George Mason University

Peggy Agouris, an award-winning scholar and researcher and dean of the College of Science at George Mason University, has been selected as William & Mary University's sixth provost, according to a recent announcement by the university's president.

Turkey's Kurdish issue is often framed simply as "Turkish military vs. Kurdish militants." Since the collapse of the peace process last summer, hundreds of soldiers, militants and innocent civilians have been killed and hundreds of thousands of locals displaced from their homes. Since 1980 tens of thousands have died and swathes of southeastern Anatolia have been militarized.

'Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey: Transforming Ethnic Conflict' by Mustafa Gurbuz (Amsterdam University Press, 206 pages, $99)

The story happened on the other side of the pond, but its indirect relevance with cash-strapped Greece is noteworthy. Danny Chasteen was the ‘unlucky’ man to win the lottery in the State of Illinois.

Violence that erupted in Turkey?s southeast before and after the recent election has raised fears of a return to widespread clashes between affiliates of the Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) and Hizbullah, an outlawed Kurdish Islamist militant group.