Scott McGough walks to the dugout as a member of the Miami Marlins in 2015. Lauren hoped they’d get close enough to have Scott, a pitcher for the U.S. baseball team, wave at them from across Tokyo Bay. “That’s about as much Olympic fun as any family member will be having, I guess,” Lauren McGough said. Scott McGough is in …
On a Tuesday afternoon a decade ago, a few dozen Syrians gathered in Damascus’ Old Quarter calling for an end to the 40-year Assad dynasty. “We didn’t succeed in bringing down the regime,” Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, a prominent Syrian writer and longtime opponent of Assad’s government, said in a recent interview over the social media app Clubhouse. “There’s a Syrian …
The economy, the Syrian crisis and air defence will be among the top priorities of the Erdogan administration. Last week, Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak unveiled the administration’s plan for structural transformation, which places emphasis on strengthening Turkey’s free market economy, implementing tax reforms and promoting a more just distribution of wealth. Over the past few years, Turkey partially …
