its economy, putting the brakes on a little bit. why you fat? to do realise that some of its ideas were a little bit far? this national transformation p

houthi journalist and from istanbul najib say that around him a former yemeni minister welcome to you all if i could start with mr najib in istanbul as i mentioned there at the outset it's been three years since the whole thieves took over santa can one say at this point that the campaign to evict them has simply failed there is really a lot of you know sense of. nationalism i mean among these i mean militias they just i mean they don't care about their people and they just continuing i mean fighting just for fighting and for just to make their legitimate this is the main goal of really should support these and they did get i would agree of the people there in yemen they know suffering there is a lot of of you know all right all right i understand that mr g. but and my my question is if it's been for three years of fighting in the hope these are still in control of sana'a would you agree with those who say that the military campaign at least has failed to evict them is going nowhere. to to some extent no they're not actually about these them at the military campaign has really failed

the funeral for halla and orouba barakat will be held today in istanbul.he fbi says it will investigate. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> such a tragedy. our thanks to brian ross for that reporting. >>> coming up on "good morning america" espn's college game day goes where it has never gone before. they're in times square. stick around. we're right back. it's your morning savior.ffee. that's why we're introducing a new line of café-quality espresso drinks from mccafe... like the iced caramel macchiato. so now you can face those morning people. get any small for just $2. ♪ ♪ (cover of chainsmokers 'don't l♪ me down') ♪ ♪ the issues we care about can weigh on us. so lift the weight of caring, by doing. visit state farm's neighborhoodofgood.com to volunteer in your community. >>> this is something that you've never seen before. espn's college game day bringing the entire crew to the big apple for the first time right there, ringing the opening bell at the new york stock exchange. and game day reporter maria taylor joins us from just outside our studios in t

meets with his daughter's lawyer mashallah tolu his trial is set to begin on october eleventh in istanbul. lawyer is worried because she says that right now judges are ruling largely in favor of the policies of turkish president recip tayyip and a one she can only shake her head at the charges against her client in twenty fifteen mashallah told who attended the funerals of two left wing extremists belonging to the outlawed marxist leninist communist party who were killed by police in istanbul. the same year she also attended a memorial service for a member of the kurdish militia y p g who died in the fight against i.a.s. in syria. the events were an expression of freedom of speech they took place under the supervision of turkish security authorities and ended peacefully. and now they are being denounced as terrorist propaganda and attending them implies you belong to a terrorist organization. it's time for sam can to go back to his mother. who hopes his daughter will be released in october after her trial but he has his doubts about the justice system is sort of the lies of a gives they'r

follows for inspiring people in istanbul as they seek to prove that seeing isn't everything at this time. hello there i'm julie macdonald in london the top stories on al-jazeera spain's government is cracking down on the banned secession vote in its catalonia region on sunday describing it as a mockery of democracy well independence supporters insist the referendum will go.

holly williams is in istanbul tonight. holly?reporter: for over two decades now, a determined group ave been arabian women have been protesting against the ban on them driving by illegally taking to the road. some of them posting videos of that online. semet with some of those women a saudi arabia in 2014, and they told me that the freedom to drive was symbolic in a country where they have very few rights. arudi arabia is, of course, an ultraconservative state. one muslim cleric claimed that iniving would harm women's reproductive organs. but things are very gradually changing for saudi women. they're now permitting to vote in local elections. , ey're allowed to play sport at school, and more and more of them are going to university. anthony. >> mason: holly williams in istanbul tonight. thanks, holly. and coming up next on the "cbs evening news," the bidding war for amazon. i didn't know where i was from ethnically. so we sent that sample off to ancestry. my ancestry dna results are that i am 26% nigerian. i am just trying to le

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holly williams is in istanbul tonight. holly. >> reporter: for over two decades a determined group of saudi arabian women have been protesting against the ban on them driving by illegally taking to the road. some of them posting videos of that online. i met with some of those women in saudi arabia in 2014, and they told me that the freedom to drive was symbolic in a country where they have very few rights. saudi arabia is of course an ultraconservative state, one muslim cleric claimed that driving would harm women's reproductive organs. things are gradually changing for saudi women. they're now permit to vote in local elections allowed to play sport at school, and more and more of them are going to university. anthony. >> holly williams in istanbul tonight. thank you, holly. coming up next, the bidding war for amazon. ok, let's try this. it says you apply the blue one to me. here? no. have a little fun together, or a lot. k-y yours and mine. two sensations that work together, so you can play together. introducing degree ul

