A New Middle East Can Be Seen Through the Teargas of Istanbul
In the comfortable residential streets near Istanbul’s protest-scarred Taksim Square, you won’t see a lot of Islamic headscarves. You’ll see people drinking beer on patios, and inside the expensive, crumbling apartments are portraits of Kemal Ataturk, the secular revolutionary who founded modern Turkey in the 1920s, and almost none of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the economically [...]
