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Robert Fisk: Through his own military crisis, Erdogan still defends the Armenian genocide
Why has Erdogan released the genealogy of thousands of Turks?
Robert Fisk
Only in Turkey is the identity of a citizen a matter of national security. That’s why the population registry in...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan poses with students on Monday at the Presidential Palace to mark the National Sovereignty and Children’s Day, in Ankara, Turkey.jpg
Boys stand on top of a Turkish Armed Forces vehicle as a military convoy passes by their village on the Turkish-Syrian border in Reyhanli, Hatay province, Turkey, on Oct. 11.jpg
Whirling Dervish in the historical site of Sille, Konya, Turkey. The 'dance' of the Whirling Dervishes is called Sema and is a symbol of the Mevlevi culture..jpg
Thousands of supporters of Turkey’s Republican People’s Party in Sakarya, Turkey, on Saturday. One protester called it “the biggest event in Turkish political life.”.jpg
Human rights activists hold portraits of victims during a demonstration at Sultanahmet square in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday to commemorate the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.jpg
Armenians A gardener tends to the plants at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Anjar, Lebanon, on April 17. Ethnic Armenians worldwide will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide on April 24..jpg
Erdoğan had previously compared several EU governments to Nazis after Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland banned Turkish politicians from campaigning in the run-up to the April 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum.jpg
Scribes have been a part of life in Turkey since the days of the Ottoman Empire, serving as navigators of the legal system and sources of knowledge for the community.jpg
turkey_competingvisions_finalurkey is enhancing this position with major domestic, sub-regional and trans-national infrastructure projects such as the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway..jpg
Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army soldiers celebrate around a statue of Kawa, a mythology figure in Kurdish culture as they prepare to destroy it in city center of Afrin.jpg