Turkey: Country Profile, Briefings and Latest Issues

The Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia: Brief history and description.

Is Turkey guilty of committing genocide against Armenians at the beginning of the 20th century? You decide.

Profile of Mehmet Ali Agca, Pope John Paul II's would-be assassin, who was freed from a Turkish prison in January 2010.

Brief history and explanation of Turkey's Valley of the Wolves (Kurtlar Vadisi) television franchise and Iraq-related movie.

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Obama in Istanbul: of mist and poetry.

Country profile of Cyprus, the Mediterranean island nation divided since 1974 between Greek-backed and Turkish-backed Cypriots.

Definition of Dunam, or Dunum, the measure of landholdings in the Ottoman Empire and Palestine/Israel.

The genocide of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks and Kurds between 1915 and 1923 is one of the 20th century's earliest mass atrocities. Turkey has never owned up to the genocide. To this day, Turkey not only denies that a genocide took place. It prosecutes those in Turkey who claim it has and bullies other nations against acknowledging the genocide ion their official pronouncements--a…

It's a "controversy" only in Turkey, which denies the Armenian genocide to this day. Here are the facts and evidence of the 1915-1916 genocide in which 1.5 million Armenians perished.

Text of the U.S. House Resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide.

A statement by Barack Obama on "The importance of US-Armenian Relations" and the Armenian Genocide, delivered Jan. 19, 2008.

A statement by Barack Obama on "The importance of US-Armenian Relations" and the Armenian Genocide, delivered Jan. 19, 2008.

Full text of joint declaration by England, France and Russia condemning Ottoman Turkey for its genocide of Armenians as "crimes against humanity."

On Nov. 15, 1983, Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash declared the Turkish part of Cyprus an independent republic. On Nov. 18, 1983, the United Nations Security Council condemned the land grab with UN Resolution 541.

On Sept. And on Sept. 6, 2008, Turkish President Abdullah Gul traveled to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, at Armenian President Serge Sargsyan’s invitation, and attended a soccer match between Turkey and Armenia, ending a century of enmity over Turkey's genocide of Armenians during Turkey's Ottoman period.

Your Guide to the 2008 Beijing Olympics for Turkey: TurkeyÂ’s Olympic history and country profile, and TurkeyÂ’s athletes at the 2008 Olympics by name and by sport, or game.

Since 1980, Turkish students have been banned from wearing the Islamic head scarf in schools and universities. Leila Sahin challenged the ban. She lost in court, but won politically.

Born into a poor, rural family, Recep Tayyip Erdogan rapidly rose to power on the strength of Turkey's increasingly powerful Islamist electorate. Read a full profile of Erdogan's rise and politics.

Orhan Pamuk, by far Turkey's most popular novelist, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2006--and stirred a major controversy in his home country over his comments about the Turkish genocide of Armenians and Turkish killings of Kurds.

What is Kurdistan? Who are the Kurds? Where are they located? What are they after? And is Iraqi Kurdistan the first step toward an independent Kurdish nation?

To this day Turkey denies that it ever engaged in genocide against Armenians around 1915. But despite several U.S. presidents' acknowledging the genocide by word at one time or another, the U.S. Congress remains incapable of passing a resolution condemning the genocide--thanks to Turkish pressure.

Turkey is a country of contradictions: Politically European and secular but culturally Asian and Islamic, a member of NATO at loggerheads with other NATO members like the United States and Greece and a powerful economy still teetering on the edge of chaos.

From Morocco to Iraqi Kurdistan, the Middle East scores six spots out of The New York Times' 41 best travel spots and places to go in 2011.