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The aftermath of a fire in Antalya, Turkey Erdogan’s AKP: We Didn’t Start the Fire
Why Turkey’s ruling party views environmentalism as a threat.
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A man stands in a doorway Taliban Takeover Seen as a Boon for Human Smugglers
Along one part of the Turkish border, hundreds of new Afghan migrants show up every day.
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A construction site for a Turkish prison complex ‘We Fell Off the Face of the Earth’
Opposition politicians are disappearing into Turkey’s massive new prison system.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to deliver a speech on June 24, 2018 in Istanbul. Cracks Are Growing in the Erdogan Regime
Turkey is more politically unstable today than at any other point in recent years.
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A poster of Mustafa Hayrullahoglu, late member of the Socialist Workers Party of Turkey, in the Bakirkoy district of Istanbul as part of a May Day rally on May 1, 2017. Turkey’s Left-Wing ‘Squad’ Is Coming for Erdogan
A new party is betting that unabashed leftist politics is the only way to defeat the president.
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to the press at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 1. Russia Thwarts U.S. Bid to Expand Syrian Aid Corridors
But the rival powers strike a compromise that prevents catastrophic shut-off of lifesaving aid to Syrians.
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People protest outside of the Turkish consulate on the anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Beverly Hills, California, on April 24. Turkey Will Never Recognize the Armenian Genocide
It’s time for Yerevan to shift gears and work toward rapprochement with Ankara.
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U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak. Biden to Prod Putin on Syria Relief
Russia’s blockage of aid deliveries threatens to make Syria’s humanitarian disaster the worst it’s been since the war began.
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Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gestures at a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at Yildiz Palace in Istanbul on Jan. 23, 2016. In Meeting With Erdogan, Biden Holds the Power
And he should use it to push for these three changes.
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Cypriot Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Christodoulides, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, and Emirati Presidential Advisor Anwar Gargash hold a press conference after meeting in the western Cypriot city of Paphos, on April 16. Greece Is Making a Comeback in the Eastern Mediterranean
Sensing the tide turning against Turkey, Athens is reviving itself as a diplomatic force.
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Sahak Tavukcu mops the floor of the Surp Hresdagabet Church in Istanbul. For Turkey’s Armenians, Biden’s Genocide Declaration Makes Little Difference
A century after the mass killings, Armenians in Turkey are still outcasts.
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Residents of Istanbul protest the Kanal Istanbul project in Istanbul on Jan. 12, 2020. Erdogan Is Digging a Hole He Can’t Escape
Plans to build a new channel through Istanbul will come with serious domestic, international, and environmental costs.
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People hold photographs of Armenian writers and artists who were among the Armenian intellectuals arrested for deportation by Ottoman forces in 1915 at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia, on April 24, 2015. Stop Giving Erdogan a Veto Over U.S. Recognition of the Armenian Genocide
Biden can do the right thing because Turkey has lost strategic significance.
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Australian infantrymen sit on a transport as they head toward the beach at Gallipoli, Turkey, in 1915. The Real Reason Britain Gambled at Gallipoli
A new book argues that Churchill’s famous folly was ultimately about food, fear, and free trade.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan salutes his supporters during a rally at Istanbul's Yenikapi fairground to show solidarity with Palestinians after Israels aggression against Palestinian civilians on the Gaza border in Istanbul on May 18, 2018. How Erdogan Got His Groove Back
It’s been a difficult and dizzying few months for Turkey—which is just the way the president likes it.
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