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Donations to nonprofit journalism groups like the Marshall Project have been increasing. The organization’s editor in chief, Bill Keller, left, and Neil Barsky, the founder and chairman, in the Marshall Project offices. Credit Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Nonprofit Journalism Groups Are Gearing Up With Flood of Donations

by Nicholas Birch | Dec 26, 2016 | Media

Washington — It did not take long after election night for the donations to start pouring in to America’s nonprofit journalism organizations. Almost a month later, the money keeps coming, $10 and $20 and sometimes hundreds of dollars or more from small donors all over...

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Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Ekmeledin İhsanoğlu. (FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/GettyImages)

Turkey’s Game-Changer?

by Nicholas Birch | Jun 24, 2014 | Majalla Blogs

There have been a lot of positive reactions to the news that Turkey’s secular opposition have joined with nationalists to back a pious former Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference as its candidate for the country’s first-ever direct...

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Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a AK Party (AKP) meeting in Ankara, June 14, 2013. Source: Reuters/Dado Ruvic

Erdoğan, the Lone Wolf

by Nicholas Birch | Dec 24, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

The fall from grace of Turkey’s much-fabled foreign policy of “zero problems with neighbors” has been dramatic. Not long ago, the world was praising Prime Minister Erdoğan for expanding links with Arab countries, lifting visa restrictions, and even brokering talks...

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Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) MP Nurcan Dalbudak (C) is greeted wearing a headscarf as she attends a general assembly at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara on October 31, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ADEM ALTAN

The Kemalists’ Veil of Tolerance

by Nicholas Birch | Nov 6, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

There’s a Turkish joke about a man who is taken on a tour of hell. It’s a dark plain filled with huge vats of boiling liquid in which the damned are slowly deep-frying. Devils stand around the vats, and whenever a sinner pokes his head up out of the liquid, they push...

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Armagan Yilmaz, center, holds his infant daughter as he speaks to the crowd of approximately 130 people assembled in Saylorsburg, Pa. on Saturday, July 13, 2013 to demonstrate against Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, who lives in town. (AP Photo/Pocono Record, Keith R. Stevenson)

The Best of Enemies

by Nicholas Birch | Sep 6, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

In politics, the pursuit of power always wins out over ideological affinity. That seems to be the moral behind the latest round of tensions between Turkey’s two most powerful Islamic groups—the government itself and the Fethullah Gülen Movement—tensions that...