Ahu Aysal pictured with Paris Hilton in March 2008 (www.ahuaysalkerimoglu.com)
Turkey
Is This Woman Set To Be The First Turk In Space?
Ahu Aysel, owner of a hotel chain and ex-wife of the owner of Istanbul's most popular soccer team, has paid big bucks for the chance at becoming the first Turkish citizen to go into space. She must be chosen in a lottery to board a commercial fli
Ahu Aysal pictured with Paris Hilton in March 2008 (www.ahuaysalkerimoglu.com)
April 23, 2012
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ISTANBUL - A 54 year-old hotel chain owner could become the first Turk to travel into space.
Ahu Aysal - who heads the Unit Tourism and Investment Co. hotel chain, and is the ex-wife of Ünal Aysal, the CEO of Galatasaray soccer team - is aiming to become the first Turk to travel to space. Aysal paid a $95,000 registration fee to a Dutch firm that plans to begin commercial flights into space in 2014. Aysel joins 200 other applicants, who will enter a lottery to determine who gets to make the trip first.
If all goes as planned, Aysal will have the opportunity to experience four minutes in an environment without gravity on a trip that should last about one hour.
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November 30, 2023
Updated Nov. 30, 2023 at 12:10 p.m.
The sometimes violent protests against the 1999 World Trade Organization summit in Seattle is considered the birth of the No Global movement, which sought to bring attention to the harmful effects of globalization, especially on the most vulnerable.
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What was the Battle for Seattle?
The 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, sometimes dubbed the Battle For Seattle, was a series of protests surrounding the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999. The Conference was set to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations, but the clashes between demonstrators and the police and widespread destruction of private property soon took over everyone's attention.
What happened in the aftermath of the WTO protests
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