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President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan walk to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
SAUL LOEB / AFP / Getty Images
U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan hold a joint press conference, during a rain shower, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, May 16, 2013.
Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan stands among Justice and Development Party (AKP) members during a meeting at the party headquarters in Ankara, September 28, 2011. (Photo: Adem Altan /AFP / Getty Images)
Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan stands among Justice and Development Party (AKP) members during a meeting at the party headquarters in Ankara September 28, 2011. (Photo: Adem Altan /AFP / Getty Images)
ZAC BAILLIE / AFP / Getty Images
A Syrian refugee child helps a man to collect wood at a refugee camp on the Syria-Turkey border, on Jan. 9, 2013. The internally displaced Syrians faced further misery due to increasing shortage of supplies as heavy rain was followed by a drop in temperatures.
Amr Nabil / AP
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center, reacts as he visits the tomb of late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who was assassinated in 1981, as he visits the memorial of the Unknown Soldier in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. At right, General Hassan al Rawini, commander of the Egyptian army's central command.
Not originally published in LIFE. Turkey feather fashion, 1948.
Not originally published in LIFE. Turkey feather fashion, 1948.
Not originally published in LIFE. Turkey feather fashion, 1948.
Not originally published in LIFE. Turkey feather fashion, 1948.
Not originally published in LIFE. Turkey feather fashion, 1948.
Not originally published in LIFE. Turkey feather fashion, 1948.
Not originally published in LIFE. Turkey feather fashion, 1948.
Not originally published in LIFE. Turkey feather fashion, 1948.
Not originally published in LIFE. Turkey feather fashion, 1948.
Not originally published in LIFE. Turkey feather fashion, 1948.
Caption from LIFE. “Instead of rice, handfuls of turkey feathers are showered on the happy newlyweds as they dash out the door.”
Caption from LIFE. "Instead of rice, handfuls of turkey feathers are showered on the happy newlyweds as they dash out the door."
Caption from LIFE. “Wedding attendants, dressed in pastel-dyed turkey feathers, give last-minute attention to the pure-white plumage of the bride’s gown (center).”
Caption from LIFE. "Wedding attendants, dressed in pastel-dyed turkey feathers, give last-minute attention to the pure-white plumage of the bride's gown (center)."
Burhan Ozbilici / AP
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ankara, Turkey, Dec. 26, 2012.
Burak Kara / Getty Images
Journalist Hrant Dink, who was killed in 2007, was one of the most prominent voices of Turkey's shrinking Armenian community. This photo was taken on May 19, 2005
AP
Iraq's vice president Tariq al-Hashemi speaks in Istanbul, Turkey. An Iraqi court found the nation's Sunni vice president guilty Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012 of running death squads against security forces and Shiites, and sentenced him to death in absentia.
Serkan Senturk / AP
Turks shop at a open air market in Istanbul. Tough times could be ahead.
PA
DOWNING STREET: The Istanbul blasts gave Bush and Blair a big audience. They called for a worldwide war on terror
Q. Sakamaki / Redux
Founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk separated mosque and state, and Turkey has looked Westward ever since. Secularism is well entrenched, but an Islam-focused party has led the country since 2002.
Yahya Ahmed / AP
A villager walks through rubble in Qlatooka, near Iraq's border with Turkey on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007. Turkish war planes bombed Kurdish rebel targets inside northern Iraq on Sunday.
Tarik Tinazay / AFP / Getty
A young Alevi couple stands near the tomb of Haci Bektas Veli in Hacibektash, Turkey. Veli is one of the principal figures of Alevism.
REUTERS
A victim is helped in front of the HSBC Bank in Istanbul. Two explosions shook the city, killing 27 and injuring 400
Ayman Oghanna / Corbis
A barber watches the results of the U.S. presidential election in Istanbul, Nov. 7, 2012.
Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty
Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan react as he delivers a speech in Istanbul, on June 11, 2011.
Osman Orsal / Reuters
Children attend a class at Fatih College in Istanbul April 16, 2008. The 640-pupil school is run by followers of Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish Muslim preacher who advocates moderate Islam rooted in modern life.
Associated Press
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle speaks during a forum at the Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Kayhan Ozer / A.A. / Sipa
Erdogan, Turkey's transformational Prime Minister, wants to emerge as a leader of the region
BULENT KILIC / AFP / Getty Images
Turkish riot policemen push away supporters of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad in front of the Istanbul Congress Center where the "Group of Friends of the Syrian People" meeting is held, in Istanbul, on April 1, 2012.
