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Turkey’s Erdogan Visits the U.S.: Four Problems That Won’t Be Solved
As domestic scandals clouded Washington, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived for a U.S. visit enveloped in his own fog. The Turkish premier has...

Turkey’s Erdogan Visits the US: 4 Problems That Won’t Be Solved
Here are four geopolitical conundrums that underlie Turkey's relationship with Washington.

Thieves Steal Entire Bridge in Western Turkey
Residents of a village in Western Turkey awoke one morning to find their 82-foot-long, 22-ton bridge had disappeared.
Kurdish Rebels Fighting Turkey Release 8 Captives
(ANKARA, Turkey) — A Kurdish party official says Kurdish rebels have freed a group of captured soldiers and officials as part of peace efforts between Turkey and...

Fatal Blast Near U.S. Embassy in Turkey
The Associated Press reports that a suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in Ankara, Turkey right outside the U.S. embassy, killing himself and...
Photo Essays

Secretary of State John Kerry’s First Overseas Trip
Three weeks after succeeding Hillary Clinton as U.S. Secretary of State, the long-time Senator and 2004 Presidential candidate left on a ten-day inaugural trip...

LIFE in the Middle East: Photos From Syria in 1940
The ongoing chaos and violence that have come to define the Syrian civil war — a war that has now raged for close to two years, with no signs of abating — not...


