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Signing delayed for historic Armenia-Turkey agreement
The historic Saturday signing of an agreement normalizing relations between Turkey and Armenia was delayed when the Armenian delegation objected to the wording of an oral statement. “We are facilitating the two sides in coming to an agreement on the statements that they’re going to make at the ceremony,” U.S
Cab-driving shutterbug chronicles Istanbul’s underbelly
Sevket Sahintas works the night shift driving his taxi around Istanbul Turkey from midnight until dawn. His route takes him past symbols of wealth old and new: the ornate carved stone gates of a 19th-century Ottoman sultan’s palace, the gleaming high rises in the city’s rapidly growing financial district