In the breathtakingly rugged Turkish province of Hakkari, pristine rivers surge through spectacular mountain gorges and partridges feed beneath tall clusters of white hollyhock. I’m attending the ...
ANKARA, TurkeyANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish Republic, founded from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire by the national independence hero Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, turns 100 on Oct. 29. Ataturk established a ...
REUTERS - A century after their hopes of statehood were thwarted by colonial powers carving up the Ottoman Empire, the embattled Kurds of the Middle East are hampered once again by regional hostility ...
Simon AGOPIAN (1857-1921) Kurdish man with rifle Oil on canvas. Signed lower right 60 x 41 cm (Cracked and missing) Provenance: Private collection. Bibliography: Armenian Painters in the Ottoman ...
Turkey’s present cannot be understood without reference to its quite recent origins. Russian czar Nicholas I is generally credited with coining the expression “the sick man of Europe,” which he used ...
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