Turkey’s major cities are quiet today after a dramatic coup attempt by a faction within the Turkish military. There is still so much we do not yet know and may not know for quite some time. Had the ...

The history of the Turkish republic that celebrated its ninetieth anniversary on October 29 has been marked by societal discord and political convulsions: three military coups, violence between the ...

epa01851242 Protestors hold banners prior the Ergenekon trial in front of heavily guarded Silivri prison, Turkey on 07 September 2009. 86 people including retired army officers, the head of a small ...

On the morning of February 22, over 500 Turkish soldiers drove into Syria to extract the remains of Suleyman Shah—grandfather of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire—from a small mausoleum on ...

There was a time when the Turkish government famously insisted that Kurds simply didn’t exist; they, like everyone else in Turkey, were Turks. Until Turkish society abandoned this nationalist myth and ...

A woman in Bursa, Turkey, looks out Thursday from a balcony of a building adorned with posters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who faces opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday’s ...

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