Turkey

Istanbul Ataturk Airport Attack: Deaths Rise to 41, with 239 Hurt

Istanbul Ataturk Airport Attack: Deaths Rise to 41, with 239 Hurt BBC News  29 June 2016 Image: BBC News  The death toll in a gun and suicide bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport has risen to 41, 13 of them foreign nationals, with 239 injured, the Turkish city's governor says. Three attackers arrived in a taxi and began firing at the terminal entrance late on Tuesday. They blew themselves up after police fired back. PM Binali Yildirim said

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Pope Prays at Armenia Memorial after Denouncing Genocide

Pope Prays at Armenia Memorial after Denouncing Genocide Tom Kington, Los Angeles Times  25 June 2016  Image: Pope Francis leads an open-air Mass in Vartanants Square in Gyumri, Armenia's second-largest city. (Osservatore Romano) On Saturday, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli called the pope’s speech a "great disgrace" that contained  "all the reflexes of the Crusades.” "It is not compatible with reality," he said. "We all know

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Israel and Turkey Announce Agreement to Restore Diplomatic Ties

Israel and Turkey Announce Agreement to Restore Diplomatic Ties J. Dana Stuster, Foreign Policy  27 June 2016  Image: Israel and Turkey Announce Agreement to Restore Diplomatic Ties, Foreign Policy  Israel and Turkey formally announced an agreement to normalize diplomatic relations today. The agreement, which was finalized yesterday and has been hinted at by diplomats for weeks, will renew official diplomatic ties, including the exchange of

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Yes, It’s Genocide

Yes, It’s Genocide The Editorial Board, The New York Times 3 June 2016 Image: Demonstrators with Turkish and German flags outside the Parliament building in Berlin on Wednesday.CreditJohn Macdougall/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images   In what has become an almost annual exercise, Turkey has thrown a fit because someone has spoken the truth about its dark past. This time, it has pulled its ambassador from Berlin and threatened dire consequences

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Turkey recalls Germany ambassador after genocide vote

Turkey Recalls Germany Ambassador After Genocide Vote Geir Moulson and Suzan Fraser, The Washington Post  2 June 2016  Image: Protesters wave flags of Turkey and Germany in front of the Brandenburg gate in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, June 1, 2016, as they demonstrate against a resolution of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, on the Armenian Genocide a century ago. Turkey’s relations with Germany will be harmed if the parliament in Berlin

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Behind the Barricades of Turkey’s Hidden War

Behind the Barricades of Turkey's Hidden War  A simmering conflict with the Kurds threatens to consume an American ally and inflame an already unstable region. Robert F. Worth, The New York Times Magazine  May 24 2016  Image: Kurds in Cizre, Turkey, on March 2, surveying the damage after much of their town was destroyed by Turkish forces. CreditMoises Saman/Magnum, for The New York Times On the morning of Oct. 29, 2014, a long convoy of armored

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Turkey is Making it Impossible for Millions of Refugees to Get the Help They Need

Turkey is making it impossible for millions of refugees to get the help they need Ben Smilowitz and Emily Troutman, The Washington Post 24 May, 2016 Image: Syrian refugees at a tent camp on the outskirts of Izmir, Turkey, on April 28. (Chris Mcgrath/Getty Images) On Monday, thousands of humanitarians will gather in Istanbul for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit, hosted by the United Nations. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that

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Turkish Parliament Approves Stripping Lawmakers of Their Immunity

Turkish Parliament Approves Stripping Lawmakers of Their Immunity Ceylan Yeginsu, The New York Times  20 May 2016  Image: Members of the National Assembly shouted slogans Friday during a vote on the measure, which would clear the way for the prosecution of many Kurdish lawmakers for alleged ties to militants. European Pressphoto Agency ISTANBUL — Lawmakers from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s governing party pushed through an amendment

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Turkey: Opposition Politician Slams EU and U.S.

TURKISH OPPOSITION POLITICIAN SLAMS EU, U.S. FOR ERDOGAN DEALS JOSH LOWE  14 April 2016   Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), in Istanbul, Turkey, October 31. Demirtas has criticized the U.K. and U.S. for ignoring alleged human rights abuses.   The U.S. and Europe are ignoring alleged human rights abuses in Turkey to further their own political ends, a pro-Kurdish opposition politician

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E.U. Migrant Proposals Aim to Overhaul Asylum Rules

E.U. Migrant Proposals Aim to Overhaul Asylum Rules James Kanter, The New York Times 06 April 2016   Image: Migrants on the Greek island of Chios on Wednesday. CreditPetros Giannakouris/Associated Press     BRUSSELS — Days after a wave of deportations of migrants arriving in Europe from Turkey, the European Union’s executive arm proposed a new quota system for members accepting asylum seekers to ease the burden on the nations confronted

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