Former U.S. ambassador to Turkey Mark Parris will be online Friday, July 20, at 11 a.m. ET to discuss the coming weekend's elections, recent conflict regarding Islamic politicians and the nation's history of secularism, the problems with the nation's Kurdish minority along the Iraq border, and more.
Ahead of elections on Sunday, the leader of Turkey's hard-line nationalists flung a hangman's noose from a podium to make a point: He thinks the prime minister is soft on terrorism and should hang the imprisoned leader of Kurdish rebels.
Behind Sunday's parliamentary election lies an important debate about the three pillars that define modern Turkey: secularism, nationalism and republicanism.
Turkey's Alevi Muslims have been branded "pagans" for their musical ceremonies and liberal customs but Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is seeking their votes as his party reaches out beyond its devout Sunni Muslim base.
The political and cultural chasms are large in Turkey, as Islamist and secular visions of the future vie for votes in parliamentary elections on Sunday.
SILOPI, Turkey, July 19 -- Soldiers guarding the heights of Turkey's Kurdish southeast have long used their vantage point to deliver messages to the restive population below, plopping whitewashed stones onto the hillsides to form terse admonitions, such as: "Motherland above all."
Turkey was seeking the return of a Kurdish rebel leader, Ali Riza Altun, whom it regards as a terrorist, when Austria sent him to Iraq, prompting a diplomatic protest by the Turks.
Turkey's Higher Board of Election ( YSK) declared here Friday a halt to all kinds of radio and TV broadcast relating political parties and candidates of the parliamentary elections to be held on Sunday. Programs consist of information t ...
Draped in flags, 370,000 Turks rallied in Ankara on April 14 against their religious-minded prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It was a demonstration that emphasized both the intense opposition that Erdogan will face if he stands for president, and the depths of Turkey’s cultural division.
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