Tag: Turkish

Why there is no Kurdish nation

Why there is no Kurdish nation

by | Jul 27, 2023 | | 0

Reading time: 6 minutes
In a series of conferences in a succession of European palaces, Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau of France, Woodrow Wilson and dozens of other leaders conspired, harangued and horse-traded from 1919 to 1921. Under clouds of cigar smoke, between servings of foie gras and champagne, they redrew a large swath of the globe’s map.

Their guiding principle for redrawing the map, at least in most cases, was the reigning concept of race nationalism, what’s often called today ethno-nationalism.

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Twelve days at Anzac: the evacuation

Twelve days at Anzac: the evacuation

by | Apr 25, 2022 | | 0

Over one hundred years ago, one of the most remarkable operations in military history occurred at the Dardanelles with the evacuation in December 1915 of 83,000 Australian, New Zealand, British and Indian troops from the Gallipoli Peninsula without a single loss of life. It will, as, one contemporary German correspondent reporting from the Turkish lines exclaimed, ‘stand before the eyes of all strategists as a hitherto unattained masterpiece’.

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How Cyprus Became Divided

How Cyprus Became Divided

by | Nov 18, 2021 | | 0

Reading time: 8 minutes
Cyprus is a country that on paper is whole, but in reality is divided into several parts. Greeks, Turks, Cypriots and the United Kingdom have all staked claims on the island, with the UN in the middle, doing their best to maintain the peace. But what made Cyprus into an island of lines?

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How a Cyprus Museum Uses Tech to Make the Past Come Alive

How a Cyprus Museum Uses Tech to Make the Past Come Alive

by | Nov 3, 2021 | , | 0

What do you do when a building important to your city’s history is inaccessible? When you can see it, but simply cannot get anywhere near it? This is the question facing the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus and one of the last few divided cities in the world. One group of researchers seems to have found a solution, using cutting edge tech.

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Why Do We Like to Get Drunk?

Why Do We Like to Get Drunk?

by | Aug 11, 2021 | | 0

Reading time: 4 minutes
Why do humans like to get drunk? Scientists have written off our affinity for intoxication as an evolutionary mistake, a trick that humans have developed for gaming our biological reward system into releasing little shots of pleasure for no good reason. This, however, is not a satisfying explanation. It should puzzle us more than it does that we have devoted so much ingenuity and concentrated effort to getting drunk.

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