News archive of September 2016

Generals have been apprehended but this Adil Öksüz somehow has not been caught yet. He was not only the "imam in charge of the military" of the "Fethullahist Terrorist Organization" (FETÖ), but he was also one of the leaders of the coup attempt, called the "black box." He was the one who tried to make Chief of General Staff Gen.

Washington is unhappy about Turkey's "Operation Euphrates Shield." The potential for a serious confrontation between fighters from the Peoples Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), is very real and clearly of deep concern to it.

"The reaction of the West - or its lack of reaction - to the coup seems to have pushed you to a nationalist line," a friend told me after I complained about the Western media's reporting about the situation of the press in Turkey.
Asking the right question, and the way you ask it, is crucially important in "good" journalism. 

'Felatun Bey and Rakım Efendi, An Ottoman Novel' by Ahmet Mithat Efendi, translated from the Turkish by Melih Levi and Monica M. Ringer (Syracuse University Press, 176 pages, $14.95)

First, a short story taught in diplomacy, intelligence and management academies around the world, reflecting the tense situation in Syria:

The Zeus Lepsynos Temple from the 2nd century B.C. will be revived to regain its former glory, as archaeological excavations continue in the ancient city of Euromos in the western province of Muğla's Milas district.