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By Vali Nasr, the Majid Khadduri professor of Middle East studies and international affairs at Johns Hopkins University’s ...

Turkey arrested and extradited to the UAE the three Uzbek men who are suspected of murdering Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a 28-year-old ...

was the first president of the Republic of Turkey, from 1923 to 1938. He is remembered for creating a modernized, secular Turkish state. (photo: Library of Congress) Kurdish nationalism -- the ...