I’ve been to Istanbul several times and once drove a thousand miles across Turkey (to Iraq) and back, but I’m hardly an expert on Turkish politics. I’ve only read a handful of books about the country and have never interviewed anyone there. Turkey, for me, has been a place I passed through to and from other parts of the greater Middle East. So I’m a bit reluctant to write much about the apparently massive resistance Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is facing right now, not just in Istanbul...
Published on June 12, 2013 12:58