tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post1039800192980202226..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: The EU's Catch-22 for TurkeyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-30194689319112011282008-07-03T14:04:00.000-04:002008-07-03T14:04:00.000-04:00Things are heating up in Turkey. Yesterday's Fina...Things are heating up in Turkey. Yesterday's Financial Times had a front page story on the arrest of 24 persons in Turkey, including two senior retired generals, for plotting a coup to overthrow the Turkish government. I can say that when I walked by the military compound near the conference site, I sensed the soldiers there to be not in the least relaxed or particularly friendly. The Fin Times says that political stability in Turkey is over for some period to come.<BR/><BR/>Barkleyrosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-26780037751207582122008-07-01T18:34:00.000-04:002008-07-01T18:34:00.000-04:00tim,Point well taken. I don't know for sure. The...tim,<BR/><BR/>Point well taken. I don't know for sure. They simply looked intelligent and sophisticated with reasonably sophisticated and intelligent males in tow with them. But maybe they are all just ignorant airheads, and the older ones can recite the Collected Essays of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.<BR/><BR/>BTW, there is a small minority of clearly more radically Islamist people one sees, the men with Osama type beards and non-western clothing with the women in full, black clothing with veils and the works.<BR/><BR/>Barkleyrosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-44184879001614843032008-07-01T17:31:00.000-04:002008-07-01T17:31:00.000-04:00How do you judge if someone looks well educated? ...How do you judge if someone looks well educated? Stylish and sleek, sure, that you can see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com