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Yikes! 'Singaporification' of Turkey makes geopolitical tourist analyst hacks look like Nobel prizewinners. Some stuff is not like other stuff - http://pawel
by RockyMcNuts 13y ago
Yikes! 'Singaporification' of Turkey makes geopolitical tourist analyst hacks look like Nobel prizewinners.
Some stuff is not like other stuff -
http://pawelmorski.com/2013/06/02/turkey-some-stuff-isnt-very-similar-to-other-stuff/ http://pawelmorski.com/2013/06/02/turkey-some-stuff-isnt-ver...
This is messy and local and not understandable through pie-in-the-sky comparisons and metaphors and abstractions (or by reading clippings-job 'intelligence services', ZeroHedge-meets-Mossad-reject conspiracy theorists, or the propaganda plants of every Middle Eastern talking-point mill)
Just read TFA and ignore the out-of-body hallucinatory comments.
Hugh Pope is also pretty good
http://hughpope.com/2013/06/01/a-ringside-seat-as-istanbul-protests/ http://hughpope.com/2013/06/01/a-ringside-seat-as-istanbul-p...
- RockyMcNuts 13y agoThis is also some pretty good background http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/12/120312fa_fact_filkins?currentPage=all http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/12/120312fa_fact_...