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The Hizmet project is a private educational initiative and diplomacy instrument that has morphed from a point of pride for the Turkish government into a threat.
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CPD student intern Sarah Schornstein reflects on her trip to Turkey and how the U.S. can learn from Turkey's history by acknowledging its own diverse past and common identity.
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CPD Contributing Scholar Senem Cevik notes how period dramas on Turkish television have been used as tools of both diplomacy and domestic communication.
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Turkey's Yunus Emre Institute has established a new science diplomacy project, writes Halid Bulut, Executive Director of the Yunus Emre Foundation in Washington, D.C.
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Halid Bulut, Executive Director of the Yunus Emre Institute, shows how archery is no longer used for warfare, but for diplomacy.