Prompted by the New York Times reporting that North Korea may have gotten some of its best missile technology from a factory in Ukraine, I realized there was a longstanding gap in my understanding […]
The last few years have seen a resurgence of attention paid to the importance of Armenian, its use and continued viability, especially in the Diaspora and with a bit more emphasis on the Western […]
Yup, that’s what Rick’s askin’ fer. You probably wouldn’t recognize the man based on behavior when compared with his Wikipedia biography, where the introductory paragraph reads: “Rick Joseph Caruso (born Jan. 7, 1959) is an […]
I was catching up on some reading when I ran a cross a news item from late march of this year. It seems one Mehmet Erdoğan, an AKP member of Turkey’s Parliament, claimed that if […]
Turkey’s on a dam binge, again. Building, that is. It seems 22 more are slated to be built. So, why write about this? Many of the rivers being stopped up rise in the Armenian Highlands, […]
Inside, Turkey is a mess. Corruption is, though I suspect un(der)reported, once again fully present. Ended is the honeymoon of this century’s first decade when Turkish citizens thought they had brought to power a political […]
For clarity, I’ll state that the discussion is about soccer, known as football to all the world except in the U.S. I’ve never been a fan of watching sports. My eyes glaze over when people […]
The Turks, in their various tribal incarnations, hit the Middle Eastern scene about 1,000 years ago. Since then, they don’t seem to have learned much. Despite massive forced Turkification of indigenous populations; despite massive theft/borrowing […]
Yesterday, I was talking to a friend when a question posed prompted this topic of discussion. I’d been stuck, with no good ideas for this week’s piece, so I owe a debt of gratitude for […]
I’m no anthropologist, historian, linguist, or sociologist. I do know how to watch and listen, and have for over four decades (and longer if you count grandmother stories). So, I’m going to allow myself to […]
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