Photographer Giorgos Moutafis in Istanbul: “…despite the intense fighting, protesters are not retreating.” See more of Moutafis’s images from Turkey: http://nyr.kr/11e3RrD

But even if no one is ever convicted of pulling the trigger that day in Paris, the murders are an important moment in Kurdish-Turkish relations, carrying the issue across oceans, and clarifying a few key components along the way.

Jenna Krajeski on the murder of three Kurdish women in women in Paris: http://nyr.kr/YqxucE

Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty

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Will Bashar al-Assad use chemical weapons against his own people? Jon Lee Anderson on why the international community should pay attention to the Syrian sarin threat: http://nyr.kr/TL3h15

Photograph by Moises Saman/Magnum.

Jenna Krajeski on the end of the Kurdish hunger strike in Turkish prisons, and the possibility of making gains with non-violence: It’s “a victory for both sides, especially as both come out looking more humane: the government because it negotiated before people began to die, and the P.K.K. because it engaged in a successful nonviolent protest… Fighting intensifies the stand-off, making negotiations more difficult… And Turkey needs negotiations.” Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/QtceP4

Photograph by Serra Akcan/NarPhotos/Redux.

Cartoon by Mike Twohy. For more: http://nyr.kr/QKqrIp

Will Turkey go to war with Syria? Jenna Krajeski on recent events that have increased tension between the former allies: http://nyr.kr/VppHow

Photograph: Akcakale, Turkey, on October 3rd. Anatolia/AP

More than two hundred thousand Syrian families have fled their country to escape the ongoing bloodshed that began in March of last year, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, most of them seeking refuge in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq. Among the photographers who have captured the plight of these Syrians in their new settings are Shawn Baldwin and Ayman Oghanna, each of whom has documented refugee camps along the Syrian-Turkish border.

Click-through for more from Faisal Sabbagh Baldwin and Oghanna, and to see a selection of their photographs: http://nyr.kr/S9gouB

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A leftovers cartoon by Liza Donnelly (2007)

A 2008 Thanksgiving cover by Harry Bliss

Turkey Shoot

This week’s Goings On About Town section opens with Gabriele Stabile’s photograph of turkeys roaming the grounds of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. Stone Barns raises two types of turkeys, and the ones that appear in these photographs, Bourbon Reds, are a heritage breed—according to the farm, “the livestock equivalent of an ‘heirloom’ vegetable.”

Stabile knew going in that there was a chance the turkeys would peck at him. “Thankfully, most of them liked me,” he said. The feeling was mutual: Stabile told me he had planned on “killing a bird” for Thanksgiving, but couldn’t bring himself to do it after meeting them up close.