News Turkey History: Turkey: Russia Completes First Part of Delivery of Missile Defense System
"Anyone who has a modicum of history or looks at a map, that Turkey and Russian relations have to have a limit, an inherent limit," said Aydin Selcen, a former senior Turkish diplomat. Selcen points ...
News Turkey History: Turkey Threatens to Reignite European Migrant Crisis
"We are facing the biggest wave of migration in history. If we open the floodgates, no European government will be able to survive for more than six months. We advise them not to try our patience." — Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu. "Turkey is
News Turkey History: From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes
Hitler followed the history of the Armenian massacres closely and often referred to them in the years before the Second World War. Nazi Germany envied the Turks for having “purified” the Turkic race ...
News Turkey History: A cookbook that offers Turkey’s history, agriculture, daily life, and culinary culture
Thumb through a cookbook from a country you’re unfamiliar with and you’re getting more than just an interesting dish to add to your repertoire. You’ll acquire a sense of the region’s agriculture, its ...
News Turkey History: Turkey to end draft — for those who can pay
In Turkey, conscription is taken seriously by the state and the ... But the opposition points to the military's near-sacred place in Turkish history, the likelihood of weakened operational ...
News Turkey History: Turkey considers role for Russian missiles in Med gas feud
For some of Turkey's military and civilian leadership, history is also an influence. They bitterly remember a crippling U.S. arms embargo imposed after Turkey invaded the northern third of Cyprus in ...
News Turkey History: Quinoa and zucchini are surprise ingredients in turkey-feta meatballs
A landmark United Nations report has found that plant and animal species will disappear around the world faster in the coming years, at a rate unprecedented in human history.
News Turkey History: History Haunts Emerging Markets on Turkey-Contagion Anniversary
Emerging markets limped toward the end of the month feeling the sting of a disappointing Chinese manufacturing report, poor industrial production data from Korea and a profit miss from Samsung ...
News Turkey History: Turkey orders re-vote in Istanbul election after opposition victory
Howard Eissenstat, a Turkey expert at the nonprofit Project for Middle East Democracy and a Middle East history scholar at St. Lawrence University in New York, said Monday’s ruling “removes the last ...
News Turkey History: Why Russian Missiles (Again) Divide Turkey and the U.S.
There’s history here. Turkey is home to the Incirlik Air Base, used for U.S. operations against Islamic State and, decades before that, the main operating location for the U.S. U-2 spy plane -- until ...
