European Council President, Donald Tusk, meets Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on a visit to Ankara in September 2015.
Turkish President Press Office
Supporters of the campaign for Brexit claim the UK could not veto Turkish accession to the EU. We asked two academics to check the facts.
Second from left: Transparency International chair Jose Ugaz.
EPA
Follow the money behind the likes of Transparency International and a picture starts to emerge.
EPA/Sedat Suna
If you only read the Western press you may not realise the worst atrocities are committed in the Middle East and Africa.
Moria detention camp on Lesvos.
Orestis Panagiotou/EPA
A report from Lesbos, where thousands of refugees are living in inhumane conditions.
The Sykes-Picot Agreement divided up the Asiatic provinces of the Ottoman Empire into zones of direct and indirect British and French control.
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Over the years the words Sykes-Picot have taken on two meanings – one significant, the other less so.
The promise of recently explored oilfields dictated British interest in Mesopotamia (roughly, modern-day Iraq) during the Sykes-Picot Agreement negotiations.
Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani
The Sykes-Picot Agreement delivered the spoils of war to Britain and France, and deferred the dreams of Arab nationalists.
Esin
If the current pace of negotiations continues, Brexit backers needn’t worry about a new partner for decades.
Did Ashkenazi Jews descend from ancient Turkey?
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Yiddish was at one time the international language of Ashkenazic Jews, but it’s exact origin has always been somewhat unclear, until now.
Ethiopians reading newspapers in the capital Addis Ababa. The country’s media is among the most repressed on the continent.
Reuters/Tiksa Negeri
Press freedom has changed little in the past decade. If the African Union is to commit to the principles of democracy, it needs to do more to uphold freedom of expression and protects its journalists.
Where in the world do you put 4.8 million displaced people?
Muhammad Hamed/Reuters
As part of a collaboration between The Conversation and PBS’s Point Taken, a professor from The Ohio State University examines some common misconceptions about Syrian refugees.
Vahram Baghdasryan/Photolure/EPA
The Caucasus are more important and more connected today than in the 1990s, and a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan could create chaos for Europe.
Boat at Eftalou on the northern coast of Lesvos, with Turkey in the distance.
Heaven Crawley
Research with migrants suggests Europe has misunderstood what drives them to make perilous sea crossings – and what would stop them trying.
Rome’s Trevi fountain lit up with the Belgian flag. Why do some violent acts prompt global artistic memorial, but not others?
Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
From Tintin weeping to spotlit buildings, images are rapidly circulating on social media as a way of comprehending the Brussels bombings. But where was the cartoon for those who died in Ankara? Are some tragedies “ungrievable”?
Georgios Giannopoulos
European leaders are confident that sending migrants back is legal – but is it?
Egyptian refugees fleeing Libya with the help of the US Air Force.
US Department of Defence
Surely it isn’t too far-fetched to claim that if migrants are to promote democracy back home, it is beneficial for them to experience democratic values and principles in the countries hosting them.
Cracks are showing up in the growth success stories of emerging markets like Brazil.
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Debt is the reason jitters for emerging markets are now worse than during the Asian financial crisis.
EPA/Sedat Suna
A second bomb in the Turkish capital in three weeks raises the question of who are the main players in the violent struggle.
Refugees rescued off the coast of Greece.
EPA/Kay Nietfeld
How EU leaders have sidestepped the UN Refugee Convention to make a very difficult problem disappear.
EU leaders are to send refugees back to Turkey.
EPA/Yannis Kolesidis
If this cruel proposal is all EU leaders can produce in response to mass human suffering, perhaps it’s not a union worth saving.
EPA/Selman Gunes
Welcome to ‘Erdoğanistan’, where the government knows how to change a newspaper’s tune.