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Jody Sabral

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A woman shouts slogans during a demonstration to mark the International Women's Day in the Asian side of Istanbul March 6, 2010. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY) — A woman shouts slogans during a demonstration to mark the International Women's Day in the Asian side of Istanbul March 6, 2010. — REUTERS/Osman Orsal

A mother and her covered child pass a secular woman outside Fatih Mosqe in central Istanbul on Saturday October 6, 2007. Women's rights groups have been angered after a leaked draft of the new constitution states that it will change " The present constitution obliges the government to ensure equality for all - a clause that women's groups fought hard to include. The new draft removes that, and describes women as a vulnerable group in need of special protection. The new constitution will also likely lift the

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Journalists and their supporters gather outside the Justice Palace to protest against the detention of journalists in Istanbul December 26, 2011. A Turkish court on Monday hold the second hearing in case of 13 defendants, including journalists Nedim Sener and Ahmet Sik, who are accused of links to a group accused of plotting to overthrow the government. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)

Turkey’s Democratic Doublespeak

A protester holds a banner reading "we are alevi" as he and many others wait to hear the decision of the court in front of a courthouse in Ankara March 13, 2012. Turkish police fired tear-gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds protesting on Tuesday against the dropping of a case against five people charged with killing 37 writers and liberals in a 1993 hotel fire set off by Islamist rioters.The opposition accused Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his AK Party, which emerged from a series of banned Islami

Turkey's Alevis Disillusioned By Erdogan-Style Democracy

Coffins of victims killed in air strikes are carried by villagers during a funeral ceremony in Gulyazi near the southeastern Turkish town of Uludere, in Sirnak province, December 30, 2011. Turkish rights groups called on Friday for a U.N.-sponsored investigation after Turkish warplanes killed 35 villagers in an airstrike targeting Kurdish rebels on the Iraqi border that the government has called an operational mistake. REUTERS/Stringer (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR2VQMI

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In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture