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September 17, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Crimea: The New Normal
Crimean officials ramp up homophobic rhetoric.
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Eurasia
September 12, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Housing Laws in Istanbul: Safety First?
Recent legislation in Turkey allows for new methods of urban transformation—and government intervention—in Istanbul's housing development.
September 11, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Syrian Refugees: The Koksal Family
Just one family of thousands forced to flee Syria after the eruption of war, the Koksals illustrate the tremendous hardships and complexities of the refugee population in Turkey.
September 10, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Russia: Heroin Use and Aids Epidemic in the Shadows
Neglect and denial. According to Russian public health activists that's the Russian government’s strategy for tackling the challenge of HIV.
September 05, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Housing in Istanbul: 100 Percent User Satisfaction?
The Başıbüyük neighborhood in Istanbul offers two extremes of housing: shining new highrises and the rapidly disappearing squatter settlements of a previous generation.
August 27, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Istanbul: A City Transformed
The squatter settlements known as "Gecekondu" are quickly disappearing in Istanbul, a city that is being transformed through government intervention, historic renewal, and mass housing projects.
July 16, 2014 | Harper's Magazine
Turkey: What the Camera Saw
Multiple cameras recorded the moment of Turkish protester Ahmet Atakan's death, but does the footage prove anything?
March 18, 2014 | The New Yorker
Grief and Outrage in Turkey
Two deaths in Turkey reveal a deeply divided country.
March 17, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Armenia On the Big Screen: An Interview with Sona Tatoyan
An artist asks, "Why were we Armenian, but living in the U.S? Why was our family in Syria? What were these family stories of exile and slaughter? Why weren’t they in the history books of my youth?"
February 27, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
LGBT Activism in a Provincial Russian City
A small group of LGBT activists tries to change the situation in one of Russia's most homophobic cities.
February 24, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
An Attack on an LGBT Gathering in Saint Petersburg
Dmitry Chizhevsky came to a Rainbow Coffee party in Saint Petersburg, an LGBT gathering. Little did he know that a few moments later he would lose his eye in an attack.
November 04, 2013 | Foreign Policy
On the Edge of Siberia's Dark Blue Heart
Majority of Russians say that Lake Baikal should be the symbol of Russia. But in monotown Baikalsk hundreds of workers who lost their jobs this month say they feel cheated by Moscow.