Turkey's uncertain terrain

Spring: Journeying west to east as ideas and identities struggle to take root in the Asian arc of Turkey.

Turkey

As the question of European Union membership looms, a land divided by identity and ideas remains at a cultural crossroads.

Amid the ancient, a dynamic pulse emerges.

It has been nearly 30 years since the release of the film "Midnight Express," which fictionalizes the nightmare...
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