Behrouz Boochani Just Wants to Be FreeTuesday, 4 August, 2020 , 17:41

Nytimes.com | By Megan K. Stack

He fled Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. He exposed Australia’s offshore detention camps — from the inside. He survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?

 


  

Turkish Aggression Is NATO’s ‘Elephant in the Room’Monday, 3 August, 2020 , 16:46

Nytimes.com | By Steven Erlanger

BRUSSELS — The warships were escorting a vessel suspected of smuggling weapons into Libya, violating a United Nations arms embargo. Challenged by a French naval frigate, the warships went to battle alert. Outnumbered and outgunned, the French frigate withdrew.

Despite being a NATO member, Turkey has bought Russian air defense. And a recent push into Libya and its energy ambitions nearly led to armed conflicts with France and Greece.


  

U.S. Leaders Must Stand Against Turkey's Atrocities in Northern Syria | OpinionTuesday, 28 July, 2020 , 16:30

Anurima Bhargava and Nadine Maenza , U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom


  

The Hagia Sophia Was a Cathedral, a Mosque and a Museum. It’s Converting Again.Monday, 27 July, 2020 , 18:30

nytimes.com | By The Editorial Board | July 22, 2020

Opinion

Changing the secular space back into a religious one is a risk for the World Heritage Site.


  

Refugee and Author Long Detained by Australia Gets Asylum in New ZealandFriday, 24 July, 2020 , 17:56

nytimes.com | By Livia Albeck-Ripka | July 24, 2020 

Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian exile, said the news showed the vast differences between the two neighboring countries on human rights.


  

101 Grey-Haired Elders: Solution lies in a democracy alliance of all opposition forcesWednesday, 22 July, 2020 , 18:23

Bianet.org

Calling themselves "Grey-Haired Elders," 101 people from different segments of society, backgrounds and politics have issued a joint statement.

Calling out to the opposition, they have said, "The solution lies in the establishment of democracy alliance of all opposition forces without delay."


  

Turkey’s crackdown on political opposition finds a favored target: Elected Kurdish mayorsMonday, 20 July, 2020 , 17:05

Washingtonpost.com | By Kareem Fahim

To serve as a mayor from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party these days is to fear arrest at any moment and govern in circumstances that hover between stifling and absurd, said Ayhan Bilgen, one of the few who has kept his office during an unrelenting government purge.


  

Long-Planned and Bigger Than Thought: Strike on Iran’s Nuclear ProgramMonday, 13 July, 2020 , 18:29

NYT | By David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt and Ronen Bergman | July 13, 2020

Some officials say that a joint American-Israeli strategy is evolving — some might argue regressing — to a series of short-of-war clandestine strikes.


  

Erdogan Talks of Making Hagia Sophia a Mosque Again, to International DismayMonday, 13 July, 2020 , 18:01

NYT | By Carlotta Gall | Published July 11, 2020

The World Heritage site was once a potent symbol of Christian-Muslim rivalry, and it could become one once more.


  

An Ancient Valley Lost to ‘Progress’Wednesday, 8 July, 2020 , 18:00

Nytimes.com | By Carlotta Gall Photographs by Mauricio Lima

In his push for economic development, Turkey’s president has flooded the archaeological gem of Hasankeyf and displaced thousands of families.

HASANKEYF, Turkey — There was something exceptional about Hasankeyf that made visitors fall in love with the town on first sight.