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Kurds and (the Turkish) Way
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[New York Times (blog)] - By ANDREW FINKEL. ISTANBUL — When I first started covering Turkey in the early 1990s, my foreign colleagues and I were sometimes mocked for referring to the brewing resentment in southeastern Turkey as “the Kurdish problem.” There was no sectarian
Witness to a Fading Lifestyle on the Anatolian Plain
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[New York Times] - The exhibit also includes rare video footage of Ms. Powell, being interviewed by the Istanbul-based journalist Andrew Finkel on behalf of the Textile Museum in Washington in To symbolize Ms. Powell's fascination with weaving, Ms. Hart said, the
The Drumbeat of Ramadan
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[New York Times (blog)] - By ANDREW FINKEL. ISTANBUL — It is the holy month of Ramadan and, just before twilight, my Istanbul neighborhood fills with an intoxicating smell from the two wood-fire oven bakeries feverishly producing loaf after crusty loaf of seasonal bread. There
Andrew Finkel - Latitude Blog - The New York Times
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· By Andrew Finkel. ISTANBUL — “Goat droppings” is the polite translation for a graphic Turkish expression that describes something insipid: The idea is that goat pellets are relatively inoffensive, lacking the quality of real dung.
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