On October 6, the presidents of America and Turkey spoke by phone. There is no transcript of what was said, but the White House issued a press release announcing the decision of Turkey’s president to attack northern Syria, and that of the United States to withdraw...
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Is Erdogan a Pinochet After All?
“For a state to endure, it needs more than commerce and security. It needs civic fraternity.” --Aristotle Turks and Kurds have...
Cavusoglu and Me
When two Turkish cabinet members were barred from campaigning for the dictatorship of Turkish President Erdogan in Germany, the...
Will Trump Help Kurds Burn the Treaty of Lausanne?
In his book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump shares with his readers a typical hour-by-hour day of phone calls and meetings...
Two Presidents, an Oscar and Kurds
(Or an Open Letter to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) Dear Mr. Ahmadinejad: You recently made news in America with your open letter to...
A Judge, a Diplomat, Holocaust and Kurds
American judges are under a glaring spotlight. They nullified President Trump’s executive order barring citizens of seven...
When Saddam Played the CIA Like a Drum
We don’t normally think of American novelist Ernest Hemingway and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the same breath. But...
Can Murder Lurk Behind Poetry?
December 25, 2016 Is shooting an unarmed man courageous? Is shooting him in the back manful? That’s what one Turkish man did,...