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Meanwhile, his hard-working father, Apostolis, constantly struggles to make ends meet. He is compliant even with the most unfair of Turkish laws and ordinances, for he loves his family and his wife, and wants to stay out of trouble. Christos is, of course, completely unable to understand or appreciate this attitude...
...congratulate a mother on her just-baptised baby boy. The grandfather recounts the glory of Alexander the Great to his grandchildren, while huddled round a fire. But there are more sinister details as well. A money lender fondles Apostolis to determine what degree he will overcharge him. A Turkish merchant, terrified of Apostolis’s physical power, nevertheless professes to be unable to pay back his debt. Ottoman soldiers storm into town and viciously arrest a man for tax evasion...
...space here (and in the rest of this issue) simply listing the musicians--black and white, jazz and R. and B., rock and beyond--whom Ertegun discovered and set free as prime mover of Atlantic Records. Just as impressive is the tale of a son of the Turkish ambassador to the U.S. who fell in love with black music and co-founded a label that helped Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin redefine American pop. The terrific photos in this handsome, 8-lb. tome induce a vivid synesthesia: looking at Ertegun's artists, you can hear, on the jukebox...
...deep, and many of those hurt by unemployment and rising prices are looking for someone to voice their woes. Some argue that getting the buses to run on time and water from the reservoirs to the taps in a city like Istanbul, home to nearly a fifth of the Turkish population, is good training for running the country at large. Erdogan was born and raised in that city, and he acquired a reputation as an able and honest administrator with the common touch...
...minarets and bayonets but of "making moral values a pillar of modern administration."; The Islamic rhetoric of seven years ago is gone. He presents demands, like permission for women to wear Islamic headscarves at universities, not as threats to the secular state but as basic rights. Even so, a Turkish establishment that includes the army still suspects his moderation is just fa?ade. Other critics say he's too provincial to reform Turkey and lead it into the E.U. His reply, still to be tested, is that no one else can persuade ordinary Turks that these goals are within their reach...