Ottoman Empire – VOXYVOTE

Long Ignored by the Western Art World, Africa’s Medieval Treasures Shine

North Africa’s influences radiated throughout Byzantium, helping to create a Golden Age. These objects are high on the beauty and rarity scale.

Egypt’s Government Is Bulldozing the City of the Dead

The dead are being exhumed and the living are being evicted to make way for President Sisi’s Pharaonic fantasies.

Are Armenians Being Ethnically Cleansed — Again?

Azerbaijan is blockading the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and people are dying.

How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power

Turkey’s president has made a spectacle of the Ottoman past, using monuments and TV shows to rally his voters. His cultural opponents have faced censorship, or jail.

A Rival for Erdogan Emerges as Opposition Parties Pick a Candidate

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of Turkey’s largest opposition party, and his allies are looking to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who they say has damaged the country’s democracy.