In These Times
Women in Afghanistan want their children to be safe and fed. They want a government that protects them against sectarian violence. But none of this is in sight, and soon the Americans will be gone.
With Turkey positioning itself for a greater voice in the region and with many viewing it as a model for the emerging democracies of the Arab Spring, its poor human rights record raises questions.
Turkish journalists face an unexpected constraint--abuse from their own democratic government.
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.
A woman was being carried down the road in a bed.
A new civil war between Shiites erupts within the old civil war between Sunnis and Shiites