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Water crisis in the Gulf needs radical solutions

Edit IRINnews 22 Jul 2016
Despite their location smack in the middle of the desert, the Gulf countries have water parks, public fountains, and bright green lawns ... The problem ... The process also leaves behind a highly saline solution that ends up in the sea ... Columbia University anthropologist Gokce Gunel is concerned about “peak salt”, the possibility that the Gulf will become so salty that desalinating its waters will become unaffordable ... The technical option....

Hitachi Acquires stake of BCS Technology (Baker & McKenzie LLP)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jul 2016
(Source. Baker & McKenzie LLP) ... We have experienced a stream of mandates from Japanese companies and we expect more to follow.' ... The deal was led by partner Duygu Turgut and senior associate Sertaç Kökenek and supported by visiting senior associate Seiji Tomimoto and associates Orcun Solak, Güven Maviş, Gokce Serez, Pınar Erdem and Gokhan Akcaalan ... (noodl. 34518367) ....

Putting water use in check

Edit The National 12 May 2016
Water consumption continues to be an issue in this country despite recent efforts to moderate its use. According to a new study by Prof Gokce Gunel at Columbia University, the average water use per capita in the emirate of Abu Dhabi is estimated at about 550 litres a day, almost three times the global average of 200 litres ... Economic diversification has undoubtedly contributed to that large per capita consumption ... ....

Turkey central bank chief makes 'cautious' debut with rate cut

Edit The Times of India 20 Apr 2016
Ankara, April 20, 2016 (AFP) -. Turkey's central bank Wednesday cut a key interest rate at the debut meeting of its new governor in a move aimed at reassuring skittish investors but that disappointed the government ... It left the one-week repurchasing rate unchanged at 7.5 percent, as also widely forecast ... Gokce Celik, economist at Finansbank, said markets welcomed the fact the size of the cut had been "measured" ... - 'More dovish' - ... ....

Rockets strike Turkish school near Syria border

Edit Al Jazeera 18 Jan 2016
Rockets have struck a school in Kilis, a town in southern Turkey near the Syrian border, killing at least one female staff member and injuring several others, including a student. Police were investigating Monday's explosion, which government officials blamed on rockets fired from across the border in Syria ... Two other people have been injured ... Turkish authoritied identified the school as Eyup Gokce Imam Middle School ... Source. Al Jazeera. ....

Turkish school hit by rockets near Syrian border

Edit Al Jazeera 18 Jan 2016
Rockets have struck a school in Kilis, a town in southern Turkey near the Syrian border, killing at least one female staff member and injuring several others, including a student. Police are investigating the incident, which Turkish officials say was fired from across the border in Syria ... Two other people have been injured ... Turkish authoritied identified the school as Eyup Gokce Imam Middle School ... Source. Al Jazeera. ....

DOE-FIU partnership renewed, new class inducted (FIU - Florida International University)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Dec 2015
Sarah Bird - undergraduate, Environmental Engineering Silvina Di Pietro - graduate (Ph.D.), Chemistry Alejandro Garcia, graduate (M.S.), Geoscience Erim Gokce - undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering Orlando Gomez, graduate (Ph.D.), Physics Alejandro Hernandez, undergraduate, Chemistry Iti Mehta - undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering Awmna Rana, ......

Russian Sanctions Will Not Bring Turkey to Its Knees - Turkish Ambassador to Bulgaria

Edit Topix 06 Dec 2015
According to Turkish ambassador to Bulgaria His Excellency Suleyman Gokce , the sanctions imposed by Moscow in response to the downing of the Russian Su-24 bomber by two Turkish F-16 fighter jets on the Turkish-Syrian border on November 24, will not bring Ankara to its knees. Gokce noted that Turkey is a great country, being the sixteenth largest economy in the world and part of G-20 and having ties with each part of the globe ... ....

Three jailed for murdering young woman in case that shocked Turkey

Edit Yahoo Daily News 03 Dec 2015
ANKARA (Reuters) - Three men convicted of murdering a young Turkish woman after she resisted an attempt to rape her on a minibus were sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday, with no chance of parole ... The court handed aggravated life sentences to 26-year-old Ahmet Suphi Altindoken, his father Necmettin Altindoken and friend Fatih Gokce....

Three jailed in Turkey for female student's murder

Edit Yahoo Daily News 03 Dec 2015
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced three men to life in prison for the murder and attempted rape of a 20-year-old female student that unleashed a wave of anger over violence against women ... His two accomplices -- his father Necmettin Altindoken and a friend Fatih Gokce -- received the same terms, it added ... dg/sjw/txw ....

In A Turkish Village, A Conversation With Whistles, Not Words

Edit National Public Radio 26 Sep 2015
7.39 AM ET. Peter Kenyon ... ET. i ... Peter Kenyon/NPR hide caption. itoggle caption Peter Kenyon/NPR ... Peter Kenyon/NPR ... "The one thing you don't whistle about is your love talk," she says with a laugh, "because you'll get caught!" Gokce Saracoglu/for NPR hide caption. itoggle caption Gokce Saracoglu/for NPR ... "The one thing you don't whistle about is your love talk," she says with a laugh, "because you'll get caught!" Gokce Saracoglu/for NPR ... More....

Saturday's Show

Edit National Public Radio 26 Sep 2015
Saturday's Show. Shawn Colvin's new covers collection is called Uncovered. Alexandra Valenti/Courtesy of the artist hide caption. itoggle caption Alexandra Valenti/Courtesy of the artist. Music Interviews. 'We All Have Something To Say' ... Television ... 4 ... 6 ... 9 ... "The one thing you don't whistle about is your love talk," she says with a laugh, "because you'll get caught!" Gokce Saracoglu/for NPR hide caption. itoggle caption Gokce Saracoglu/for NPR....

Why use a 2D cursor in a 3D world? Computer cursors are going 3D! (Université ...

Edit Public Technologies 10 Aug 2015
(Source. Université de Montréal). Photo . Hybridlab, Université de Montréal. Researchers at the University of Montreal have developed techniques that enable computer cursors to interact in 3D in single or multiuser, local or remote collaboration scenarios ... "The cursor becomes a drawing and controlling plane" ... Several patents are pending ... Multimedia resources ... Abstract. Tomas Dorta, Gokce Kinayoglu, and Michael Hoffmann. 2015 ... Notes....
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