On Bassa Selim’s west-eastern divan Turkey’s beverage market
In December EU leaders must decide at a summit meeting if the European Union should open membership talks with Turkey early next year. Orient or occident, Islam or secularism, market control or liberalism - even Raki or beer, Coke or Cola Turka: In the current debate over why Europe should say yes to Turkey, many seemingly disparate issues suddenly acquire political significance.
Scottish orchestra with an American conductor, Turkish singers and a Swiss-born actor performing an opera sung in German at Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace before an audience of Turkish music lovers: In our days of globalisation multicultural musical productions, which bring together artists from all over the world, are quite the norm. This production, however, begged to differ. He sets the four lovers free. .
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