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Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush’s unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.

Carter Vaughn Finley's timely new history contends that Turkey's development has been misunderstood as an upward march from Islamic empire to secular republic.

Orhan Pamuk may be the face that Turkish literature turns to the West, but the novelist Yashar Kemal is its conscience and heart.

How powerful museums and private collectors act as stewards and looters of the world's cultural treasures.

As Turkey ramps up its outrage against a House committee vote to affirm the Armenian genocide, is anyone applauding our lawmakers' act of moral courage?

A biography of Gertrude Bell investigates the woman who created Iraq out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.

For twenty-five years, Kurdish guerrillas have battled the forces of
the Turkish state. For a while, things began to settle down, but the US
occupation of Iraq changed all that.

Perhaps you noticed them in the main square of your town this year--or last year, or any year you've been alive, in any town where you've ever lived: a group of people solemnly assembled, a pries