Turkey, once described as “baffling”, has now become “unintelligible”. Looking from outside, it is hard to fathom how Turkey’s leaders could remain so oblivious to the fact that their policies are . . .
Archives for February 2017
Torching Turkey’s art and culture
A few months ago, a university student from Florida interviewed me about my career in journalism. Right at the end, he wanted to know which news story that I had reported on that affected me the . . .
Turkey is getting ‘curiouser and curiouser’
“Where shall I begin? -Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end”. So goes the line from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland. These days, recounting real life stories about . . .
Turkey’s economy needs more oversight, not less
Whatever you may think of him, Mr. Erdogan knows how to boost and consolidate his power. Transformation of the country’s regime from a parliamentary democracy to an executive presidency has reached . . .