Turkey

Aliev Illness Galvanises Opposition

As President Heidar Aliev looks set to mark his 80th birthday in a Turkish hospital, the Azerbaijani opposition is weighing its options.

9 May 03

High unemployment in Georgia spawns rogue job centres which rob their customers.

9 May 03

Dramatic proof of president's shaky health raises doubts as to whether he can really seek a third term in office this autumn.

25 Apr 03

Thousands of Kurds forced to leave Nagorny Karabakh a decade ago find themselves under threat once more.

11 Apr 03

Tbilisi is beginning to try to combat the steady loss of its artistic heritage.

3 Apr 03

Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia support United States to various degrees, but worry about war's impact on their own region.

20 Mar 03

A row over leadership of the Azerbaijani football federation is virtually shutting down the whole national game

27 Feb 03

Chechen refugees fear they will be the losers in Georgia's campaign to clear the Pankisi Gorge of Islamic militants.

30 Jan 03

Georgia's pledge to allow the return of Meskhetian Turks has provoked widespread public opposition.

23 Jan 03

Forgotten by the outside world, 36 leprosy sufferers are fading away quietly in the small Azerbaijani village of Umbaki.

17 Jan 03

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