Turkey

While most of the attention is focused on the growing economic crisis in the country, Recep Erdoğan must deal with another serious problem: democratic dissent.

• By Gary M. Grossman

The current administration has made heavy-handed economic policy one of its main tools for influencing global politics.

• By Ian Hurley

People react and wave flags outside the Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Istanbul, on June 24th, 2018, during the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Women walk on a bridge past campaign banners with the portrait of Turkey's president in Istanbul on June 18th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A snap election in Turkey, announced earlier this month, briefly put residents of Northern Syria on edge ahead of a threatened incursion by Turkish forces. Now, it's back to life-as-usual.

• By Kenneth R. Rosen

Turkish people break their fasting in Istanbul on May 28th, 2018, during the holy month of Ramadan.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hold a joint press conference after their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on April 3rd, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Students of Mehmet Akif College hold pictures of their Turkish teachers as they demonstrate against their arrest in Pristina on March 29th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

While the region touts some of the most pro-feminism positions in the world, there are still many regressive aspects to its society.

• By Haidar Khezri

Supporters of German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel demonstrate with heart-shaped balloons during a motorcade protest on February 14th, 2018, in Berlin, Germany.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Lebanese Kurds take part in a protest near the European Commission offices in Beirut on January 28th, 2018, against the ongoing Turkish military campaign in the Kurdish-held Syrian enclave of Afrin.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A collection of our best stories for you during the holiday.

• By Ian Hurley

Despite being the period of highest demand, the rise in supply means the price of turkey tends to fall around the holiday.

• By Jay L. Zagorsky

Drumstick and Wishbone, the National Thanksgiving Turkey and its alternate "wingman," meet the press ahead of their presidential pardon at an event in Washington, D.C.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A round-up of images from Viewfinder, Pacific Standard's daily photo feature.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

People hold torches and posters of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, during a march marking the 94th anniversary of Republic Day on October 29th, 2017, in Istanbul.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The Hellenic League for Human Rights and United Nations are calling on the government to investigate what they call a coordinated attempt to deport at-risk Turkish refugees.

• By Morgan Baskin

The number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean continues to decline, but many hundreds have died already this year.

• By Morgan Baskin

Why the institutional Islamism that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pursued for decades is no protection against violent Islamism.

• By Qanta A. Ahmed

Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven on critiquing oppression—and shooting a subversive film on the run.

• By Katie Kilkenny

This year, the festival's reigning motifs are lines, waves, and knots—metaphors of evanescence in a timeless city.

• By Kaya Genç

A recent bombing in the town of Suruc has prodded Turkey into re-thinking its approach to ISIS and Syria.

• By Sarabrynn Hudgins