It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.
With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico.
The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.
I'm really happy to have been part of spreading the game of basketball and growing the game in a place like Turkey.
'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.
