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 Rocks
Published February 13, 2009
In the 1920's Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, forged the country in a strictly secular model, despite its largely Muslim population. Today traditional and Western influences vie for the hearts and minds of youth. Nowhere is this more apparent than in popular music here in Istanbul, the city that literally bridges Europe and Asia.
Produced by: Iason Athanasiadis and Sevin Turan
Videographer: Gokhan Acun
Editor: Seyfettin Tokmak
With support from the Stanley Foundation's Rising Powers project. Learn more at: risingpowers.stanleyfoundation.org/
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In an article on how he brings foreign news reporting to new audiences, photojournalist Iason Athanasiadis pays tribute to the Pulitzer Center for funding his past reporting projects in Iran, Turke
Iason Athanasiadis will be speaking at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale on October 12 at 10 a.m. in Quigley 208. Iason has reported for the Pulitzer Center from Greece, Turkey and Iran.
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Iason Athanasiadis is a freelance writer, photographer and television producer covering the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Based out of Cairo, Damascus, Doha,Tehran and Istanbul since 1999, he...
