Leader of Imperialism

There’s not too much protest against Obama’s visit to Turkey today and tomorrow, but the small groups of protestors are afraid that Obama has come with a ‘secret agenda’ to pressure Turkey to send combat troops to Afghanistan. To an outsider it might sound weird, a ‘secret agenda’, but the terminology doesn’t surprise me at all. Among some groups in …

Harem

That I would ever come to love Harem bus station (the biggest bus station on the Anatolian side of İstanbul) is sort of a miracle. The first time I was there – on the way to cover this story – I was totally overwhelmed by the shouting of the guys trying to sell tickets, the people sitting …