the contributing author of "the new york times" magazine currently living in istanbul. in trying to describe this book to a number of people, i find myself stumbling. i think it is a book about you going abroad as an american in 2007 warning about the muslim world into turkey an and turkeys accounting region. it's a book about that region but also a book that is relevant today as we have seen with charlottesville it is very much a book about what is america and what does it mean to be an american. can you talk about how you would describe this book >> it seems there are a number of books that comes from the genesis of the book. during the first year or two years i was talking to friends of mine particularly who lived in london, one was british and one was indian and i was telling them about everything i was learning in turkey and after about a year or so i said i'm going to write a book about turkey and they said we think your book is about america because what they had been hearing more powerfully maybe then my observations about turkey were a hell of a turkish viewed

meets with his daughter's lawyer mashallah tolu his trial is set to begin on october eleventh in istanbul. lawyer is worried because she says that right now judges are ruling largely in favor of the policies of turkish president recip tayyip and a one she can only shake her head at the charges against her client in twenty fifteen mashallah told who attended the funerals of two left wing extremists belonging to the outlawed marxist leninist communist party who were killed by police in istanbul the same year she also attended a memorial service for a member of the kurdish militia y p g who died in the fight against i.a.s. in syria. the events were an expression of freedom of speech they took place under the supervision of turkish security authorities and ended peacefully. and now they are being denounced as terrorist propaganda and attending them implies you belong to a terrorist organization. it's time for sam can to go back to his mother. who hopes his daughter will be released in october after her trial but he has his doubts about the justice system is sort of a bit less of a give they'r

this as you get many of them cannot come but end of the right to our correspondent he is in central istanbul and we have our political correspondent here in the studio more on those stories in just a minute but first this news just in it's all about the perspective closer d.w. news yes. she's long been a symbol of hope in syria i try to help people. a small outside does she stand for change for the false facade of her husband's rule of terror. she believes in my projection that that they are saving syria must masada the beautiful face of the dictatorship starting october first on d w. the german turkish journalist benazir cho has been behind bars in turkey since february fourteenth turkish president. accuses him of spreading terror propaganda.

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follows for inspiring people in istanbul as they seek to prove that seeing isn't everything at this time. until recently there was an infernal racket all around this lake the clank of. a cat says punctuated by explosions. but the noise stopped. it's an unwelcome silence for lunch. he and thousands of other golden jade hunters had to lay down their tools when the off storage is closed down the mines. lawgiver gets by on odd jobs until he can find a buyer for the gens he hopes will change his destiny. sometimes in high some of the nickel. in it or. so i took off but it sort of. could. as he waits for a buyer for his precious jade he makes extra money renting his small truck to nomadic herdsman whose seasonal migration takes place several times a year. you to meet the nomads lug for usually drives across the lake but this year the thought has come several months early. you want to build out these are the awesome myself i can walk about butte all myself and all but. all we are doing in the deaf and often. the early mild spell has affected the thick eighty centimeter layer of ice which could

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if not he will close the airspace and he will close the borders and cut istanbul be isolated so this is the last position i go i say that this referendum and i was opposed not only within iraq but also internationally of america and turkey amongst the critics given the opposition internally and externally what was that what is the kurdish leadership hoping to achieve with this vote. well first of all about money wants to have an independent state he wants to lead could is done to independents he wants to have a state the problem is that he is not restricted only to the four kurdish provinces the money out of you know the hoop and halacha with which have already already autonomy but he wants to integrate as well as so-called disputed areas like can't cook and this is the big problem because kirkuk was under the control of baghdad before isis came in summer two thousand and fourteen and now arab media wants to have the control over kirkuk and this is the big dispute about that and we'll bring its best friend said in kirkuk thank you saudi arabia arabia says it's going to allow women to

he borrowed money and flew to istanbul in turkey.itory. by now, he had received a tip—off by text message, from a relative of his wife, telling him where his children were. he found them. a sharia court even granted him custody, but leaving the caliphate is forbidden. to get home, they would have to escape. like these people, fleeing syria by night. artur headed for the turkish border. translation: i took my little girl in my arms and told my other daughter, run. as we ran, i tore my trousers on some barbed wire. my youngest began crying. the turkish border guards were just 50 metres away and they started shooting. we dived into an irrigation ditch and hid there for 20 minutes. bullets were flying overhead. we got away from there through long grass. that is when i realised that we were safe. i could see the moon and the cornfields. it felt like paradise. in istanbul, the russian consulate issued the family with travel documents. father and daughters flew home, but what of his wife? translation: i don't know how she is. we're not in t

