Is Turkey to the east looking west, or already in the west looking east?
David O'Byrne in Istanbul
April 26, 2013
The problem with clichés is that while glib reductionism can often result in trite or inaccurate generalizations, they can equally as often offer a neat summary of an altogether more complex idea. So it is with Turkey, the oft-lauded "bridge between east and west", a country "at a crossroads", "with one foot on both continents", which – depending on your point of view – is either "to the east looking west", or less often "already in the west and looking east".
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