In one of his vitriolic reactions to the revolts in Taksim Square, the Turkish Prime Minister rhetorically asked: “When did the feet become the head?” He had characterized the protesters as looters from the beginning. He ultimately depicted them as an underclass striving to wrest power from the rulers. There are, in fact, revolutionary left-wing … Continue reading »
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Steve Jobs: ‘We’re just one world now’
Along with half the world, it seems, I picked up Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs this winter break. I never expected him to talk about Turkey, where I happen to be stationed for the next seven months. Jobs remarked: “I had a real revelation… All day I had looked at young people in Istanbul. … Continue reading »