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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

BURAK BEKDİL - The Turks are everywhere!

The Turks are everywhere!

I gazed at the tiny graffiti on the interior wall on this Greek island’s oldest tavern, Zouboulis. “The Turks are everywhere,” it said in Turkish, and signed by E.B. and E.D. on Dec. 28, 2013. I wondered why it should make someone so proud to be visiting a neighboring island as if they were on history’s first-ever successful visit to an alien galaxy. I wondered if the half-dozen or so Chinese families who run businesses on the same island ever thought of writing graffiti anywhere: “The Chinese are everywhere.” Probably not, because they really are everywhere.

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