MEHDI FEDOUACH/AFP
Two Turkish soldiers examine a Tomahawk missile which fell a few hundred meters away from a group of houses in Buyukmerdes, southern Turkey. At least three U.S. cruise missiles have fallen on the Turkish territory within a week
Photograph by Adem Altan
The standout Erdogan with his party's newly elected MPs after June's landslide
Mustafa Ozer / AFP / Getty Images
Pro-Kurdish demonstrators gesture and chant slogans during a protest, in Istanbul on December 29, 2011, against the Turkish government and the Turkish air strike which killed 35 Kurdish smugglers in southeast Turkey
Carlo Bavagnoli—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Eastern Orthodox Church Patriarch Athenagoras I, Archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), visits a sick member of the church, 1967.
Nazik Armenakyan / AFP / Getty
Armenians lay flowers at the monument for its victims of the 1915 massacre at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish army. Turkey has always denied that the killings constitute genocide
Suzanne Plunkett / Bloomberg News / Landov
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's Prime Minister, speaks at an economic seminar.
Max Rossi / REUTERS
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Mustafa Ozer / AFP / Getty Images
Journalists and human-rights activists protest in front of the Istanbul courthouse during the trial of two prominent Turkish journalists Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener on Nov. 22, 2011
Kathryn Cook / Prospekt
A funeral procession for Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. Dink was shot in broad daylight outside of his newspaper's office in Istanbul.
AFP / Getty
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul addresses the media, May 6, 2007. Gul withdrew his candidacy for Turkey's Presidency on Sunday.
Burhan Ozbilici / File / AP
Necmettin Erbakan, a former prime minister who led Turkey's first Islamist government between 1996 and 1997, speaks during a news conference in Ankara, Turkey.
Ann Williamson / The Capital Journal / AP
A turkey on a turkey farm.
Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME
From right: U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan walk to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington D.C., on May 16, 2013.
OSMAN ORSAL / REUTERS
Manchester United's manager Alex Ferguson at the Champions League soccer match aganist Besiktas at the Inonu Stadium in Istanbul, on September 15, 2009.
Hakan Goktepe / AP
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu point toward the Bosporus before a working lunch in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 21, 2013.
MURAD SEZER / REUTERS
Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), gestures in front of an image of Abdullah Ocalan during a rally to celebrate the spring festival of Newroz in Istanbul on March 17, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
SEDAT SUNA / EPA
Kurdish people shout slogans as they hold flags of the Peace and Democracy Party during Newroz celebrations in Istanbul on March 17, 2013.
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Caption from LIFE. “Wedding banquet after the ceremony consisted of cranberry sauce, vegetable gravy, potatoes, and to no one’s surprise, plenty of hot sliced turkey.”
Caption from LIFE. "Wedding banquet after the ceremony consisted of cranberry sauce, vegetable gravy, potatoes, and to no one's surprise, plenty of hot sliced turkey."
Turkey Feather Wedding Dress 1948
Turkey Feather Wedding Dress 1948
Turkey feather fashion, 1948.
Turkey feather fashion, 1948.
Turkpix / Associated Press
In this Tuesday, July 24, 2012 photo, a Syrian boy sits atop a damaged military tank at the border town of Azaz, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Aleppo, Syria. Turkey sealed its border with Syria to trucks on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 cutting off a vital supply line to the embattled nation as fighting stretched into its fifth day in the commercial capital of Aleppo.
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Male turkey colors of feathers in Zion National Park.
Adem Altan / AFP / Getty Images
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers and supporters of his Justice and Development Party on February, 1, 2011 in Ankara. Erdogan urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to meet his people's "desire for change".
Marco Grobb for TIME
Portrait of Prime Minister Erdogan
Chip East / Reuters
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, in New York, September 22, 2011.
SAYGIN SERDAROGLU / AFP / Getty Images
A Kurdish protester clashes with Turkish police during a "Noruz" or "Navroz" celebration in Istanbul on March 18, 2012.
From left: Umit Bektas; Thomas Peter; Max Rossi / Reuters
From left: Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi
Giorgio Cosulich / Getty Images
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Adem Altan / AFP / Getty Images
Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan attend a rally in Ankara on May 29, 2011, ahead of June 12 elections
Photograph by Jodi Hilton / ENN Photo
Jubilant in Istanbul Supporters of the Justice and Development Party celebrate its third consecutive victory in parliamentary elections
Jim Young / Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in front of Ethiopia's President Meles Zenawi during the family photo session at the G20 Summit in Seoul November 12, 2010
SAYGIN SERDAROGLU / AFP / Getty Images
A Kurdish protester clashes with Turkish police during a "Noruz" or "Navroz" celebration in Istanbul on March 18, 2012.
