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#Turkey Week 20106
  • Food section icon
    Turkish Delights

    The mighty culinary reach of the Ottoman Empire

    byJoan Nathan
  • Kurdish Turks hold a poster of jailed rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan during a celebration of the Kurdish New Year in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, March 21, 2009.(Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images)
    Kurdish Turks hold a poster of jailed rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan during a celebration of the Kurdish New Year in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, March 21, 2009.(Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Asia Minority

    The Turkish prime minister is losing control of his country’s Kurdish problem, even as rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan sits in prison

    byAliza Marcus
  • Fethullah Gulen, at left, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Silivri district prison in Istanbul during the 2008 trial there of 86 suspects in the Ergenekon affair.(Photoillustration: Tablet Magazine; Gülen photo: Fethullah-gulen.org; Erdogan photo: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images; background photo: Sezayi Erken/AFP/Getty Images)
    Fethullah Gulen, at left, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Silivri district prison in Istanbul during the 2008 trial there of 86 suspects in the Ergenekon affair.(Photoillustration: Tablet Magazine; Gülen photo: Fethullah-gulen.org; Erdogan photo: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images; background photo: Sezayi Erken/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Veiled Threat

    In Turkey, Washington’s great example of Muslim democracy, the ruling party alleges conspiracy to attack the opposition and crush dissent

    byLee Smith
  • Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Shimon Peres, and the Armenian Genocide.(Collage: Tablet Magazine; Erdogan photo: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images; Peres photo: Amos BenGershom/GPO via Getty Images; background photo: Wikimedia Commons)
    Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Shimon Peres, and the Armenian Genocide.(Collage: Tablet Magazine; Erdogan photo: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images; Peres photo: Amos BenGershom/GPO via Getty Images; background photo: Wikimedia Commons)
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    State of Denial

    It’s time for Israel to rethink its rejection of the Armenian Genocide

    byPeter Balakian
  • Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan earlier this month.(David Gannon/AFP/Getty Images)
    Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan earlier this month.(David Gannon/AFP/Getty Images)
    News section icon
    Talking Turkey

    Inside the West’s once-ally

    byThe Editors
  • Israelis of Kurdish origin hold Kurdish and Israeli flags during a demonstration outside the Turkish embassy in wake of Israel’s deadly raid on the Mavi Mamara.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
    Israelis of Kurdish origin hold Kurdish and Israeli flags during a demonstration outside the Turkish embassy in wake of Israel’s deadly raid on the Mavi Mamara.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Another Israel

    Kurds and Jews share a similar history and a common enemy

    byJames Kirchick
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