My feature on Turkey’s recent turmoil appears in the current issue of The Walrus. You can read the entire text online here. Also check out Carolyn Drake’s accompanying photo essay on Hasankeyf, an historic, predominantly Kurdish town in Turkey’s southeast potentially living out its last days. The entire area is slated to be flooded when […]

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Currently in Ghana, doing more research for the book and working at some magazine articles, mostly to do with food security and chieftaincy issues. Meanwhile, attending to final details on a Turkey feature I have upcoming in next issue of The Walrus.
The piece is based on research done last October and November, and then more […]

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It has finally happened, although I am tardy noting it here. The Turkish military has launched its incursion into northern Iraq, in an attempt to root out the mountain safe havens of the PKK.
The Turkish army has yet to stage a full-scale ground invasion to supplement the air strikes, and for good reason. It’s winter […]

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