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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

In Turkey, it is better to be sorry than safe – again - BURAK BEKDİL

In Turkey, it is better to be sorry than safe – again

Turkey’s leaders often boast that their country has a big and quickly growing economy and a big population. That criteria never makes a country a decent place to live in. That explains why most Turkish expats are scattered through Europe’s tiny countries instead of Bangladesh or Egypt. And why, of course, Turkey ranks 69th in the UNDP’s Human Development Index, behind all of Europe’s smaller countries with slowing economies.

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