Turkey is one of the regional actors with ambitions to influence regional developments in Eurasia, which is geographically a very large land mass between Eastern Europe and China.

It must be emphasized at once that in the narrow sense one cannot identify an oriental carpet simply by its design. The classical method used by experts in the carpet trade is to study the weave.

While she was preparing my breakfast, I chopped off a backlog and put it on the fire, […]

However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal.