Dutch is the native language of more than twenty million people in Europe: fifteen million in the Netherlands and nearly six million in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium). Some tens of thousands of people in French Flanders (in north-western France) still speak a Dutch dialect. Outside Europe, ...
Gecekondu settlements-or shanty towns-in large Turkish cities are mostly populated by low-income families, many of which have migrated from the villages of Central Anatolia. The rise of the Islamist party AKP in the 1990s and 2000s had a large impact on how these gecekondus are examined, and how they ...
