... of the American Coup in Guatemala. Dreaming in Turkish Stephen Kinzer My favorite word in Turkish is istiklal. fectly named because its human panorama The dictionary says it means “independ­ reflects Turkey’s drive to break away from ence,” and it has special resonance in Turkey...

... . The bones belong to victims of the wave of killings that hit Cyprus in July and August 1974, after an attempted coup d'état sparked fighting between the island's Greek-speaking Orthodox Christian majority and its Turkish-speaking Muslim minority. Amid violence triggered by the Greek-backed insurrection...

... and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books, forthcoming). Turks, Armenians, and the “G-Word” Belinda Cooper an d Taner Akcam History has its long-buried minefields the accession of a nation with a Muslim posted with warnings that trespassers can majority...

...Deborah Steinborn Their widespread achievements as entrepreneurs and businessmen prompted an in-depth study of 150 mid-sized Turkish-German companies by the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Turks in Germany are still most often associated with the image of the 1960 s guest worker, yet...

... remain in the country. Czech Jews suffer few consequences for Israeli government policies, but Turkish Jews certainly do. Jewish identity, religious affiliation, and cultural tradition have become political lightening rods around the world and raised fears in metropolises like Prague and Istanbul...

.... “The conditions in the southeast are better than Somalia, but still pretty appalling in many areas,” says Jenkins. “There are so many things that need to be done in Turkey. It’s extraordinary, really, that it’s spending so much money on others.” Not surprisingly, Turkish government officials refuse...

... (unbelievably) left Turkish neighbors, and vice versa. Without the “name issue” of the Skopje government air brushing out any part of the painful his­ still in limbo more than a decade later; not torical record, or pretending that ongoing to speak of Pangalos’ even more dangerous Greek-Turkish...

... National Council (SNC), and the armed rebels, the Free Syrian Army (FSA). Still, there are potential kinks in Turkey’s humanitarian pledge. So far the Turkish government has preferred to act alone, which alienates human rights organizations and limits aid. It resists offering full legal rights to Syrians...

...Kaya Genç Copyright © 2018 World Policy Institute 2018 ADAM JONES ADAM JONES Necip Fazıl Kısakürek was a Turkish poet. In the 1920s, as the Ottoman Empire disintegrated and the modern Turkish republic took its place, he read philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and became...

..., Istanbul police not created outright, by state security forces launched a dragnet operation against Hiz­ to do the dirty work in the state’s fight bullah, a Turkish terrorist organization that against the Kurdistan Workers’ Organiza­ wanted to bring Islamic law to Turkey. The tion (p k k ). When...

... insurance. The marriage takes place in an Istanbul courthouse, where after a short ceremony, the couple poses for pictures near a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic. Then they go to the groom’s small apartment overlooking a traffic-choked highway on the outskirts...

.... By special arrangement with ing. The Special “Rum” (originally, the the Sublime Porte, Phanariots also served Arabic word for Byzantine; nowadays the as Haspodars of Moldavia and Wallachia, colloquial Turkish word for a Greek of Turk­ and as senior officials at the Ottoman court ish citizenship...

... encouraged by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, to retake Asia Minor. The Turks, led by Mustafa Kemal, drove back Greek invaders in a brutal war whose atrocities shamed both sides. Out of the mire emerged the Turkish Republic, its frontiers delineated in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which also...

... (PKK) and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), and so little flows from Turkey to extreme jihadist groups here. The population of Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep, Kilis, and Hatay is a blend of Kurdish and Arabic elements with local Turkish populations inherited from when the Ottoman Empire ruled...

... wants Pakistan to be, but Rahman still has a steep road ahead. Red tape was replaced by lucrative deals. Turkish cotton traders engaged directly with the likes of Levis and Tommy Hilfiger. Anatolian furniture manufacturers signed deals with European conglomerates. Investment poured in, and a middle...

... that it was “inconceivable” agree on any other controversial issue. that Turkey should begin talks while deny­ ing recognition to a member state. The How Big Should the EU Be? planned date for Turkish accession is 2014, Will any imaginable institutional arrange­...

... as the worst form of intolerance and bigotry. Still, in a landmark ruling in November 2010, Turkish judges complied with the 2008 decision of the European Court of Human Rights to return the remarkable 19th-century wooden orphanage on the island of Büyükada to its rightful owner, the Ecumenical Patriarchate...

... and its the Kemalist elite to denigrate Islam. Dur­ most visible symbols and supporters; it also ing the Turkish war of independence, Islam­ meant that Islamists could claim the high ic identity was the primary vehicle for pop­ moral ground as victims of human rights ular mobilization...

... are concerned. Yet als with respect to Chechnya not only recall one cannot live in Washington without be­ those of French generals during the Alger­ coming aware of the desperate need of cer­ ian War of Independence (1954-62), but tain members of Western elites for new ene­ of Turkish generals during...