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Beneath Turkey's turmoil is a bitter battle between two wounded men | Fiachra Gibbons
Fiachra Gibbons: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's abuse of power is being exposed by the equally intimidating exiled spiritual leader Fethullah Gülen

Fiachra Gibbons

03, Jan, 2014 @8:59 AM

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What is France for? Standing up to Amazon | Fiachra Gibbons
Fiachra Gibbons: French deputies have voted to stop aggressive online discounting to save bookshops. What a positive 'non'

Fiachra Gibbons

08, Oct, 2013 @11:00 AM

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Erdoğan's chief adviser knows what's behind Turkey's protests – telekinesis | Fiachra Gibbons
Fiachra Gibbons: From Lufthansa to the CIA, Turkey's government has come up with some worrying conspiracy theories to explain Gezi Park

Fiachra Gibbons

13, Jul, 2013 @11:00 AM

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Erdoğan's fall from grace in Turkey is pure Shakespearean tragedy | Fiachra Gibbons

Fiachra Gibbons: Turkey's PM has become the personification of the corrupt despotism of the regime he was elected to sweep away

Fiachra Gibbons

19, Jun, 2013 @10:45 AM

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Bob Dylan 'unworthy' of the Légion d'honneur? It's time for a protest song | Fiachra Gibbons
Fiachra Gibbons: Bob Dylan's cannabis use and anti-war stance mean he's been deemed 'unworthy' of France's highest honour. But all is not lost

Fiachra Gibbons

19, May, 2013 @7:10 PM

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France's work ethic: flâneurs on the treadmill | Fiachra Gibbons

Fiachra Gibbons: A US industrialist claims the French don't want to work. In fact, the opposite is the case

Fiachra Gibbons

22, Feb, 2013 @9:30 PM

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Erdogan needs to move fast to heal Turkey's divides | Fiachra Gibbons

Fiachra Gibbons: That the funerals of the Kurdish women killed in Paris passed off peacefully is another sign that Turkey is ready for real change

Fiachra Gibbons

21, Jan, 2013 @2:45 PM

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Turks and Kurds must find an honourable way forward | Fiachra Gibbons
Fiachra Gibbons: It's time for both sides to swallow their pride and really talk peace following the latest killings of Kurdish women in Paris

Fiachra Gibbons

14, Jan, 2013 @4:23 PM

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François Hollande tells the truth – it hurts less than lies | Fiachra Gibbons

Fiachra Gibbons: By acknowledging a massacre of Algerians in Paris, the president helps France face up to the ghosts of empire

Fiachra Gibbons

19, Oct, 2012 @3:45 PM

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What kind of French republic needs the protection of Marine Le Pen? | Fiachra Gibbons
Fiachra Gibbons: Le Pen's logic sees her calling for a ban on Jewish kippas. France must escape this kind of myopic secular fundamentalism

Fiachra Gibbons

26, Sep, 2012 @9:00 AM

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Golshifteh Farahani: 'Exile from Iran is like death'

She was Iran's biggest film star. But when she bared her breast in a French video, she was banished from the country and became a lightning rod for the divisions in Iranian society

Fiachra Gibbons

06, Sep, 2012 @8:00 PM

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Alps killings fuel French soul-searching
The murders have hurt national pride, not least because they echo a 60-year old case in which a British family was killed

Fiachra Gibbons in Paris

06, Sep, 2012 @6:46 PM

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