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…reader what is to be done. Power’s work begins with a bang—the 1921 assassination in Berlin of Mehmed Talat, the former Turkish interior minister who presided over the massacre of Armenians. It was one of the few actions, as Power notes, taken to punish the Turks. Woodrow Wilson,...

000 Syrian refugees spilling across the Turkish

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…cal significance. As expected, following the release of the report, Turkey has toughened its stance with Israel. While Turkish foreign policy has not wavered despite the report's findings, the government has also stated that it does not recognize the report's validity. Shortly a...

…pe-36988726 Turkey coup bid: Fethullah Gulen's lawyers fear attack on his life ® 25 minutes ago Lawyers for US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen say they fear an attack on his life, in the wake of the failed coup attempt on 15 July in Turkey. Turkey has issued an arrest wa...

…t had an anchor on the Levant. Macedonian expansion under Alexander demonstrated that a power controlling Levantine and Turkish ports could support aggressive operations far to the east, to the Hindu Kush and beyond. While Turkish ports might have sufficed for offensive operation...

…tify who are the ones who know well how to kill. As the Syrian death count clicks every day to come close to 2,000, the Turkish-Kurdish death count does not stop, already over 40,000 since 1984, both adding to the big pool of blood called the Middle East. Only during this Ramadan...

…e589d33555cc5fa8855/egypts-general-intelligence-registers-washington-lobbyist. 20. Theodoric Meyer, “Flynn Lobbied for Turkish-linked Firm after Election, Documents Show," Politico, March 8, 2017, http://www. politico.com/story/2017/03/michael-flynn-lobby-turkey-235843. 21. Ben...

…gunman who carried out the massacre a "heroic soldier of the caliphate." The suspect had yet to be named and located by Turkish authorities early Tuesday. The President-elect made building a wall along the country's southern border one of his main campaign talking points, frequen...

… 8, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/ world/europe/erdogan-pushes-ottoman-language-classes-as-part-of-tradtional-turkish-values.html. 5. Eleanor Albert, “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization,” Council on Foreign Relations, October 14, 2015, http://www.cfr.org/ china/sha...

…ars to be some serious, clandestine U.S. support for the rebel forces. The September 11 meeting in Benghazi between the Turkish and the American ambassadors was very curious. They are both based in Tripoli, hundreds of miles away. What were they doing in Benghazi? Arranging for A...

…c issue Yusuf Kanli May 15, 2011 -- Syria is no Libya for many reasons; not just because it is a country right on the Turkish border or, like Turkey, it has a Kurdish population and an explosion there may ignite an explosion on this side of the border as well. Like a broken wa...

…eement between Lebanese leaders brokered by Qatar. 21 May 2008 Israel and Syria announce holding indirect talks through Turkish mediation. 30 July 2008 Prime Minister Olmert announces he is not seeking re-election. 15 October 2008 Establishment of diplomatic relations between Syr...

…red a courtroom in a wheelchair, having accidentally blown his legs off while fleeing police. A January alert issued by Turkish intelligence was light on specifics but quite certain the Quds operatives would be staying in five-star hotels. "There's a number of reasons that Irania...

…rty’s conservative policies might inadvertently lead to precisely that. For several years the AKP has been transforming Turkish society by making religion the moral compass of the country’s body politic. This does not mean that the party wants to turn Turkey into a theocracy. But...