It's been just over two months since Turkey, along with neighbouring Syria, was hit by two devastating earthquakes. More than 50,000 people died and over 3 million others have been displaced. It could take years before the country has replenished its destroyed housing stock. And in Nazi Germany, the white rose group thought of themselves as the nation's conscience but to Nazi leaders, they were propagandists spreading treasonous leaflets.
It will be years until the country recovers from February’s devastating earthquakes—but progress toward that goal will determine whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins another mandate next month. Oft-overlooked data suggest that Africa’s baby boom is slowing, in a “demographic transition” the world has seen before. And remembering Traute Lafrenz, the last leafleter of the “White Rose” Nazi resistance.
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