The Turkish Daily News is a Turkish daily. It was established in March 1961 and is considered Turkey's first and largest English-language daily.It is part of the Doğan Media Group (DYH), owner of Hürriyet, and Milliyet - two mass circulation Turkish newspapers. DYH also owns many other interests in the media sector.The current editor in chief is David Judson, who also holds that position at Turkish business daily Referans.Recent competition to the TDN has arrived in the form of Today's Zaman, an offshoot of mildly Islamist Turkish daily Zaman.

A property company has announced plans for a major investment into Turkey's blossoming real estate sector. The Goodman group has confirmed it will be directing €300 million (£213 million) into projects involving the logistics market within real estate, reports the Turkish Daily News. A massive 140,000 square feet logistics centre will be.

A majority of Turkish citizens of Kurdish origins will prefer living in Turkey even if a Kurdish state is founded in northern Iraq in the future, a survey has revealed.www.cut-consumption.org

What would you prefer? Having a weakened but determined enemy or a prosperous friend and strong ally? If you are a win-win oriented person, you would naturally opt for the later. However, Turkey is sometimes unreasonable and, against all odds, continues to have some peculiar policies.

A traditional wake up service, special to RamadanThis is an interesting story on some of the local traditions in Turkey during the blessed month of Ramadan:ISTANBUL, (Turkisn Daily News):Imagine being awakened in your warm bed at 4:00 a.m. to the incessant pounding of drums and knowing that you will be hearing this for an entire month.

Citing "one more good reason to appreciate initiatives like the Alliance of Civilizations (AoC), launched by the Secretary General of the united Nations in 2005 and co-sponsored by the Prime Ministers of Turkey and Spain", Sylvia Tiryaki suggests a way to "balance the overal situation."