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In this photo provided by the Turkish Prime Minister’s Office, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan salutes supporters from the balcony of his ruling party headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, early Monday, on March 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Kayhan Ozer, Turkish Prime Minister’s Press Office)


Triumphant and Unrepentant

Triumphant and Unrepentant

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has incurred every assault imaginable in the lead up to Sunday’s municipal elections. Now those who voted against the AKP in Sunday’s polls are in shock, wondering what it will take to harm the ruling party after it...
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Riot police stand guard in front of the Russian Consulate as Circassians living in Turkey gather to protest against Sochi Winter Olympics in Istanbul (REUTERS/Osman Orsal )


Sochi’s Buried Tragedy

Sochi’s Buried Tragedy

Last month I was one of three torchbearers from Turkey to participate in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics relay. While I happily carried the Olympic flame for 300 meters in Nizhny Novgorod—Russia’s fifth largest city—the honor was overshadowed somewhat by all the...
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan walks with his walks with his Iraqi counterpart Nuri Al-Maliki in a ceremony in Ankara, Turkey, on August 7, 2007. (AFP/Getty Images)


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Fethullah Gulen is pictured at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, in this December 28, 2004 file photo. Reuters


Gülenists’ Changing Fortunes

Gülenists’ Changing Fortunes

At the NATO headquarters in Brussels, a Turkish diplomat greeted a passing delegation in his mother tongue. “They are Albanian diplomats. They are the F type,” he told me. By “F type,” he meant that they were graduates of the schools in Albania run by followers of...
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Turkish and European Union flags fly together as people walk under them at Taksim Square on May 24, 2013, in Istanbul. AFP Photo/Bulent Kilic


Erdoğan’s Deep Pockets

Erdoğan’s Deep Pockets

Turkey recently announced its first contact with pygmies in a headline carried by the semi-official Anatolia News Agency. Some 3,000 pygmies in central Africa’s Democratic Republic of the Congo will be attending literacy courses and vocational training provided by the...