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With a recent book, the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) has memorialized the first chapter of its decades-long contribution to labor movement: “If the historical memory of an organization disappears, its identity disappears as well.”

All current historical renovation-restoration efforts account to the reinvention of a neo-Ottoman eclectic style," said Edhem Eldem, history professor at Boğaziçi University.

Ministers Veysel Eroğlu and Mehmet Şimşek met with protests during a visit they paid to Hasankeyf, an ancient city in the southeastern province of Batman dating back to at least 12,000 years ago and that is to be inundated under a dam reservoir, causing irreversible damage to history and nature.

Turkey’s first bi-monthly magazine on Kurdish history has hit the bookshelves. Published in Turkish, “Kürt Tarihi” (“Kurdish History”) delves into the annals of the Kurdish past, long overlooked by official institutions engaged in historiography.