Ethnic groups in Turkey

INTERVIEW: Cuma Çiçek on national, religious and economic fissures among Turkey's Kurds

Kurdish politics in Turkey and elsewhere is a notoriously complicated acronym soup of allied and competing groups. "The Kurds of Turkey: National, Religious and Economic Identities" by Cuma Çiçek charts a course through this bewildering landscape, complicating simple, homogenous ideas of "the Kurds." 

Terror and politics

The unending visits to the "Martyrs' Hill," the spot in Istanbul's Beşiktaş district where 44 people were killed in a bomb attack on Dec. 10, show the sensitivity that people from all parts of society have demonstrated against terror. That is the most important factor in our fight against terrorism.  

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