Alev Scott
Autore di Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire
Opere di Alev Scott
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- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 138
- Popolarità
- #148,171
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 12
- Preferito da
- 1
But Turks were pretty open about their dissatisfaction with their current national leader and his government.
In this book, Alev Scott helps me understand why.
But she does much more to give me the “head space” that animates Turks today.
She helps me understand Turks feelings about what membership in the EU would mean to Turks, who are the rich and who are the poor, and where does religious observance fit into their lives.
Again, I’m sorry to say, I have a few minor quibbles. Scott castigates the Turkish as a nation of copiers, and on the one hand I completely agree. I purchased a ripoff suitcase at a bazaar that lasted not even one day of minor flights by Turkish Airlines before two of the three handles broke off and the wheels stopped working.
However, Scott complains that Turks have not designed a new car since the 1980’s. That may be, but my own home country, Canada, is in a similar boat, as are about 100 other countries. Car and cellphone manufacturing is dominated by industrial giants. It’s no great shame nor surprise that a developing country like Turkey doesn’t do it. But times could change.
I also found Scott sometimes using an amateur psychologizing as a shorthand to explain things she doesn’t want to spend time understanding.… (altro)