Along with the ever-insightful Hugh Pope, I was recently a guest on the Australian Radio program "RearVision," talking about the "new" Turkey and its role in the Middle East. The show (audio and a transcript) can be found here.
A good show--I wish they had touched more on the seeming slide toward dictatorship over the past few months. With so many innocent people arrested on a variety of fancified charges--one wonders about this so called democracy
Istanbul Calling is written by Yigal Schleifer, a freelance journalist who between 2002 and 2010 was based in Istanbul, where he worked as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and the Eurasianet website, covering Turkey and the surrounding region. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Ha'aretz, The Jerusalem Report, The Times (London), The Walrus and other publications. Schleifer is currently based in Washington, D.C.
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Good listen.
A good show--I wish they had touched more on the seeming slide toward dictatorship over the past few months. With so many innocent people arrested on a variety of fancified charges--one wonders about this so called democracy
Blog on hiatus, apparently. Look forward to its return!
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