The Slow Road to Tehran Quotes

“The incongruity between their listless apathy on the one hand and their overloaded artillery belts on the other feels both comical and sinister; Turkey is swiftly making the transition from conservative semi-democracy to autarchic security state, and even the most parochial of greenhorn patrolmen is now dressed like the Praetorian Guard.”
― Rebecca Lowe, The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East