Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.

Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.

Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.

Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.

After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.