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July 27, 2017 | The Atlantic
Why Germany's New Muslims Go to Mosque Less
Far from trying to “Islamicize” the country, some Syrian refugees find its version of Islam too conservative for their taste.
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Turkey
January 30, 2017 | The New Yorker
Europe's Migrant Trail, Through the Instagrams of Refugees
Following the “digital breadcrumbs” left by refugees on social media.
January 23, 2017 | Roads & Kingdoms
Continental Rift: Searching for the Real Border Between East and West in Istanbul
Where's the Real Border Between Europe and Asia?
January 10, 2017 | WNYC Radio
The Business of Exploiting Suffering Refugees
Journalists Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie discuss their project in the HuffingtonPost Highline, “The 21st Century Gold Rush: How the refugee crisis is changing the world economy."
December 23, 2016 | Huffington Post
The 21st Century Gold Rush: How the Refugee Crisis Is Changing the World Economy
These are the stories of the CEOs, criminal masterminds, pencil-pushers and low-flying vultures who have figured out how to profit from global instability, also known as human suffering.
September 11, 2016 | The New York Review of Books
A Murderous Turning Point in Turkey
July 15, when the supporters of President Erdogan foiled a coup attempt against him, may have been a turning point in Turkish history, opening the way to despotism but entrenching civilian rule.
September 04, 2016 | The Guardian
Welcome to Demokrasi: How Erdogan Got More Popular than Ever
It's commonly argued that President Erdogan's regime is a perversion of democratic norms. In fact, in the light of burgeoning populism around the world, his demokrasi is the new normal.
August 06, 2016 | The New York Review of Books
Turkey Chooses Erdogan
Visiting Turkey in the aftermath of the failed coup of July 15, 2016, Christopher de Bellaigue found the country in a state of collective hyperventilation.
July 26, 2016 | Herald (Pakistan)
The Perils of Pakistani Migrants Heading to Europe
Beginning in April this year, Greece began deporting asylum seekers. Many of the deportees are Pakistani, in contradiction to the 1951 Refugee Convention.
May 17, 2016 | PRI's The World
Trapped in Greece, These Refugees Wait, Just Before Another Frontier
An agreement between the European Union and Turkey, which took effect on March 20, severely limits the options of Syrian refugees.
December 03, 2015 | The New York Review of Books
The Sultan of Turkey
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a skillful political operator who guided his AK Party to victory in the recent elections. But at what cost to his country's fragile social fabric?
October 29, 2015 | The Guardian
The Battle for Turkey: Can Selahattin Demirtas Pull the Country Back From the Brink of Civil War?
The charismatic Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş holds the key to whether Turks and Kurds can live in peace.
Opportunity and Oppression in a Divided Kurdistan
Iraq's Kurds are in business while Turkey and its own Kurdish population are at war. Will success in Iraqi Kurdistan ease tension in Turkey, or will it break an ethnic bond?
Life After Prison: Kurdish Stone-Throwing Kids
While Turkey positions itself as a model for the "moderate" Islamic world, its Kurdish "stone-throwing kids"—imprisoned as terrorists—are at a crossroads between integration and radicalization.
Sex and the State: Islamist Governance, Turkey’s Sex Workers
Sex work in Turkey has long been legal, provided it takes place in state-licensed brothels. But over the past decade, AKP-affiliated officials have closed them down, leaving women on the street.
A Turkish Dilemma
A resurgent Turkey is shifting from a linchpin of the Western system to an independent-minded actor dominating the world's key geopolitical intersection, between Europe, the Middle East and Caucasus.
Turkey's regional might is greater today than at any other point since the formation of the modern Turkish...
April 18, 2012 | Meet the Journalist
Jenna Krajeski: The Story of the Kurdish Stone-Throwing Kids
Pulitzer Center grantee Jenna Krajeski talks about how she became interested in the Kurdish "stone-throwing kids"--children imprisoned as adults under Turkey's harsh anti-terror laws.
June 07, 2013
Grantees in Istanbul Offer Takes on Turkey's Protests
Pulitzer Center grantees Jenna Krajeski and Dimiter Kenarov – both of whom are based in Istanbul – answer a few quick need-to-know questions about what’s happening in Turkey now.
February 01, 2013 | General news
This Week in Review: Game Changer
On the surface, Poland would not seem to have much in common with Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. But dig beneath the surface in both places and you find shale gas, a potential source of cheap energy.
January 11, 2013 | General news, Project news
This Week in Review: Trouble With the Truth
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week reporting on human rights in Turkey and Cuba.
September 14, 2012 | General news
This Week in Review: Russian Icebreakers
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting, from nuclear-powered icebreakers in Russia to trampled human rights in Turkey.
August 03, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: The Brazilian Model
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on Brazilian health care and unrest in Turkey.
July 20, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: The Heat Wave That's Here to Stay
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from Ecuador to Syria.
June 22, 2012 | General news, Project news
This Week in Review: The New Conquistadors
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from Panama to Pakistan.
May 18, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: War and Chocolate
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from Ivory Coast and Turkey.
March 16, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: What Kony Left Behind
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Ghana and Turkey.
January 27, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: Growing Up in Murder City
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights reporting on Los NiNis of Ciudad Juarez and the gentrification of Istanbul's Kurdish neighborhoods.
January 06, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: Youth in Revolt
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights the latest Pulitzer Center reporting from Nigeria and Turkey.
October 07, 2011 | News Points
This Week in Review: Youngsters Jailed as Terrorists
Tom Hundley recaps the Pulitzer Center's week, highlighting a new series of Untold Stories from grantee Jenna Krajeski who is reporting on Kurdish youngsters jailed on harsh anti-terrorism laws.