Turkey
There’s much to be learned about what drove the alleged bombers at the Boston Marathon. One place to start: the contested histories and unresolved tensions in their native North Caucasus.
They love George W. Bush for liberating them, but the region's relative stability might not last.
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.
While Turkey's Kurds see hope across the border in Iraqi Kurdistan, the region's veteran transplants remain skeptical about the future of Kurdistan.
For Kurds in Iraq, Turkey's Kurdish region is famous for two things: decades of armed resistance to the Turkish state and excellent hospitals.
Turkish journalists face an unexpected constraint--abuse from their own democratic government.
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on Brazilian health care and unrest in Turkey.
He fought the Syrian government and the country's prejudice against gays. His life in danger on account of both battles, activist Mahmoud Hassino fled Syria. Where can he go now?
Syrians, many who have been tortured, escape to Turkey. In crowded clinics they struggle to make room for one another. Meanwhile Syrian refugee lawyers compile an account of abuses.
Turkish police recently raided the homes and offices of public-sector unionists, arresting 69. They were charged under Turkey's terror laws.
Syria's civil war leaves refugees with indelible scars that close the door to returning until a new Syria emerges. Cengiz Abdullah has fled Syria carrying memories of the war in his cellphone.
At least 110,000 Syrians have so far fled to camps in Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan.
Pulitzer Center grantee Stephen Franklin discusses reporting from Turkey, a country facing crises that range from internal political divisions to a massive influx of Syrian refugees on its borders.