Ozgur Ozkan is a visiting assistant professor of politics at Bates College and a faculty affiliate at Harvard Kennedy School. Formerly, he was a research fellow at the Middle East Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a visiting scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
A few protesters are seen at night as they wave flags and hands in a public square strewn with litter and obscured by a haze of smoke. One red and white Turkish flag billows through the smoke. On the far side of the clear area is a line of dozens of riot police officers in helmets and holding clear riot shields.
A medic prepares a drip aboard the Turkish warship TCG Sancaktar, which is ready to receive and treat victims of the recent earthquake, in the port of Iskenderun, Turkey, on Feb. 19.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan walks down the stairs in between soldiers, wearing traditional army uniforms from the Ottoman Empire, as he arrives for a welcoming ceremony for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace in Ankara, January 12, 2015.
