New Book on Forced Turkification of Jews, Their Fight against Anti-Semitism, and Turkish-Jewish Leadership Lobbying against Recognition of Arme...
Syrian orthodox fight for their rights in Turkey
TURKEY AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: WOOING CHRISTIANS DIYARBAKIR AND MARDIN Some, but not all, want to improve the lot of Christians in Turkey IT IS well kn...
Maaloula, Syria: Where the language of Jesus lives on
By Steven V. Roberts We were standing in the courtyard of St. Sergius, a Greek Catholic monastery in the Syrian hill town of Maaloula, about an hour n...
Peace high on Gazans’ Christmas wish list
By Omar Karmi GAZA CITY // Father Jorge Hernandez was busy and distracted. Yesterday was the third day he had spent composing his Christmas sermon, an...
Repatriation of Meskhetian Turks: An issue to be handled with care
By Richard Rousseau In another life I worked in Kazakhstan where, according to some estimates, more than 90,000 Meskhetian Turks live. On...
Laz and other minority radio stations in Turkey
Voices of the nation hit Turkish airwaves By Thomas Seibert Foreign Correspondent of “The National” ISTANBUL // As Turkey rapidly changes ...
The Lezgins in Azerbaijan
Analysis: Does Azerbaijan Face A New Irredentist Threat? By Liz Fuller Two separate recent developments have served to focus attention on the potentia...
Ancient Christian community in decline In Azerbaijan
By Farman Nabiev, Sadyq Fataliev and Fidan Mamedova in NijInstitute for War and Peace Reporting, UK June 28 2007 The Udi p...
Shiite models, Christian neighbors wanted in Beirut
By Kerry Sheridan BEIRUT — The classified ads appeal for fresh Shiite faces at a modeling agency. The parking lots are marked ̶...
Georgia's Armenian and Azeri minorities
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Georgia is a multinational state, building democratic institutions and forging a civic identity. H...