Kyrgyzstan
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‘We won’t be scared away’: Why two Irish teachers are staying in Turkey
- Generation Emigration
- August 22, 2016, 15:00
While Turkey could well be perceived as dangerous and unstable right now, two Irish teachers from Co Kildare, 27-seven-year Cathal Mahon and his girl(...)

Rising tension as Isis makes inroads in secular Kyrgyzstan
- Asia-Pacific
- August 16, 2016, 01:00
Sitting on the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains at the edge of a plain that stretches through Kazakhstan all the way to Siberia’s boreal forests t(...)

Erdogan seeks to close Kyrgyz schools and colleges linked to exiled cleric
- Asia-Pacific
- August 5, 2016, 17:59
The huge €22 million replica of Istanbul’s Blue Mosque being built by Turkey’s presidency of religious affairs in central Bishkek, 3,700km from the Tu(...)

No-guilt trips: how to travel sustainably (and still have fun)
- Travel
- June 18, 2016, 05:00
I can predict the reaction now when I tell people I am a travel writer. Ah, that is so cool, do tell more, they say smiling. Then I tell them that (...)

Latin America most dangerous place for human rights activists
- World
- January 6, 2016, 01:00
Some 157 human rights activists were killed or died in detention in 25 countries last year, according to the advocacy group Front Line Defenders. T(...)

Briton faces five years in Kyrgyzstan jail over horse penis joke
- Asia-Pacific
- January 3, 2016, 23:03
A British mine worker has reportedly been arrested in Kyrgyzstan after comparing its national dish to a horse’s penis on Facebook. Scotsman Michael (...)

Trade-route ghosts stalk East-West interzone of ex-Soviet Kyrgyz capital
- Asia-Pacific
- December 8, 2015, 01:00
The market in Bishkek is a mayhem of spices, meat and dowdy attire. You want a lock, glue or fresh pistachios? Some “atum” ground chilli or perhaps a (...)

Bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan: crime and tradition overlap
- Asia-Pacific
- December 7, 2015, 01:00
Kyrgyzstan is an Islamic former Soviet republic of 5½ million people, 800,000-odd of them in Bishkek, the capital. Ethnic Kyrgyz have a history of ho(...)

Iran to join Vienna talks on ending Syria conflict
- Middle East
- October 27, 2015, 21:32
Iran will be invited to participate in talks in Vienna on Friday to discuss ending the conflict in Syria and establishing a framework for political tr(...)

Irish Lives: Dicing with death in former Soviet territory
- Irish News
- October 10, 2015, 01:00
In the mid-1980s, Dubliner Mark Walsh, following college, was “attracted to the louche cosmopolitanism of West Berlin”, preferring to live “on a wa(...)