"Janissaries Versus the Storm Troopers
With Turkey knocking, Europe will lose if it doesn't drop old games.
By Elif Shafak, Elif Shafak, a professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of Arizona, is of Turkish descent. Her first novel in English, 'The Saint of Incipient Insanities,' was just published by Farrar, Str
'You be the Turk and I'll be Storm Trooper X-G,' shrieked my friend's 13-year-old son, Sinan, just as I was bringing in another tray full of food to the room where he and his buddy had been camped out since early morning. 'You take the cannonball, I'll get the Galaxy Gun.'
'I want the Galaxy Gun too,' objected Reinaldo, his skinny friend with the very long reddish hair. 'The Turk wants technology too!' "
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