Opinion | Turkey: History Comes Back To Bite Erdogan
In 1998, while still mayor of Istanbul, Erdogan was arrested on charges of inciting racial hatred and spent four months in ...
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literary notes; Lamenting the decline of a city: shehr aashob in Urdu
THE standards of Urdu have suffered a tangible lapse and we have come to terms with the tragedy. But one’s heart sinks when one listens to some so-called professors of Urdu mispronounce shehr aashob, ...
Turkey is at a crossroads – a new generation is testing Erdogan’s power
Erdogan knows the playbook – he also rose to national prominence as mayor of Istanbul, back in the 1990s when Turkey was ...
Turkey: Is Erdogan taking an even more authoritarian turn?
The imprisonment of Istanbul's mayor and the resulting protests have put the focus back on the Turkish president's political evolution. Once considered a reformer, he has more recently mostly ...
‘Why would they choose her?’ Friends, family lament ICE arrest of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk.
After ICE arrest, friends, colleagues, former professors, and family said that the US government has misrepresented Tufts ...