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“I need to know, are you really with me? Some of you are silent,” Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said during his party’s…
Idil Karsit
5
When İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu won re-run elections on June 23, 2019, he delivered a victory speech saying he’d serve as a unity candidate. "We are…
Gonca Tokyol
1
In January 2021, İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu warned that the city and its 16 million residents could run out of water supplies within 45 days. When it…
Ingrid Woudwijk
2
In the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, Turkey changed its counterterrorism strategy to focus operations “at the source in situ" of…
Hale Gönültaş
6
Antalya realtors have rarely been so busy. That’s according to Birol Yazar, who translates Russian and Ukrainian legal documents for his father’s…
Diego Cupolo
3
On July 11, 2022, Turkish Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan held their first phone call ever. The leaders not only exchanged…
Nareg Seferian
2
Few regions in the world host as much beauty, history and grievance as the Aegean Sea. The roar of jets tearing through the sky can interrupt just about…
Diego Cupolo
4
When entering the city of Konya by car, you see nothing but industry. Countless factories, large industrial areas (or sanayi in Turkish) and…
Ingrid Woudwijk
7
"This is our refugee life," Samed told me, flinging his arms open, half in desperation and half in presentation of the scene around us as hundreds of…
Gonca Tokyol
6
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