Turkey

Turkey’s ‘Standing Man’ protester participated in Kennedy Center program

19 Jun 2013

Performance artist Erdem Gunduz visited Washington and New York in 2007 for the arts education program.

Comparison of mass protests in Brazil and Turkey

19 Jun 2013

Large-scale protests have engulfed Turkey and Brazil, which are thousands of miles apart, but share some traits such as being new democracies with a growing middle class. Here's a look at the protests ...

Turkey's economy is vulnerable

19 Jun 2013

By Hugo Dixon LONDON, June 17 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Tayyip Erdogan seems to like the concept of "choking" things. At the weekend, Turkey's prime minister sent riot police into an Istanbul park with tear gas and water cannons to clear out the protesters. A week earlier, he had threatened to "choke" an alleged "high-interest-rate lobby" of speculators who wanted to push interest rates up and ...