It's difficult to plow through the many layers of rank idiocy in the assertion that Turkey is "lost to the Islamists"; I can identify at least a few...The insinuation that the oppression of the Kurds was launched by AKP, rather than by the secular Turkish...
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Ertugrul Osman, heir to the Ottoman Empire, died yesterday in Istanbul. I profiled his dynasty here. The head of House Osman is now Bayezid III, who was born in Paris,.
This is important:Turkey and Armenia, whose century of hostilities constitutes one of the world’s most enduring and acrimonious international rivalries, have agreed to establish diplomatic relations, the two countries announced.
How important is Gallipoli to Australian identity?A row has erupted between Australia's PM Kevin Rudd and his Labor predecessor Paul Keating over the importance of Gallipoli, a WWI battle site in Turkey.Mr Keating dismissed as "nonsense" the view that a new Australian identity was forged...
Part I Part II Two Royal Navy admirals had a chance to stop, or at least slow, Goeben and Breslau. Admiral Archibald Milne had under his command the battlecruisers Inflexible,.