Columnist Ayse Ozgun comments about Istanbul’s archeological treaures and commends ‘the Sultanahmet Rotary Club for deciding to undertake such a challenging and demanding job as re-establishing the old Hippodrome of the Sultanahmet area to its old glory….’

In the mean time, in these days there might be baklava related protests because of a EU decision. I guess this might be the sweetest kind of protests to take place and I assume the baklava makers will provide free baklavas?