Founded in 1985, "The Morning" is one of Turkey's main daily tabloids, and the most widely sold one in Istanbul. It belongs to the media division of the highly-influential Ciner group, which also controls two television stations, three daily newspapers and around thirty magazines. The site, which is a full fledged news media, offers some of the newspaper's content as well as a simplified English version.
One of the most consistently informative and entertaining blogs about the European Union has to be Jean Quatremer’s Coulisses de Bruxelles.
When presseurop.eu was launched in May last year, one of its guiding mottos was Umberto Eco’s “The future of Europe is translation.” But sometimes I’m inclined to think that the future of Europe is lost in translation. I recently checked a statement by Angela Merkel concerning the CD-rom nabbed by HSBC supergrass Hervé Falciani containing data on Germans who have siphoned off their money to Switzerland in order to avoid taxes back home.