May 11, 2012

Wrestling with Free Speech, Religious Freedom, and Democracy in Turkey: The Political Trials and Times of Fethullah Gulen

K. Adamson

Review of James C. Harrington’s Wrestling with Free Speech, Religious Freedom, and Democracy in Turkey: The Political Trials and Times of Fethullah Gulen. 2011. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 185pp. ISBN 978 0 7618 5461 6.

Turkish schools in Kyrgyzstan mark 20th year anniversary

The Kyrgyz children danced and sang. They wore traditional clothes and got in touch with their Turkic roots. In the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek at the newly opened Bishkek Opera and Ballet Theatre joint Kyrgyz and Turkish schools held a 20 year anniversary celebration to mark their opening.