He's a translator of Turkish literature.

Have you ever tried Turkish food?

With the campaign dragging on for months, the referendum has thoroughly polarized Turkish politics.

It was during this period that the island was fully Hellenized.

The grand vision is to integrate Iraqi Kurdistan into the Turkish economy.

Yet, no sooner had the blogger arrived in Turkey than disaster struck.

Poland was one of the first countries to recognize the Republic of Turkey.

Foley had employed a translator to help him travel across the Syrian Turkish border.

More alarmingly, some commentators liken Turkey s neighborhood policy to a revival of Ottoman imperialism.

Currently, the island is split down ethnic lines between an internationally recognized Greek Cypriot south and a breakaway Turkish Cypriot north, the result of Turkey's invasion in 1974 following a military coup in Cyprus that aimed for Greece to annex it and therefore unify the two.

The EU now accounts for 75 of foreign investment in Turkey and roughly half its exports and inward tourism.

Do they wish to extend to the Turkish Northern Cyprus the evident benefits that they derive from membership in the European Union, which came in 2004?

We noticed the long running horror story again when the Israeli Defense Forces attacked a Turkish flotilla, carrying relief supplies, in May, with nine civilian fatalities.

Everyone in the new republic who was not explicitly defined as a member of an officially recognized minority was supposed to merge into a new Turkish identity.

Of course, crossing the Green Line that separates the Greek and Turkish parts of the city is nothing like crossing Berlin s infamous Checkpoint Charlie.

Military projections by the US have repeatedly suggested that Azerbaijan would lose such a battle, even with newly purchased equipment and Turkish military support.

Since these missiles could in theory attack Turkish aircraft in Turkish airspace, the Turks in response have implied that their deployment might be a casus belli.

The main route for citizens leaving the country is through Iran, then over the mountainous Iranian Turkish border, and onto Greece, where thousands are effectively trapped and prevented from journeying on to other European countries.

This does not mean that Turkey will return to its traditional strategic dependence on the US and its allies, an approach that defined Turkish foreign policy throughout the Cold War and the decade following it.

It was also a clear departure from the conventional foreign policy straightjacket devised by Kemal Ataturk, which had for decades forced Turkish diplomacy into the Procrustean bed of 1920 s style integral nationalism.

Moreover, while Kemal Ataturk restored Turkish national pride by creating the secular Turkish republic, his legacy is mixed, for it includes both Turkey s strong attraction to the West and a militarization of public life.

I m also someone who listens to Turkish and Azerbaijani music, reads books by authors from both of those countries, and finally a person who supports every genuine initiative that will lead to peace and a resolution of the conflict which keeps others apart.

But for the past two decades the division of Cyprus has been physical and military, ever since the Turkish government in 1974 sent troops to the north, and helped create a separate so called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).