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Harun Küçük on the Turkish elections
Supporters of Turkish President Erdogan wave Turkish flags in the street at night after his runoff win.

Supporters of the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrate outside AK Party offices in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 28, 2023. Turkey’s incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared victory in his country’s runoff election, extending his rule into a third decade.

(Image: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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    • Harun Küçük on the Turkish elections

    Harun Küçük, faculty director of the Middle East Center and associate professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, shares some takeaways from the runoff elections and what five more years of Erdogan means for Turkey and the world.

    Kristen de Groot

    Time of reckoning for Sinn Féin

    Time of reckoning for Sinn Féin

    In a letter to the editor, Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the successful implementation of a referendum in favor of Irish reunification requires careful thought about how to reduce the numbers of those who would find losing “almost impossible to accept.”

     

    War and welfare in colonial Algeria
    A snowy field of marked gravestones, with yew hedges and a large obelisk in the background

    The ossuary of Douaumont is a memorial to the soldiers of the Battle of Verdun of 1916, located on the border of the communes of Douaumont and Fleury-devant-Douaumont, a few kilometers from Verdun. It houses the remains of 130,000 unknown soldiers, French and Germans. In front of the ossuary, the national necropolis of Douaumont gathers 16,142 graves of French soldiers, mainly Catholic, including a square of 592 steles of Muslim soldiers.

    (Image: Sipa via AP Images)

    War and welfare in colonial Algeria

    A new paper from political scientist Melissa M. Lee finds that veteran benefits were distributed unequally between citizens and colonized subjects.

    Kristina García

    Three things to know about the debt ceiling fight
    A person is seen walking in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street.

    People pass the front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on March 22, 2023. Brinkmanship in Washington over raising the U.S. debt ceiling has begun to raise worries in parts of the financial markets.

     (Image: AP Photo/Peter Morgan, file)

    Three things to know about the debt ceiling fight

    Economist Harold L. Cole of the School of Arts & Sciences offers an overview of what could happen should the U.S. default on debt payments because no spending deal is reached.

    Kristen de Groot

    ‘Catholics in the North have their destiny in own hands for the first time,’ expert on Irish unity says

    ‘Catholics in the North have their destiny in own hands for the first time,’ expert on Irish unity says

    At an event to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences said that Irish political leaders must not make the same mistakes as British leaders with Brexit when the time comes for unification.

    Reconsidering world heritage for the modern era
    Archaeological site filled with stacked, dusty, aged bricks and surrounded by rocks..

    The Archaeological Complex of Pachacamac, listed for the UNESCO Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System, Peru.

    (Image: Lynn Meskell)

    Reconsidering world heritage for the modern era

    Through recent research, archaeologist and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Lynn Meskell has continued to highlight how World Heritage Sites have become flashpoints for conflict and out of touch with local communities.