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...
In between musings about the economy and his republic’s famous honey, Rustem Khamitov admits he is the last President of Bashkortostan. In case your knowledge of ‘stan’ geography is a bit rusty, Bashkortostan is a semi-autonomous republic...
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...
Horses and powerful rulers have an odd relationship. Roman Emperor Caligula named his horse a consul. More recently, the horse of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov almost killed him. Wearing traditional...
When Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., chastised Jay-Z and Beyonce in a TV interview for their recent trip to Cuba, he especially criticized Jay-Z for his adoration of Che Guevara. “I...
