Turkey used to be a model state. So what went wrong?
In Bodrum’s marina, yachts anchor next to the flimsy rubber boats that take refugees across the three-mile (4.8km) stretch of sea to Greece and Europe. Two worlds coexist, largely oblivious of one another. On a recent night, as the yachts swayed gently and disco music wafted out from the bars along the harbour, a Turkish coastguard vessel, working with a team of volunteer divers, brought in 95 refugees, mostly Syrian, whose boat had capsized in the Aegean. The scene seemed to sum up in a startling way our era of disruption, of wealth, violence and chaos, where leisure and suffering can cohabit in strange ways, where the news headlines are all about terrorist acts or the drowning of children, but where acts of extraordinary generosity go unnoticed.
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