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In Turkey these days the culture war raging between secularists and moderate Islamists grabs much of the attention. But in Istanbul, there is a second front to the culture war, one that centers on...

Spluttering and coughing, an unusual crop of vehicles in the villages of central Turkey are gaining attention and a following. The cheap and noisy motorized carts are called paht-pahts or tak-taks...

Outside a city administration building in Ashgabat, the gold bust and the color poster face off. Neatly parted hair, bushy eyebrows, fleshy faces – Turkmenistan’s presidents, old and new, appear...

As an economist studying the relationship between oil companies and governments in former Soviet countries, Heidi Kjaernet noticed an incongruity. The general theory, Kjaernet says, states that...