Turkey

2007

With Friends Like Turkey...

Nicole Vartanian : Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing

As Turkey ramps up its outrage against a House committee vote to affirm the Armenian genocide, is anyone applauding our lawmakers' act of moral courage?
Whose Genocide Counts?

Nicholas von Hoffman : Iraq

The House Foreign Affairs Committee bravely declares the 1915 slaughter of Armenians in Turkey genocide. Why not put the same label on themselves, for their role in the Iraq catastrophe?
Turkey's Finest Hour?

Richard Falk : Religion

The sick man of Europe gets a jolt of life, but will it last?
The Turkish Myth

Arthur Moss & Florence Gilliam
The Things They Carried

Maria Margaronis : Fiction

The Bastard of Istanbul, a saga of two interwoven families, bravely violates Turkish taboo with its description of the Armenian genocide.
Hrant Dink (1954-2007)

Ronald Grigor Suny : Armenia

A courageous editor and fervent Turkish patriot is killed in the name of nationalists intent on burying the inconvenient realities of history.

Pamuk's Prize

Maria Margaronis : Books

If Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk is a political writer, it is by virtue of his sympathy for what is old and faded, for what no longer matters, or what never did.
Ottoman Ghosts

Daniel Lazare : History

Caroline Finkel's new book, Osman's Dream, explores the rise and calamitous fall of the Ottoman Empire.
East West

Mark Mazower : European Union

Two new books explore Turkey's place in the world and what EU membership would imply for international affairs.

The War With No Name

Christian Parenti : Iraq

For twenty-five years, Kurdish guerrillas have battled the forces of the Turkish state. For a while, things began to settle down, but the US occupation of Iraq changed all that.
In Kars and Frankfurt

Orhan Pamuk : Fiction

The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature wrote this 2005 editorial in The Nation, addressing the issue of the artistic imagination at risk in a repressive state.
Before Night Falls

Stuart Klawans : Chile