Nicholas Birch lived in Istanbul, Turkey, from 2002 to 2009, working as a freelancer. His work—mainly from Turkey and Iraq—has appeared in a range of publications, including the <em>Washington Post</em>, <em>Time Magazine</em>, the <em>Guardian</em> and the <em> Times Literary Supplement</em>. He was a stringer for the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> and the <em>Times of London</em> until the end of 2009. He now lives in London.

Turkey's Biggest Export

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Erdogan's Triumph

[caption id="attachment_55233327" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Secular Turks as well as conservatives have been critical of Erdogan's plans for a…

Semdinli Fighting

[caption id="attachment_55233497" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A Kurdish man holds up a flag of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)[/caption]Half…

Tenacity of Spirit

[caption id="attachment_55233686" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Retired teacher Rahim Demirbas has planted thirty-five thousand trees around his…

So-called Justice

[caption id="attachment_55233769" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Relatives of Sevil Sevimli, a 19-year-old French student of Turkish descent who…

Hierarchy in Number Plates

[caption id="attachment_55233836" align="alignnone" width="620"] Traffic in Istanbul[/caption] [inset_left]plaka [pi-LYA-ka] n. number plate…

Pointing the Finger

[caption id="attachment_55234055" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan [/caption] hedef göstermek [heh-DEF…

Kilim

[caption id="attachment_55234048" align="alignnone" width="620"] A huge blast rocks central Turkish province of Afyonkarahisar, on September 6, 2012…

A Judicial Coup

[caption id="attachment_55229590" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Prime Minister Erdogan and his AKP party may move to reduce the powers of…

Turkey's Crooked Timber

[caption id="attachment_55234332" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish soldiers arrive to the court building in Silivri on September 21, 2012 …