Skip to main content

EurasiaNet Civil Society - Turkey: Religious Minorities Watch Closely as Election Day Approaches


EurasiaNet Civil Society - Turkey: Religious Minorities Watch Closely as Election Day Approaches:

"The Princes’ Islands, a small archipelago about an hour’s ferry ride from Istanbul, are perhaps the last remnant of the city’s cosmopolitan past. The summer home of a large part of Istanbul’s Armenian, Greek and Jewish communities, the islands are one of the few places in Turkey where you can still hear Ladino and Greek spoken on the street."

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Broken Spring?       : Information Clearing House

Broken Spring?       : Information Clearing House This is a sequel to my June 2011 article, ‘After the spring’, on the upheavals in the Arab world. It is an article that has been painful to write, because it brings bad tidings and offers a pessimistic analysis of the upheavals, at least in the short term, in a number of Arab countries. The outcomes and potential outcomes of these uprisings have also acquired new, very significant dimensions. These include a complex entanglement with the accelerated preparations for a possible attack on Iran, and a poisonous, sectarian aspect that could have the consequence of ripping Syria and the Middle East apart.