she's a contributing writer at the new york times magazine and is currently living in istanbul. in trying to describe this book to other people i tried by myself stumbling because i think it's many books in one. it's a book about you going abroad and american in 2007 learning about the muslim world in turkey and the surrounding region. it's a book about that region, but also a book that's relevant today as we see things over the summer with charlottesville and things in our own country with the election of donald trump. it's a book about what is america and what is it mean to be an american. can you talk about how would you describe what this book is? >> guest: the fact that it seems like there's many books in one is the genesis of the book. i moved to turkey with the idea that i was going to become a real foreign correspondent is going to read about foreign countries. i had never been anywhere and i had never been to turkey. i had lived in london for maybe three months. was a very traumatic experience for his learning new things. during the first year to i was talking to friend

this is you get me it's come to life somebody but the right to our correspondent he is in central istanbul and we have our work force here in the studio more on those stories in just a minute but first this news just in it's all about perspective. w. c s i. hello and welcome to this new edition off topic sport the music magazine from germany i am living and this is what we have for you today. this is rock out in new york. by a bookie and burning. in tangerine dream celebrate a milestone. what do the scorpions and ramstein have in common both bands from germany and both have played new york city's famous madison square garden this year the scorpions return to the stage there for the first time in thirty three years and public sport was there to witness it. thank you. it's a momentous gig for the scorpions for the first time in thirty three years the german hard rock on his back performing at madison square garden. new york's madison square garden is the most famous venue in the world we usually play arenas this big but this is really special you had to. go there you know it's the morning be

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league central well the first finalist has been decided at the european basketball championships in istanbul and it was a surprise result savina shocking defending champions spain in their euro basket semifinal they did it in dominant fashion winning ninety two to seventy two the second semifinal is between serbia and russia that's coming up later on friday. a japanese american surfer is continuing to make waves on the global circuit nineteen year old. beat three time world champion mick fanning on thursday to advance to the course fun as the hurley pro in california she was the youngest rookie on the wild surf league last season is expected to be one of the faces of the sport when it makes its olympic debut in tokyo in twenty twenty and that is all you sport for now we'll have more support for you a little bit later on and that does it for this al-jazeera news hour but i'll be back in just a couple of minutes with another news bulletin thank you very much for watching. let's talk about now. right now. right now it's happening so fast. you can barely keep up with it. right now we've got clou

now we head to istanbul for a spot of ebru painting — a turkish art form that involves marbling or paintings been around for centuries, growing in popularity under the ottomans and then spreading to europe. we sent henry golding to give it a go. we're going to make a daisy today. 0k. first we have to choose colours. which colours do you want to use? i like the blues. maybe this one. daisies are usually white with yellow. there's a white here. you start with the base? yes. how do you do it, what's the technique? we first mix it. and we start sprinkling. 0k. it's going everywhere. i'm not sure it's as good as yours. it's great. is it ok? yes. the reason why the paint sticks on the top here is because the canvas we're using is made of water and starch. it's a lot thicker than the paint. this is almost like a chopstick. yes. we are using them to make these shapes. now we're making the daisy. first we're going to start with the leaves. this takes a little more control that the flicking. like a teardrop. we're going to do this to the leaves. more of a blob than a flower. a little bit of colour. s

follows for inspiring people in istanbul as they seek to prove that seeing isn't everything at this time. i appeal to the leaders of myanmar including military leaders to condemn. racial it's of the violence.

condom the referendum show for september the twenty fifth turkish nationalists have marched through istanbul to protest against the vote president richard tiber the one who has urged the kurdish leadership to cancel it calling it a matter of national security united nations secretary general antonio terrorists has warned that a referendum would detract from the need to defeat islamic state and to reconstruct regained territory is a harder abdel-hamid is in a bill the capital of the kurdish region in northern iraq. this might be the first explicit statement coming out of iran but certainly there have been several warnings by the iranian government over the past few months relations actually between tehran and the kurdish authorities have been strained for quite a while now at the bottom line iran sees this as a threat to its own national security in the sense that iran has a sizable kurdish population several iranian kurdish opposition parties are based here in northern iraq and iran fears that this referendum even though nonbinding if it goes ahead might bull the aspirations of the iranian k

here in istanbul dr peter star studies the work of the scholars of the golden age has brought with him and still to show me how the early chemists used it for distillation. this one is made of copper and there were others made of of glass or a world glossy yes yes the important thing about a still is that there's a hot and cold and so the hotter and is where the steam is produced it condenses. and is received into the receiver here. what we would need would be water. first of all usually distilled water you could use rain water the. and then we'll need whatever we're going to distill for example if you want perfect roses with rose petals up i'm sure the restaurant of mind. and so the water with the rose petals will be heated up here as the steam given off it takes the scent of the rose as it reaches the bit where it condenses back to a liquid and drips down here into this other container who are the people who are carrying out these things the chemistry i think there are two main names which stand out above all the others above all. but also. jobber but high on a particular is very ear