Turkey

Neither President Recep Tayyip Erdogan nor his rival Kamal Kilicdaroglu got 50 percent of the vote. A runoff will be on May 28. What is the significance of this election?

On February 6, the powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey in the early hours of the morning was followed by another strong quake, devastating wide swaths of Turkey and neighboring Syria. So far, over 44,000 people have been killed and an estimated two million have been left homeless.

It's been just over a century since the Ottoman Empire began to systematically kill what would eventually be 1.5 million Armenians. Waves of refugees immigrated to the Bay Area, fleeing the killings. Today, tens of thousands of people of Armenian descent live here. To this day, The Turkish government continues to deny that the genocide happened, and the U.S. government refused to recognize it as well — until this year.

On the next Your Call’s Friday media roundtable, we’ll discuss Turkey’s military operation in Kurdish areas in Northern Syria. So far, at least 24 people…

After a failed coup in 2016, the Turkish government closed 169 newspapers, publishers, and TV and radio stations. Thousands of reporters lost their jobs,…

This week, we’ll discuss coverage of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's narrow referendum victory and the alarming attacks on Turkish journalists and…

It was admittedly a moment of sheer American holiday nostalgia. Cooking a turkey in India. I thought it could be a fun adventure. I just didn’t realize…

On the July 22nd edition of Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week, we’ll discuss coverage of the Turkish government’s intensified…

On the July 22nd edition of Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week, we’ll discuss coverage of the Turkish government’s intensified…

On the February 24th edition of Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with UC Berkeley sociologist Cihan Tugal about his new book “The Fall of the Turkish…