Today is one of those days when the questions are more striking than the answers.<\/p>\n
Do I write about the dithering Turkish Central Bank that finally overcame its indecision and did the inevitable, albeit too late and too dramatic? \u00a0Did it or did it not pay heed at the end to the interest rate lobbies?<\/p>\n
Who is this pesky Hungarian George Soros anyway?\u00a0 Could his real name be Gevorg, by any chance?<\/p>\n
What did the Prime Minister mean when he said he had other plans if the Central Bank\u2019s bitter medicine didn\u2019t work? Didn\u2019t he mention having something unusual under his sleeve, something tried and tested before- elsewhere?\u00a0\u00a0 Where is \u201celsewhere\u201d?\u00a0 Are we now turning to the east, towards the South China Seas again? Could it be the same exotic kingdom that had inspired our Foreign Minister\u2019s trouble free policies before?<\/p>\n
Is it a good place where no sinister Jewish lobbyists are allowed to exist?<\/p>\n
Can we get rid of some of our own plotters and send them there for re-education?<\/p>\n
If the Kingdom doesn\u2019t want them, can we put them all in one hall and scare them with a hologram, instead?<\/p>\n
After the friendly welcome in Brussels, weren\u2019t we back on track with the West? \u00a0Didn\u2019t we put our engagement rings back on our fingers? \u00a0If so, which planet did Monsieur Hollande came from?<\/p>\n
When did we start feeling \u201cat home\u201d, warm and cosy with Iran again?<\/p>\n
Since my last post, what else did I miss?<\/p>\n
Which foes have become the bosom friends, which old comrades have fallen from grace?<\/p>\n
Who cursed whom?<\/p>\n
Which side has scored better? \u00a0The bananas or the pineapple-lovers?\u00a0 \u00a0Is there a more fashionable fruit we should be talking about anyway?<\/p>\n
Have I neglected to check up-to- date list of the betrayal today?\u00a0 Who else has joined the long line of traitors?<\/p>\n
What is the latest score in sackings and exiles? \u00a0Of policemen, judges, prosecutors?<\/p>\n
Who listened to whom?\u00a0 Where is the next leak coming from? What did they learn from tapping the President? \u00a0God forbid, is he called Apo by his wife at home?<\/p>\n
What else has been thrown into the latest sack of legislation while we were pre-occupied with rising inflation, the next credit payment and Justin Bieber?<\/p>\n
After the journalists, bloggers, twitters, doctors and scholars, who is next in line to be muzzled? To be put in their place?<\/p>\n
As my fellow twitterer\u00a0 @kibriskarabekir\u00a0 put it brilliantly yesterday , has Turkey become\u00a0 \u201ca country where, without government permission, judges cannot \u00a0judge, police cannot arrest, doctors cannot cure and professors cannot talk\u201d?<\/p>\n
What do you think? Am I going crazy or are we all becoming insane?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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