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... lucky enough to travel abroad, your eyes can be opened in ways that books, television and the Internet can't match. I just returned from Turkey. The trip mainly was to see the spectacular historical sites: churches and mosques in Istanbul with breathtaking art and architecture, dating back 1,600 ...
Anti-Government Protests Focus on Quality of Democracy in Turkey
Swift Spread of Protests Underline 'Wide Social Divisions' in Turkey
JEFFREY BROWN: Despite the demonstrations and the police response, there's been very little media coverage inside Turkey. Today, hundreds of protesters descended on a Turkish television station in Istanbul, accusing the network of collusion with the government. News of the events, however, spread throughout Turkey and the world on ...
Obama, Turkey's Erdogan Reaffirm Urgency of Ending Bloodshed in Syria
On his last day in Israel, President Obama brokered a diplomatic exchange for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who had not talked since before nine Turkish citizens were killed in 2010. Margaret Warner reports on Netanyahu's apology, plus the president's visit to Jordan.
As the Turkish economy grows, the country's gender gap continues to widen. Turkey's domestic violence rate has skyrocketed, leaving female victims feeling hopeless and alone. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has more on this disturbing trend as part of the NewsHour's "Agents for Change" series.
A suicide bomber set off an explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, killing a security guard. Jeffrey Brown talks with Tülin Daloglu, who is on the scene in Ankara reporting for Al-Monitor, about the secular domestic terrorist group believed responsible for the attack.
... Leon Panetta announced the new moves at an Air Force base in Turkey. DEFENSE SECRETARY LEON PANETTA: We are deploying two Patriot batteries here to Turkey, along with the troops that are necessary to man those batteries, so that we can help Turkey have the kind of missile defense it ...
JUDY WOODRUFF: We turn now to the conflict in Syria. The country's neighbor Turkey received long-sought-after defense help today from NATO. The military coalition also expressed growing concerns about the Assad regime's chemical weapons supply. In the now all-too-familiar scenes of civil war, rockets ...
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