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  • Ein Migrant mit einer Wollmütze in den deutschen Nationalfarben Rot, Gold und Schwarz
    Ethnologist Esra Ozyurek on the German debate

    "We must fight anti-Semitism and Islamophobia together"

    Germany has long been a role model for the way it deals with Holocaust remembrance. But now this is being used to marginalise minorities, says Turkish ethnologist Esra Ozyurek

  • Artwork of faceless women in short black dresses with short dark hair with the Turkish word "Cumhuriyet" in white
    Turkey's 100th and contemporary art

    What's left of the 'Republican woman'?

    The modern, well-educated, progressive woman was a key pillar of the Turkish Republic's social project when it was founded a hundred years ago. How have female visual artists engaged with this ideal and its reality?

  • Egyptians waving an Egyptian flag demonstrate against the Muslim Brother Mohammed Morsi
    Egypt's Muslim Brothers

    "Who determines the future of the Brotherhood remains unclear"

    Since the military coup in Egypt ten years ago, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's government has cracked down on the country's Muslim Brotherhood. Abdelrahman Ayash talks about the impact of this crisis, and how the organisation has evolved since 2013

  • Doves in a tree
    Kurdistan + 100

    Stories from a future republic

    "Kurdistan + 100" is the third anthology in Comma Press's "future past" series, and a fourth – Egypt + 100 – is set to be published next year. Writers are asked to imagine a moment in the future connected to an event in their shared past

  • Children and their teacher in a Turkish primary school classroom
    Refugees

    Battling public mood, Turkey quietly assimilates Syrians

    Mahmud Abdi came to Turkey hoping to return once the bloodshed ebbed. Almost a decade later, the 30-year-old carpenter is looking to open his own workshop in the southeastern Turkish city of Sanliurfa, where a quarter of the two million inhabitants are Syrian

  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gesticulates during a speech to parliament
    Turkey's stance on Hamas

    President Erdogan and the shifting sands of geopolitics

    Turkey initially pursued a balanced policy in an attempt to mediate between Hamas and Israel, but as Israel continues to pound Gaza, Erdogan has adopted a harsher stance. Tough choices now loom on the horizon for Ankara

  • Man stands in front of the Hagia Sophia, his back to the camera, wearing a Turkish flag t-shirt
    Turkey at 100

    A country struggling to find its place

    Tensions with the West and ambitions to become a regional peacekeeping power have brought Turkey's grand strategy into focus. Will distancing itself from Western values and ideas of democracy end in the country disengaging from Europe?

  • Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (left) and Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) displayed on banners during a naval display in Istanbul
    Turkey at 100

    What will become of Ataturk's legacy?

    A century ago, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the Turkish Republic based on secular values. Today, many fear his vision is under threat by conservative President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  • Following Hamas's terrorist attack on 7 October, the world affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself. But political leaders on the front lines – and the international community more broadly – must start thinking about how to put the region on a path towards lasting peace and stability.
    Hamas-Israel conflict

    What happens after Gaza?

    Following Hamas's terrorist attack on 7 October, the world affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself. But political leaders on the front lines – and the international community more broadly – must start thinking about how to put the region on a path towards lasting peace and stability. By Carl Bildt

  • Armenian genocide denial is a great and enduring lie by the Turkish state, characterised by ongoing violence and racism. Yavuz Ekinci takes up the subject in an unsparing and powerful novel: "Das ferne Dorf meiner Kindheit" – 'the distant village of my childhood'. Gerrit Wustmann read the book
    The deserted villages of the soul

    Yavuz Ekinci's new novel

    Armenian genocide denial is a great and enduring lie by the Turkish state, characterised by ongoing violence and racism. Yavuz Ekinci takes up the subject in an unsparing and powerful novel: "Das ferne Dorf meiner Kindheit" – 'the distant village of my childhood'. Gerrit Wustmann read the book

  • How can Rumi's teachings be lived in the context of European culture? Marian Brehmer spoke to Peter Huseyin Cunz, Sheikh of the Mevlevi order in Switzerland for 24 years
    750th anniversary of Rumi's death – Part 4

    Islam's enormous variety

    Based in Switzerland, retired electrical engineer Peter Huseyin Cunz has been a Mevlevi sheikh for 24 years. Marian Brehmer spoke to him about Rumi's teachings in a European context

  • Co-operation between Ankara, Athens and Berlin

    New alliances in European migration diplomacy

    If official statements are to be believed, the governments of Greece, Turkey and Germany share a common goal: to gain control of refugee flows in the Aegean Sea and along the River Evros on the Greek-Turkish border. By Ronald Meinardus in Athens

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