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Now that Sweden and Finland have officially applied for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it may be time to pay homage to a story about the Atlantic alliance that appeared in Henry Kissinger’s memoirs, White House Years. In 1965, he wrote a...
One English transplant to America, the late Christopher Hitchens, very much hoped he would. And he didn’t just engage in wishful...
We enter this world with certain predetermined facts—such as our sex, parents, and nationality. What we do with those facts can...
If you glance at the English newspapers on any given day, you will hardly come across the word martyr. If you do the same with...
A coup may erupt in Turkey, where half of Middle Eastern Kurds live. At least that’s the prediction of the RAND Corporation, an...
Like many Kurds who dabble in politics, I was admittedly rattled upon hearing the news of Qasem Soleimani’s assassination in...
On October 6, the presidents of America and Turkey spoke by phone. There is no transcript of what was said, but the White House...
In August 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary in a war against the Allied Powers...