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Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89.

People of the world should "acquire the ability to co-exist" as they are closely interdependent to each other in the modern day in the face of intertwined threats, daily Hürriyet Chairwoman Vuslat Doğan Sabancı has said.

BELGRADE - The sixth Belgrade Security Forum, where politicians and experts from the region and Europe will discuss whether democracy will survive the crisis of the world order, began in Belgrade Wednesday.

If a task turns out to be much easier than expected, this may be pleasing to those concerned, but it also raises uneasy questions in some minds and provides fodder for conspiracy theorists. Take Turkey's military operation in Syria against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

English-speaking universities continue to dominate the world, according to a new ranking from the Times Higher Education (THE) supplement released on Thursday.

The Global Freedom of Expression Prize issued by U.S.'s prestigious Columbia University has been awarded to two academics and a lawyer from Turkey for their "excellence in legal services" after making a successful appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the grounds of censorship, after Turkey banned access to the video-sharing website. 

 I came to the "capital of the world" for a panel at Columbia University on a new and highly interesting book: "The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions." Penned by the prominent academic Michael Walzer, it is a book that explains how the secular parties that founded most post-colonial states were soon challenged and even defeated by a religious revival.

"Freedom of expression and free media constitute two imperative tools in fostering a meaningful debate on security issues," says Dunja Mijatovic.

This is also necessary to "effectively address new security challenges," the OSCE representative on Freedom said delivering the Annual Harriman Lecture at Columbia University.

Ömer Koç, the vice president of the executive board at Koç Holding, has been named the new chairman of the conglomerate, more than a month after the passing of his brother Mustafa Koç from a sudden heart attack. 

One of the most important pieces in Turkish painting, 'Cami Önü' (the front of the mosque), by Ottoman artist Osman Hamdi, is set to be sold for a record price at an upcoming auction A masterpiece by the late-Ottoman artist Osman Hamdi Bey looks set to go for a record price at an upcoming spring sale, according to a local auction house.