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Vanishing Ottoman names for West European countries, languages, and peoples in Turkish:The most commonly-used Turkish word historically to refer to West Europeans, "frenk" (from "frangos" in Greek, meaning Catholic), has

How Turkey and Greece exchanged their populations?In 1923-24, Turkey and Greece exchanged their Orthodox and Muslim populations, respectively, using not ethnicity or self-identification but religious marker as the criterion for

I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin brokered ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Here’s why:Frozen conflict between AR & AZ in South Caucasus allows Russia maintain military presence there under the