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The world is so crazy these days that if you enunciate unpopular truths, people who are supposed to be moral authorities will pressure you to retract and apologize. A Roman Catholic priest in Ilhan Omars Minnesota, the Rev. Nick VanDenBroeke, has been compell…

Supporters of Armenia's popular opposition leader attend a rally in downtown Yerevan on April 26, ... 2018. VANO SHLAMOV/AFP via Getty Images As Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey join together and engage in major infrastructure projects, such as the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, to revive their historic role as a land bridge between…

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Saker blog, Under the cascading roar of the 24/7 news cycle cum Twitter eruptions, its easy for most of the West, especially the US, to forget the basics about the interaction of Eurasia with its western peninsula, Europe. A…

The Muslim American Society-Islamic Circle of North America (MAS-ICNA) 2019 convention held in Chicago last month reveals the Illinois Islamists’ ties with the autocratic Turkish regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and how Erdogan uses U.S. Islamists organizations as an arm of his foreign policy. One of the main convention…

Freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is often presented in the press as the quintessential Muslim American, representing the values of an increasingly politically active class of voters who cling to their religious convictions while embracing progressive activism.  She has unilaterally established the boundaries of appropriate discussion among Muslims, labeling any topic…

Beautiful coastlines, fascinating archaeological sites, and a vibrant blend of cultures make Turkey, a country straddling Europe and Asia, one of the world’s most unique destinations. However, nearly all of its best-known tourist sites — Istanbul, the Ephesus ruins, Mediterranean seaside towns — lie in the country’s west. In comparison,…

This is the Cosmic Ray Research Station on Armenia's Mount Aragats. The station sits at an altitude of 3,200 meters -- more than one-third the height of Mount Everest. The site was constructed in 1943 as a place for top-secret research into atomic reactions …

One day Constantinople will be conquered. Great is the commander who will conquer it. Great are his soldiers. On January 24, Netflix is releasing a six-part docudrama series, Rise of Empires: Ottoman, that charts the rise of the legendary 15th-century Ottoma…

Azerbaijan is considering plans to join French military efforts in Africa's Sahel region, according to one of the country's top official, as France looks to EU allies to shore up local forces who are being increasingly targeted by deadly jihadist attacks. "A…

Slain Turkish-Armenian journalist commemorated in Istanbul