There is a Turkish song, "I don't like Istanbul at all anymore" in which a lover laments the lost love. And that reflects my current state of mind. The city that graced the shores of the Bosphorus for centuries, bridging east and west, the melting … [Read more...] about The Raping of Istanbul, and Elsewhere
Archives for November 2015
Capitol Shopping Mall
They Love English Jan and I visited the nearby Capitol Shopping Mall to look around and pick up a few souvenirs yesterday. The first thing that struck me, and Jan too, that the mall looked very much like the malls around us in the US. This, in and … [Read more...] about Capitol Shopping Mall
Istanbul 2015
Every time I visit Istanbul I find many things that have changed. Since my last visit in 2012 it is hard not to notice the obsession with "towers" in all corners of the city. The soaring minarets have been replaced with taller, much taller, but not … [Read more...] about Istanbul 2015