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Items by Zeynep Coskun Koc
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What do Trump’s Twitter account, Nikki Haley and Raza Zarrab have in common?
Iran entered the new year with protests that dominated headlines, filling the vacuum in the western media left by the holidays. It seems to have caught people by surprise that Iranians were protesting with rigor and prevalence that was certainly missing during the 2009 Green Movement. Chants of “Let...
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Why the Gulen movement is not the opposition
The night of the 15th of July has become a historical moment for Turkey. Turkish citizens, threatened by a group of Gulenist soldiers’ attempts to siege power via a coup, answered the call of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and took over the streets. The nation was fearless and did...