Marco Grob for Time
Portrait of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Adem Altan / AFP / Getty Images
Turkey's outgoing chief of staff General Isik Kosaner, left, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Nov. 30, 2010, joined other top military officials in a mass resignation on Friday
Adem Altan / AFP / Getty
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan
Umit Bektas / REUTERS
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan leaves his seat to address his ruling AK Party MPs during a meeting at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara on July 29
Osman Orsal / Reuters
Turkish demonstrators shout anti-U.S. and anti-Israel slogans during the al-Quds day demonstration in Istanbul, August 26, 2011.
Carolyn Drake for TIME
Turks in Istanbul's Taksim Square protest the Israeli raid on the "Mavi Marmara"
Louai Beshara / AFP / Getty Images
Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, listens as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint press conference in Damascus on Oct. 11, 2010
Murad Sezer / Reuters
Harun Yahya attends a news conference in Istanbul May 12, 2011.
Murad Sezer / Reuters
Demonstrators protest against Israel near the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 1, 2010
Burhan Ozbilici / AP
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, second from left, and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan inspect a guard of honour before their talks in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July 27, 2010.
BURHAN OZBILICI/AP
Dramatic Victory: Erdogan salutes his cheering supporters at an election rally
TARIK TINAZAY/AFP
PLEDGE: Victor Erdogan, before a portrait of Ataturk, promises not to mix government and religion
GALI TIBBON / AFP / Getty Images
Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) jubilate with a huge banner with his image on July 22, 2007 at the party's headquarters in the capital city of Ankara,
TARIK TINAZAY/AFP
Verheugen, left, meets Erdogan in Ankara
Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty
Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Justice and Development Party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, attend a rally in Istanbul.
Petros Giannakouris / AP
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, right, and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands in Athens, Friday, May 14, 2010.
UMIT BEKTAS / REUTERS
"IMMOVABLE:" Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan won't agree to key E.U. demands over Cyprus
UMIT BEKTAS / REUTERS
"Moving on" In Turkey, 58% voted for constitutional reform
"Rock the casbah" W Istanbul blends both
Ottoman and contemporary style
Kerim Okten / EPA
Turkey's ruling party, AKP, agreed with the MHP party to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic headscarves in universities.
Burhan Ozbilici / AP
A huge "Evet" (Yes) poster put up by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party in Istanbul's Uskudar district
STR / AFP / Getty
Turkish protestors in Istanbul demonstrate against Kurdish rebels.
FATIH SARIBAS / REUTERS
Women in Istanbul demonstrate against domestic violence
Kayhan Ozer / AA / ABACAUSA.COM
Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, welcomes Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan upon his arrival for a meeting in Damascus
Umit Bektas / Reuters
Turkey's Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, the ruling AK Party's Presidential candidate, acknowledges applause before a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara May 2, 2007.
FRANCO ORIGLIA / GETTY
Turks protest in Istanbul during a rally against the visit of Pope Benedict XVI, who will make his first visit to a Muslim country as pontiff on November 28.
HURRIYET/REUTERS
One of two Istanbul synagogues torn apart by car bombs
ANADOLU AJANSI / AFP / Getty
A Spanish oil tanker waits at Turkey's Ceyhan oil terminal in the Mediterranean
FATIH SARIBAS / REUTERS
TAKING CHARGE: Turkey's newly elected President Abdullah Gul reviews presidential honour guards as he arrives to take the oath of office in the parliament in Ankara August 28, 2007.
Romano Arturo Mari / AFP / Getty
Pope Benedict XVI speaks with Mustafa Cagrici, mufti of Istanbul, as he visits the Blue Mosque.
Tolga Bozoglu / EPA
Pro-government supporters chant slogans against the Turkish constitutional court during a rally in Istanbul, Turkey, March 15, 2008.
VINCENZO PINTO / AFP / GETTY
Pope Benedict XVI (L) is welcomed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) on his arrival at Ankara's airport, 28 November 2006.
AP
Police forensic experts examine the scene after an explosion in Istanbul on July 27
Photoshot / Landov
An explosion at a shopping mall in Turkey's capital, Ankara, on Tuesday killed six people and injured 56.
LYNSEY ADDARIO/CORBIS for TIME
Mourning one of the 61 killed in the Istanbul bombings
MURAD SEZER/AP
An explosion outside the Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul killed at least 18 people
MUSTAFA OZER / AFP / GETTY
ON THE JOB: Hughes in Turkey last month
OSMAN ORSAL/AP
SAY NO TO WAR: Supporters of Turkey's new pro-Islamic government are overwhelmingly against the U.S.-led campaign
Courtesy of Piotr Zalewski
The Hakkari Gucu or Hakkari Power soccer team in Hakkari, Turkey during a practice session on March 20, 2013.
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