A Marxist group that sympathizes with Syria claims responsibility for the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Ankara
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Patriot Missiles Arrive in Turkey: How They Affect the Syria Equation
While many Turks are protesting the presence of NATO patriot batteries, one border city and its environs enjoy a measure of relief at the deployment
Why Turkey Is Talking to Its PKK Nemesis
Turks and Kurds may be trading accusations over responsibility for the execution-style murder of three Kurdish activists in the heart of Paris last week, but they agree on one point: the timing was no coincidence. The …
Kurdish Assassinations in Paris Turn a Spotlight on Turkey-PKK Talks
The murder of three Kurdish nationalists in Paris amid reports of peace talks between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party has sparked clashing theories over who is responsible for the killings
Why Is Turkey’s Prime Minister at War with a Soap Opera?
A Turkish soap opera based on the life and reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the 16th century Ottoman sultan might at times appear gaudy, predictable, and rife with historical inaccuracies. But, to Turkey’s Prime Minister …
Where Turkey Is Already at War: Are Kurdish Militants Doing Syria’s Bidding?
As Turkey and Syria trade fire, the one war Turkey is already fighting — its conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party — has become the most violent in more than a decade
France Holds Seven Suspects Thought to Be in a ‘Terrorism Cell’
French prosecutors announce the indefinite detention of seven suspected Islamist extremists arrested on Oct. 6, after raids unearthed guns, bombmaking equipment and evidence of recruiting French radicals to join militias in Syria
Will the Next Front in the Syrian Revolt Be with Turkey?
Several days of cross-border shelling raise tensions between Ankara and Damascus. What are the dangers of escalation?
Turkey Rattles Its Saber at Syria but Remains Unlikely to Invade
Ankara feels compelled to respond to shelling that killed five Turks but is in no position to intervene alone in Syria’s civil war
Turkey Retaliates Against Syria: How It May Give Rebel Soldiers Cover to Expand
It was not the first time Syria artillery has hit the Turkish town of Akçakale. But this time Ankara struck back
Turkey’s Massive Military Trial Opens Old Wounds and New Anxieties
Claims of procedural and evidentiary anomalies in a huge trial of coup plotters raise criticism of the Erdogan administration. Is the Prime Minister trying too hard to bury the military — and Turkish secularism?
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Today’s picks: the en masse arrival of Pakistan’s Hindus into neigboring India to escape religious persecution, lingering questions over Turkey’s human rights record, as it attempts to reposition itself as the Middle East’s …
The Alawite Towns That Support Syria’s Assad — in Turkey
Even as the regime’s Alawite support erodes, the President of Syria finds vocal support among his co-religionists in Turkey