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Top human rights prize targeted by Qatargate corruption suspects
Suspects allegedly interfered with EU Sakharov Prize nominations to help foreign governments, leaked police files suggest. The EU’s…
The Spy Who Started Café Culture: A Secret Polish History
Rather than ‘shaken, not stirred’, one 17th-century Polish spy would likely ask: ‘Black or with milk?’ Jerzy Kulczycki…
Kemaliye: Turkish City Named After Founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
The whole country would have wanted to bear his name but he would never have accepted, a retired…
The History of the Jews of Turkey
Jews escaping Spain due to the Expulsion had few doors open to them. Although legends discuss Jews escaping…