Turkey

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/24/2021
  

  Breaking With Predecessors, Biden Declares Mass Killings of Armenians a Genocide

  The declaration, which has been long expected, was greeted with modest enthusiasm by human rights activists who view it as symbolic, and with denunciations by the Turkish government. 

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• SOURCE: NPR Illinois
  4/26/2021
  

  'The Historical Record Is Affirmed': Armenian Reaction To Biden Recognition Of Armenian Genocide

  Historian Ara Sanjian says that the Biden Administration's recognition of the Armenian Genocide is long overdue. 

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• SOURCE: Stockholm Center for Freedom
  7/22/2020
  

  Scholars to Erdoğan: Persecution of Professor Şık shows your disregard for academic freedom and public health

  In a letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Professor Dina Rizk Khoury urged that all charges against Professor Bülent Şık, a food engineer working on public health and food safety, be dropped.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/27/2019
  

  A Turkish dam is about to flood one of the oldest continuously settled places on Earth

  The project has also faced years of stiff resistance from critics who said its benefits were hardly worth the cost to local communities and from historians, archaeologists and others who say the preservation of Turkey’s cultural heritage is a global concern.

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• 11/7/19
  

  The History Briefing on the Assassination of ISIS Founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: How Historians Have Discussed Recent News

  by Lila Someshwar

  Historians give much-needed context to a complex issue. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/29/19
  

  A Belated Recognition of Genocide by the House

  by Samantha Power

  For too long, Turkey bullied America into silence. Not anymore.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/30/19
  

  National Security Archive Publishes New Briefing Book on Nuclear Weapons and Turkey Since 1959

  by William Burr

  During Mid-1960s Turkish Officials Were Interested in Producing an “Atomic Bomb”

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• 10/20/19
  

  The Greatest Danger in the Kurdish Crisis

  by Zaman Stanizai

  If the heavy-handedness of the Turkish military is any indication, Erdogan seems to be bent on the ethnic cleansing and relocation of Kurds in northern Syria and resettling their lands along the Turkish border with Arab Syrian refugees currently residing in Turkey.

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• 10/20/19
  

  Kurdish Stalingrad: The Origins of the US-YPG Battle Synergy

  by Robert Troy Souza

  The American president would be wise to familiarize himself with the recent history that led to the small falafel shop in central Kobane that bears his name.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  10/17/19
  

  Historian Brad Simpson Says He's Never Read a Letter As Unhinged As Trump's To Erdogan

  Among those on Twitter voicing their bemusement, was U.S. foreign relations expert Brad Simpson, an associate professor at the University of Connecticut.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  10/15/19
  

  Video of the Week: The history behind Turkey's involvement in Syria's civil war

  Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria highlights the complicated relationship between the U.S., Turkey and the Kurds.

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• 10/15/19
  

  An Act of Betrayal and Infamy

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  To think that the President would sell America’s interests and abandon its allies for the sake of personal financial gain is not merely outrageous but criminal. 

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• SOURCE: UPI
  7/24/19
  

  Historian unearths evidence that Istanbul directed Armenian genocide

  New documents suggest the Armenian genocide was both sanctioned and assisted by leaders of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul.

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• SOURCE: Euro News
  6/10/2019
  

  New dam on River Tigris threatens thousands of years of heritage in Turkey

  A new dam being built on the River Tigris is believed to responsible for potentially displacing around 50 thousand people from the area, and the historical losses are incalculable.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/21/19
  

  Destroying Istanbul to 'Restore' It

  Many Istanbulites are concerned that the city’s plans for the future leave its storied past behind.

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• SOURCE: WAMU
  3/18/19
  

  The Turkish Embassy’s Surprising Role In Desegregating D.C. Jazz

  What was a completely segregated art slowly — and somewhat secretly — began to integrate in the halls of the Turkish Embassy.

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• 2/16/19
  

  Sacrificing Greatness For Personal Ambition

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  An Open Letter to Turksih President Erdogan

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  6-29-18
  

  Ritual Child Sacrifice Uncovered in Bronze Age Turkey

  Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that at least 11 children and young people were killed as a result of ritualistic sacrifice between 3100 and 2800 B.C.E.

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• SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
  5-13-18
  

  Daniel Pipes says regime change in Iran is “inevitable”

  by Daniel Pipes

  In an expansive interview he gives his views on Iran, Turkey and the future of Islamism.

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• SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
  12-23-16
  

  Two Bullies, Putin and Erdoğan, Try Friendship

  by Daniel Pipes

  Turks and Russians have a long and complex history.