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Turkish airstrikes in Syria have escalated over the last month as the world concentrates on a different crisis.

Turkey’s population is exhausted, and the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan will only make anti-refugee sentiment more central to the country’s politics.

Why Turkey’s ruling party views environmentalism as a threat.

The European Union’s next candidates for accession have realized the process is leading nowhere—and are acting accordingly.

Along one part of the Turkish border, hundreds of new Afghan migrants show up every day.

Opposition politicians are disappearing into Turkey’s massive new prison system.

As an artist, he dreamed of the West. As Albanian prime minister, the West is letting him down.

Turkey is more politically unstable today than at any other point in recent years.

Belgrade is vital to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative. But as China takes over old industrial sites, Serbian citizens are suffering the environmental consequences.

The terrible truth is decades after the Bosnian War, the world has become too accustomed to war crimes.

A new party is betting that unabashed leftist politics is the only way to defeat the president.

But the rival powers strike a compromise that prevents catastrophic shut-off of lifesaving aid to Syrians.

It’s time for Yerevan to shift gears and work toward rapprochement with Ankara.

Russia’s blockage of aid deliveries threatens to make Syria’s humanitarian disaster the worst it’s been since the war began.

And he should use it to push for these three changes.

EU and U.S. neglect is allowing Russia to fan ethnic flames.

Sensing the tide turning against Turkey, Athens is reviving itself as a diplomatic force.

A century after the mass killings, Armenians in Turkey are still outcasts.