The Fragmented Soul of Turkey: Ataturk’s Dream and Erdogan’s Ambition
In Turkey, journalists rot in cells, professors flee abroad, and Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul’s mayor, fights a battle that feels like a last stand.
In Turkey, journalists rot in cells, professors flee abroad, and Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul’s mayor, fights a battle that feels like a last stand.
Himmerod Abbey, nestled in the wooded Eifel hills, far removed from the political storm clouds swirling over postwar Europe. But the men who had gathered there were not monks. They were generals—former high-ranking officers of Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht.
Migrants in Europe are complaining about receiving neither pocket money nor a good hotel. Meanwhile, anti-immigration sentiment is skyrocketing.
In Azerbaijan, the land of the Azeris. A French street artist, Theo Clerc was given pardon after spending more than a year in Azerbaijan prison.
Russia and Ukraine delegations met in person for the first time since March 2022, a month after Moscow invaded its neighbor. The scene was an Ottoman-era palace on Istanbul’s Bosphorus shoreline.