Amir

Turkey's National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar met on Sept. 16 with his Iranian counterpart Amir Hatami in the capital Ankara.

Five years after presenting "Amid the Clouds," award-winning Iranian director and dramatist Amir Reza Koohestani returns to the Onassis Cultural Center with a "devastatingly pared-down work that explores the Kafkaesque reality of life" in his homeland.

Ameer Mehtr could not afford to pay smugglers to take him from Turkey to Greece so the Syrian refugee swam across in swirling currents, defeating high waves and exhausting circumstances. Swimming the eight kilometer stretch to Europe took a total of seven and a half hours.