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To President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his religious conservative supporters, the reconversion of the Hagia Sophia to a mosque is a milestone in Turkey’s rebirth as a powerful, Muslim nation after a century of misguided ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has never been one for introspection or restraint in his declarations, but his recent statements display an outsized confidence, even by his standards. In the next three years, Erdogan said, ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may be seriously pursuing nuclear weapons, according to non-proliferation expert John Spacapan. Spacapan who is a fellow at the Non-proliferation Policy Education Center in Washington DC, wrote in an article ...
Jul 9, 2020 Mark Alan, a retired schoolteacher from Fort Collins, Colorado, is something of a late developer. He was 42 when he “came to faith” and 65 when he married for the first time, with ...
Jul 8, 2020 Turkey’s relationship with the United States is historically fraught. A recent report by the German Marshall Fund of the United States noted there has never been a “golden era” for Turkey’s relations with the United ...
Currently, everyone in Turkey is talking about “Generation Z” — a term that refers to those young people born around the turn of the millennium. It is a generation that knows no other Turkey than ...
Hagia Sophia is the symbol of Istanbul and Turkey’s most popular tourist attraction. Every year, millions of visitors take in its gigantic brick dome and elaborate frescoes, which have earned the building UNESCO World Cultural ...
Jun 30, 2020 ISTANBUL — Turkey lashed out at “LGBT propaganda,” claiming it undermined free speech, and defended the head of the Turkish Red Crescent after the humanitarian organization’s international umbrella body said his comments violated ...
Jun 26, 2020 A Turkish court on June 19 banned access to content in a title on The Sour Dictionary, one of the most popular social media platforms in Turkey. That title is “Emine Erdogan’s Purse.” It’s about a ...
Jul 10, 2020 The first round in the Turkish-French confrontation over Libya, coming atop the energy row in the eastern Mediterranean, resulted in Ankara’s favor. In early July, a furious France pulled out from a ...