South of Istanbul, in an island prison, sits Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). For the last 14 years, following his 1999 capture by Turkish...
Two weeks ago, several dozen environmentalists gathered in Istanbul’s tree-lined Taksim Square Gezi Park, staging a peaceful sit-in to oppose government plans to replace the beloved park with a shopping...
Rejecting claims about his dictatorial proclivities, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday did what he does best, by calling those protesting his government an extremist fringe. Naturally, opposition...
At a joint press conference at the White House on Thursday, President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told us what we already knew: They agree that...
Fazil Say, the internationally-acclaimed Turkish pianist, bumped up against the limits of free speech in the Middle Eastern country that likes to think it has married Muslim religious tenets with...
Children are the future of a society, but in Turkey, that future sits in a jail cell. At least that’s what happens to kids attempting to exercise the basic right...
