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Sorry, Turkey: You're Not Getting Crimea Back
WikiLeaked: 5 Things to Know About the Islamist Empire Trying to Take Down Erdogan
Is the White House so Scared of Turkey That it Won't Even Hang a Rug?
What Makes a Sex Shop Halal?
Standing Man Finder: The Spread of Silent Protest in Turkey
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Sorry, Turkey: You're Not Getting Crimea Back
Russia's annexation of Crimea isn't the first time the country has occupied and annexed the Black Sea peninsula -- the first came in 1783. And according to a creative -- and ill-informed -- Turkish columnist , the legal framework for that centuries...
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Thu, Mar 03 2014 3:59 PM
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WikiLeaked: 5 Things to Know About the Islamist Empire Trying to Take Down Erdogan
If the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan falls, a large portion of the blame -- or credit, depending on your perspective -- will lie with a little-known Muslim cleric named Fethullah Gulen and his shadowy, globe-spanning empire...
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Mon, Jan 01 2014 3:15 PM
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Is the White House so Scared of Turkey That it Won't Even Hang a Rug?
In 1926, Vartoohi Galezian -- a 15-year-old refugee from the genocide in Armenia -- arrived at the White House to pay a visit to President Calvin Coolidge. She had come to view the rug she and 1,400 other orphans living in Ghazir -- then part of mandate...
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Thu, Nov 11 2013 10:23 AM
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What Makes a Sex Shop Halal?
Responding to apparent pent-up demand for tacky bachelorette parties, the 38-year old Turkish entrepreneur Haluk Murat Demirel has opened the country's first halal (permissible in Islam) sex shop online. It's not the first such enterprise in the...
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Wed, Oct 10 2013 3:00 PM
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Standing Man Finder: The Spread of Silent Protest in Turkey
On Monday night, beginning at 6 p.m., Turkish performance artist Erdem Gunduz walked to the middle of Istanbul's Taksim Square, which was cleared of protesters on Sunday, and, facing Turkish flags and a portrait of the country's founder, Mustafa...
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Tue, Jun 06 2013 11:00 AM
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Video: The last stand in Turkey's Taksim Square
Overnight, Turkish riot police moved into Istanbul's Taksim Square in an effort to evict thousands of protesters following nearly two weeks of demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In some of the most chaotic...
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Wed, Jun 06 2013 10:32 AM
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Caption contest: What's happening in this photo of Turkey's protests?
It was chaos in Istanbul's Taksim Square yesterday, but a handful of valiant doner kebab stand owners remained open amid the clashes to serve police, protesters, and journalists. Even the most hardcore activist has to eat, right? In the comments section...
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Wed, Jun 06 2013 9:30 AM
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Turkish protests test Obama's close friendship with Erdogan
World leaders don't always have the liberty of choosing their allies, but they do get to pick their friends. And while Barack Obama has been criticized for his Vulcan-style diplomacy, the U.S. president has made a few buddies in office. Now, as anti...
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Tue, Jun 06 2013 11:00 AM
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The protests the Turkish press isn't talking about
What's happening in Turkey? If you're actually in the country, that may be hard to tell, since many Turkish news outlets have stayed relatively quiet on the spread of protests and clashes with police across the country. While scenes from Istanbul...
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Mon, Jun 06 2013 4:40 PM
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Did Turkey just become a little more like Texas?
What do Texas and Turkey have in common? Aside from sharing the same first letter, probably not too much. But starting today, they will be able to add something else to the list: similar alcohol policies. On Friday, after a marathon debate lasting well...
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Fri, May 05 2013 5:53 PM
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Hugo Chávez, and 7 other perfectly preserved dead world leaders you can visit
Traditions aren't traditions if they're not a little weird, right? "We have decided to prepare the body of our 'Comandante President,' to embalm it so that it remains open for all time for the people," Venezuelan Vice President...
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Fri, Mar 03 2013 10:00 AM
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NASA study finds that Middle East's water is disappearing fast
A Dead Sea's worth of water has disappeared from the Middle East. It sounds like something out of Carmen Sandiego , but it's actually the finding of a joint study by scientists from NASA, the University of California, Irvine, and the National...
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Fri, Feb 02 2013 11:05 AM
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Reading Turkish politics from a soap opera
Amidst intense public controversy, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is moving to ban the widely popular television series Muhtesem Yuzyil ( The Magnificent Century ). Critics of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP government...
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Fri, Dec 12 2012 9:06 AM
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Erdogan insinuates that IOC is anti-Islam
From Beijing to Moscow from Rio to Sydney, the Olympics have spanned continents, traversed intense political terrain, and remained competitive for bidders of all colors and creeds. That said, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan recently questioned the IOC's...
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Mon, Jul 07 2012 12:44 PM
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How would NATO respond to Syria shooting down a Turkish plane?
This morning, Turkey made the startling announcement that it had lost contact with one of its F-4 military jets near the country's southern border with Syria, and that it had launched search-and-rescue efforts for the plane's two pilots. Details...
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Fri, Jun 06 2012 11:40 AM
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